Hamad AL-Thani

حمد آل ثاني

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Unbearable

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

I was always stunned by the lunacy of the Abraham Accords from an Emirati perspective.

The UAE's conflict with Iran is far more resolvable than Israel's conflict with Iran. By joining the Abraham Accords and explicitly becoming a member of Israel's anti-Iran bloc, the UAE essentially attached itself to Israel's conflict with Iran - even though Israel is 1000 miles from Iran, while the UAE is only 50 miles from Iran's shores.

The UAE made itself a frontline state in Israel's fight with Iran.

Abu Dhabi is now paying the price for this mistake. Geography is ensuring that the key decisions are made elsewhere - while it pays the highest price.

[TRT World @trtworld]

Israeli soldiers torture a one-year-old child in Gaza, including burning his leg with a cigarette and inserting a nail into his leg, according to a report, to pressure his father to make confessions
https://t.co/v0be37LwpV

[Andy Critchlow @baldersdale]

The only infographic you need on Qatar LNG and Ras Laffan.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

This 🇬🇧 unfortunately confirms the picture of a Trump 🇺🇸 rush to war without any threat or any diplomatic option.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Why is the strait closed? Once we figure that out, should be fairly easy to re-open it

[The Middle East @A_M_R_M1]

🚨 BREAKING: Iranian media released anime-style footage said to depict the final moments of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei before his assassination.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇮🇷 Iran continues to commit war crime-level trolling.

From the Iranian Embassy in the Hague.

[K.L @kinglinzhuhui]

A survey by the Pew Research Center found that in the 24 countries surveyed, more than half of the people in 20 countries have a negative view of Israel.
The top three countries are:
Turkey🇹🇷 ：93%
Indonesia🇮🇩：79%
Japan🇯🇵 ：79%

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

Netanyahu in three frames:
To Iranians, he speaks of “freedom”.
To Americans, he warns of Iran's “nuclear threat".
To his Zionist audience, he calls Iranians "Amaleks".
Deception based on the geography of the audience!

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

“You’ve found me at a very Chinese time of my life”

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

OMG who made this 😭😂🤣

[Nawaf M. Al Thani نواف بن مبارك آل ثاني @NawafAlThani]

Well .. While you’re shivering in a basement shelter waiting for the next siren 🤣

I’m on my porch sipping karak tea, watching our brave men and women take down every last one of those. That’s how it feels.

How’d you like them apples?

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🚨 Fifty-one schoolgirls were killed and 60 were injured when a strike destroyed a girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, Iranian media has reported

Follow the latest ⬇️
https://t.co/okQc7Buhe0

[South China Morning Post @SCMPNews]

North Korea’s capital is in the midst of a massive construction boom building a new city district some have called “Pyonghattan”.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇦🇪 Epstein Files Rock the UAE’s Elite

A UAE online influencer is seen in a new video urging followers not to engage with the “Epstein Island scandals.” A good Muslim, he says, ignores gossip, doesn’t repeat everything he hears, and stays silent so falsehood dies. Interacting with the content only feeds the algorithm. Bury it and move on.

The fallout is already significant. Reporting by Drop Site and other outlets, drawing on recently surfaced leaks and the DOJ’s 2026 release of the Epstein files, is shaking the UAE’s corporate credibility and exposing elite backchannels that operated out of public view.

Here’s what to know:

▪️ DP World shake-up: Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigned as chairman and CEO on Feb. 13 after emails revealed extensive contact with Epstein, including a 2009 message referencing a “torture video.” Canada’s CDPQ suspended future investments pending clarification.

▪️ Strategic normalization role: Drop Site reporting shows Epstein helped cultivate early UAE-Israel commercial and political ties years before the Abraham Accords, using his network to connect Emirati and Israeli elites behind closed doors.

▪️ Diplomatic scrutiny: UAE diplomat Hind Al-Owais faced backlash over emails discussing introducing her 13-year-old sister to Epstein’s circle.

▪️Separate disclosures that fragments of the Kaaba’s Kiswa (from Islam’s holiest site) were allegedly shipped to Epstein’s Florida estate in 2017 also sparked outrage. A photo included in the disclosures shows Epstein and bin Sulayem examining a piece of the Kiswa laid out on the ground.

▪️ Backchannels exposed: Files show Epstein discussing with bin Sulayem meetings the latter had with figures such as Vladimir Putin and David Cameron. Epstein also had had insight into sensitive Gulf political discussions, including UAE-Qatar tensions.

Read Drop Site’s reports from Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain linked below.

[Hamad AL-Thani @bokhalid_99]

Drop Site is the best independent news source.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ MUNICH | Palestinian political leader Mustafa Barghouti challenged the panel at the Munich Security Conference to answer who will hold Israel accountable for daily ceasefire violations, and how Trump’s new political body can be called a “Board of ‘Peace’” if it includes Israel’s prime minister (who was indicted by the ICC for war crimes), and “not a single Palestinian.”

The EU’s top foreign affairs minister, Kaja Kallas, replied that “nobody should be above the law,” saying that if international rules are breached, “you should also be held accountable, whoever you are.”

Yet the EU-Israel Association Agreement — which contains a human rights clause (Article 2) allowing suspension in case of violations — has not been enforced. Despite internal EU findings that Israel may be breaching its obligations, the bloc has failed to act. Sanctions have targeted a handful of “violent settlers” and figures like Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, but not the broader military and state structures responsible for mass murder and mass destruction in Gaza.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said “obviously it’s not a ceasefire if the guns haven’t ceased,” adding that “even if the killing has stopped, the dying hasn’t.” In reality, roughly 600 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,600 injured since the mid-October ceasefire announcement in continued Israeli strikes and shootings across Gaza.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz butted in, claiming more than 4,000 trucks per week have entered Gaza since Sharm el-Sheikh, adding “it’s not enough.” UN data shows closer to roughly 250 trucks per week — not 4,000.

@MustafaBarghou1 | @kajakallas | @KSAmofaEN | @USAmbUN

[الشيخ أحمد بن محمد بن ثاني @ALTHANI1905]

24 أبريل 1963م | برقية الشيخ فالح بن ناصر الأحمد آل ثاني التي بعثها إلى الرئيس جمال عبد الناصر بمناسبة قيام الجمهورية ا��عربية المتحدة:
من الشيخ فالح بن ناصر آل ثاني: "أهنئكم بوحدة الأقطار العربية الثلاثة في الجمهورية العربية المتحدة بقيادتكم الحكيمة؛ أمل الأحرار في الوطن العربي لتحقيق الوحدة الكبرى، وللقضاء على إسرائيل، وعلى العملاء. والعرب في الخليج العربي يباركون ميلاد الدولة الجديدة، ويفدونها بكل عزيز، فإلى الأمام والله معكم".
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[Hamad AL-Thani @bokhalid_99]

@dlicps @salut3478__ We were missing a striker Almoez ali he’s the second most important player.