Clues point to tacit support from Jordan and Saudi Arabia, despite their public protests.
We are still learning details about Israel’s daring, unprecedented attack on Hamas leaders in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The fact that the attack happened at all without being reported or opposed by neighboring states, though, speaks volumes about the true reach of Israel’s alliances, tacit or explicit, in the Middle East.
A simple glance at a map underscores how difficult the Israeli attack was to pull off. Doha lies on the Persian Gulf, more than 1,000 miles by air from Jerusalem. That’s farther from Israel than Tehran is, and Israel’s ability to repeatedly strike the Iranian capital from the air this ...
