Saudi media love to highlight news of Israeli contacts with Qatar. Qatar, of course, loves to normalize relations with Israel to appease the US. When I met with the Amir of Qatar three years ago, I asked him about those contacts, and he downplayed them to me. But he did not deny that he is pushed by the US Congress to elevate relations with Israel. I salute New TV for criticizing the Amir of Qatar for meeting with Shimon Peres; they reminded him of Qana I massacre. I saw the footage of the meeting between the Amir and Peres and realized that he sat on the same chair that I sat on. (New TV's owner, Tahsin Khayyat has many business connections in Qatar).