Former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of exploiting the ongoing Iran war to reshape the Middle East and advance a long-term plan for a 'Greater Israel.' In an interview with Al Jazeera’s program 'Al Muqabala,' he said the conflict was not accidental and claimed Netanyahu had long sought to draw the United States into confrontation with Tehran since the 1990s, convincing Washington that the war would be short and lead to Iran’s regime collapse.

Sheikh Hamad criticized overreliance on U.S. military power and said a diplomatic initiative led by Oman earlier this year could have prevented the crisis. He warned that the most dangerous outcome of the war is the Hormuz Strait crisis, as Iran now treats the waterway as sovereign territory and uses it as a weapon, posing a major threat to the global economy. He also alleged that Iran’s attacks on Gulf infrastructure under the guise of targeting U.S. bases have cost Tehran regional support.

He proposed forming a 'Gulf NATO' with Saudi Arabia as its backbone and urged regional cooperation with Turkey and Pakistan. Sheikh Hamad also condemned Israeli actions in Gaza as a moral and political disaster and praised Saudi Arabia’s refusal to normalize ties with Israel without a clear Palestinian statehood commitment.