OPINION – Israel, Qatar, USIn 2022, the men’s football World Cup was held, somewhat controversially, in the Gulf state of Qatar. It is breathtaking to think that not even three years later, that club membership has completely failed to protect Qatar from aggression by Israel. Streets that were so recently bustling with excitement about the World Cup are now reduced to wartime chaos. Imperialist strainsThe bombing of Doha is an atrocity amongst very many in Israel’s ever-expanding war. There was an accepted doctrine since the end of World War Two that being broadly in line with US foreign policy meant that you were safe from American military power.