September 9th, 2025

On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, why is our stated ally, Qatar, continuing to protect the leadership of Hamas? Qatar cannot and must not provide safe harbor to Hamas’s top terrorist monsters and expect that the nation and people they terrorize — Israel and the Jews — will sit still for it.  Qatar funds terrorism, it helped unleash 9/11 by protecting the would-be ringleader, it funds terror-supporting front groups in the United States and poisons our colleges and universities with their money.  It owns Democrat and Republican politicians and lobbyists, spreads its money into legitimate businesses and sports groups. Hamas ordered the latest terrorist attack on Israeli citizens yesterday in Jerusalem.  A bus filled with passengers was stormed and people were mowed down with automatic weapons.  And they did this during the course of yet more negotiations for the release of the Israeli hostages after 701 days.  Does anyone think for a second that if Hamas murdered Americans on a bus in Washington, DC, and their terror bosses in Qatar were sitting in Qatar, protected by that regime that also funded Hamas, that we would put up with this?  No way. Also, It is a tragedy that Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska was murdered by a deranged lunatic who had 14 prior arrests. If Democrats would keep their cities safe, support law enforcement and keep criminals in jail, this would have never happened.  Lastly, ICE agents are continuing to be attacked by the left by implementing fear mongering, claiming that they are disappearing people. Border Czar Tom Homan pushed back against misleading narratives about ICE enforcement that Mika Brzezinski claimed.  Afterward, Ken Griffin is wrong about the Fed and President Trump is right to criticize it. He appears to disagree with Trump’s agenda in significant ways.  Of course, that is his right.  But as for his defense of the Fed, and its independence, and the president’s denunciation of fed policy – he’s wrong.  Finally, Sen Tim Scott calls in to discuss his new book, One Nation Always Under God: Profiles in Christian Courage. He explains that America without faith is an America in decline.

Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu cites Jerusalem terror attack as reason for Qatar strike

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811.  877-381-3811. You know, America, thank you for being here. We’re going to cut through all the crap, all the media crap, the press release crap, all the chest beating crap. Yesterday. In the morning in Jerusalem, a bus full of commuters and two Palestinian terrorists got on the bus with automatic weapons and shot everybody they could. Killing six, wounding 21. Hamas took credit for this. They took credit for it. And in fact, it’s very public out there. The statement that Hamas put out. We congratulate the qualitative heroic operation carried out by two Palestinian resistance fighters at the junction of the Ramat settlement north of occupied Jerusalem. We affirm that this operation is a natural response to the occupation’s crimes and the genocide war is waging against our people. It is a clear message that it plans to occupy and destroy the city of Gaza and desecrate Al-Aqsa mosque will not pass without punishment. Nobody is talking about desecrating any mosque, Al-Aqsa mosque. And now the leaders are basically in two countries of Hamas, Turkey and Qatar. Turkey and Qatar. Now we’ve spent years explaining here in this microphone and on Fox and on Blaze that Qatar is a terror state. It is a terrorist state. It was the bigger biggest funder of Hamas. That Hamas leadership has been given safe haven in Qatar for decades. And they are billionaires. Some of them have moved to Turkey. Where they’re protected. The administration claims Turkey is an ally and Qatar is an ally. The prior administration. Turkey ally, Qatar ally. KSM, the mastermind behind 911. And that anniversary’s coming up on Thursday, I remind you. Was given safe haven. In Qatar, but the Qatar royal family. Before the 911 attack. He was on the FBI’s list as a grave danger. The FBI was on his trail. The Qatari royal family gave him an apartment. A job sold out. Money was a phony job. A money. And then when our FBI informed Qatar that we were going to come into that country and seize KSM. They helped him escape. From where he plotted 911. Many of the riots and violence you’ve seen in our colleges and streets. Many of the organizations have been funded directly and indirectly by Qatar. The anti-American and anti-Semitic movements on our college campuses have been funded most prominently by Qatar. Qatar also buys up sporting events and sporting teams. They buy a businesses. They buy a politician’s former politicians as lobbyists. They pay off the loans of certain individuals. And by up there, bad notes. And they spent an enormous amount of money in this country buying up. Business influence political influence on both parties. And trying to come off as sort of a Western Arab country. It’s nothing of the sort. Qatar has given aid and comfort to the Taliban. Qatar has given support to the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatar wants the overthrow of the West. It’s called Safia. We’ve talked about fear. Giving the impression that it is among us when it is the enemy within. I’ve been watching the news reports, including on friendly newscasts. And not a single one of them mentioned that Qatar was giving safe harbor to the Hamas terrorist leaders. It mentioned that Israel had targeted them. But it never mentioned that Qatar had protected them. And Qatar. Funded Hamas more than any other country. More than any other country. Including October 7th. You must ask yourself, over the years, both the Republican and Democrat administrations, how can such a hideous monarchy? Be considered an ally. They’re a mediator, don’t you know? They’re trying to bring back the the Israeli hostages. Well, they’ve done a damn poor job of it. But they’re playing both sides and everybody knows it. They’re telling Hamas to resist while they’re putting out public statements telling our State Department. That they’re doing everything they can to convince Hamas. Why are the leaders of Hamas in Qatar? Why are they there? Netanyahu has upset the negotiations. Qatar. Attacked. A bus filled with Israelis in Jerusalem in the morning. I should say Hamas did. While they’re based in Qatar. What of that? Now I’m hearing something else that’s very precious. Qatar is a sovereign country. How dare you try and kill these terrorist leaders in a sovereign country? Pakistan is a sovereign country. And I hear while Qatar’s an ally. Pakistan is an ally. Did we not send special forces into Pakistan? To take out Osama bin Laden while he was being protected by the Pakistani military. The answer is yes, we did. I don’t remember any talk about Pakistan being a sovereign country. How ridiculous is that? How preposterous is that? And then. We’re told that we are negotiating. A defense arrangement with Qatar. A defense arrangement with Qatar. We already have a base there for some insane reason. But a defense arrangement with Qatar. Well, have we told Qatar no more funding of terrorism? Have we told Qatar no more support for Hamas? Have we told Qatar to give up the leadership of Hamas and turn them over so they can be prosecuted for war crimes? Have we told Qatar to stop trying to destroy the state of Israel? We told them to stop funding Marxist Islamist forces in the United States and seek to overthrow our country. Then we can talk about a defense agreement. But none of that is on the table. None of it. None of it. This is a bipartisan problem. Me ask you a question. Ladies and gentlemen, let me ask you a question. And by the way, Hamas has murdered Americans. They have American blood on their hands. They have Israeli blood on their hands. They have a lot of blood on their hands. And so does Qatar. Qatar’s 911 blood on its hands. How quickly we dismiss what happened on 911. I wonder what the 911 families think of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, two fantastic countries. They just they just want peace, that’s all. Just peace. I wonder. I wonder. About the firefighters. The police officers and their unions and their foundations, I wonder. How about the families? The people who went to work in those two towers. I wonder. About the families of the individuals who went on a flight. And the terrorist took over the plane. A Captain Burlingame. Was in charge when they murdered him in the cockpit and then fluid into the Pentagon. I wonder what those families think. I wonder what the families think. Whose members? Were murdered. Who fought heroically in central Pennsylvania. What do they think about Qatar? Giving protection. Protection to Kassem. The day that the Israelis play victim is long over. I heard one reporter say Israel’s opened yet an eighth front. Another front. Israel’s opened another front. Hamas, their leadership is in Doha, Qatar, for all to see. And they order another attack on the Israelis in Jerusalem in the middle of Jerusalem on a bus. Let me ask you a question. If Qatar. We’re protecting Hamas leadership and Hamas leadership. Had ordered a slaughter of Americans on a bus in Washington, D.C.. Which has been federalized. Would we stand still for that and say, wait a minute, they’re in Qatar at the sovereign country, We don’t want to open up another front? Of course not. We would find that leadership and we would do exactly what the Israelis did or attempt to anyway. So we gave. The guitar is a heads up. So the question is, did the Qataris give the Hamas leaders a heads up? It’s a question being asked by everybody. Who is too? Who’s got common sense in this? Did our allies, the countries, tell the leading terrorists of Hamas? Just like the Qataris when the FBI told them we wanted KSM. Helped him escape. Did Qatar help the Hamas leaders escape yet? Did they or didn’t they? It’s a simple question. I haven’t heard that in the news media either. Friendly news media and the usual hateful news media. Haven’t heard a word about that. Did they or didn’t they? The Qataris should have turned them over to us or the Israelis or somebody. A long time ago. As war criminals. I don’t want to hear this sovereign country crap when we went into Pakistan and we should have. I don’t want to hear this ally crap. They’re no ally. Pakistan is an ally, but we went in there anyway. So I don’t want to hear that crap. And we will fight here behind this microphone against any military defense arrangement with Qatar until Qatar ceases to be a terrorist state, funding terrorism, funding Marxism, Islamism and the overthrow of our country and our universities and many of these front groups. And it till it stops. Working with the Taliban. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
There’s a lot I don’t comprehend about this guitar stuff. I really don’t. I’ve got report after report. I’ve used it here. I’ve used it elsewhere. The billions and billions of dollars this country is pouring into terrorism around the world. Terrorism that has affected us directly killed thousands of Americans. How they’re trying to overthrow the West in our country with these front groups. I don’t care how many golf leagues they’re involved in. I don’t care how many sporting events. I don’t care how many businesses they buy, how many politicians they buy, like Jim Moran and the rest of them. And he’s not alone. He’s just one. He’s just one. And they’re mediating. Now, think about this for 2 minutes. They’re the mediators, they in Egypt, but they’re the primary mediators between Israel and Hamas when they’ve been funding Hamas to slaughter Israelis. Now, does that make sense? Is that what we would do? Is that what we do? Well, we go to the Taliban and ask them to be mediators for us in the matter. Does that make sense to anybody? No, it doesn’t make any sense. This whole thing doesn’t make any sense. So basically the leadership of Hamas. They can order as many hits on Israel, as many slaughter of Israeli citizens as they want. But whatever you do, don’t kill them because they’re hiding and protected in Qatar. Our ally, don’t you know? We’ll be right back.

Segment 3
The tone of the reporting is so sickening. I agree 100% with those calling on Qatar to immediately turn over the Hamas leaders they are protecting. To our government, her prosecution of war crimes against our citizens and others. I mean, truth be told, they should be surrendering to us for what they did to us on 911. But I agree with those calling on Qatar to immediately turn over the Hamas leaders They are protecting to our government for prosecution of war crimes against our citizens and others. These are the modern day Nazis. Now. Our country and others. Pursued the Nazis to the end of the earth. They hold them accountable. To hold them accountable. To prosecute them. I expect none of that from Europe. Europe has been conquered. Europe embraces the modern day Nazis. The Islamists, the terrorists. You and I, we do not. We do not. And unexpected guitar lessons of the world to agree with us, but they’re irrelevancies. There are gnats on an elephant’s ass. So I’m talking about this with real Americans, patriotic Americans. Those. I join those calling on Qatar. Which is funding terrorism, which is funding Hamas allied with the Taliban. Funding the radical anti-American anti-Semitism movement in our own country. Funding Madonna’s mother for years with millions of dollars. I call on Qatar? And that we pressured Qatar to immediately turn over these Hamas leaders, if any, survived, if Qatar didn’t protect them when they were tipped off. The Qatar government funded them, protected them. And I am calling on us to pressure them on them to give us these Hamas leaders to be prosecuted by our attorney general at the behest of our secretary of state for war crimes against our citizens. They have killed American citizens. They have taken American citizens hostage. As well as our ally, Israel, and other allies whose citizens they have taken and killed. Now, why shouldn’t that be done? Oh, I’m sorry. They were hit in their sovereign territory. They’re a sovereign country. Every country is sovereign. They were hit not because they’re a sovereign country. But because they protect. The Hamas leadership, which is still putting out orders to commit acts of terrorism. If the Israelis had not been attacked again yesterday in their capital. Then there wouldn’t have been a targeted hit. In Qatar against Hamas. And I repeat, can you imagine? Can you imagine if Qatar was harboring Hamas leadership or something akin to that and they gave the order. The slaughter Americans. In public transportation in Washington, D.C. on a bus when the bus is full of American and other citizens in other. You can’t go after their leaders in Qatar. Qatar’s a sovereign country. And then to hear this moron reporter tonight say and. Israel has opened up another front. Israel was just attacked. Buy that front. We all are well aware of this. We all are well aware of this. Benjamin Netanyahu at the embassy event in Jerusalem today. This embassy event in Jerusalem today was at the American embassy sponsored by our wonderful ambassador, Mike Huckabee. It was a delay of the Americans in Israel and the Israeli celebrating July 4th, our Independence Day, obviously. Which was delayed because of the war with Iran. And the Prime Minister wanted to be very much involved, as my understanding, and he was there. And this is what he said. Cut one. Go. At noon today, I convened the heads of Israel’s security organizations and authorized a surgical precision strike on the terrorist chiefs of Hamas. These are the same terrorists who planned terrorist chiefs who planned, launched and celebrated the horrific massacres of October 7th, the burning of babies, over 250 hostages, innocent hostages, grandmothers, grandchildren, Holocaust survivors. And they perpetrated the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Now, they were meeting in the same place, exactly the same where they celebrated this savagery almost two years ago. At the beginning of the war, I promised that Israel would reach those who perpetrated this horror. And today, Israel and I have kept that promise. Now much of the world, much of the world, including much of the democratic world or governments at least have shamefully, shamefully forgotten October seven. But I don’t forget, and Israel will never forget. There was a time when Jews could be murdered with impunity. But since the founding of the state of Israel, those days are over. And on this day, as in previous days, Israel acted wholly independently, wholly independently. And we take full responsibility for this action. And what he clearly is saying there and I have no inside information, no, I have not talked to anybody, the president, the prime minister, the ambassador, my stepson, nobody. And I don’t. You saying they’re going to tax somebody for this? I’m the prime minister of Israel. You can attack me. Carolyn Leavitt at the White House briefing today. Cut to ago. This morning, the Trump administration was notified by the United States military that as Israel was attacking Hamas, which very unfortunately was located in a section of Doha, the capital of. Hold on, hold on, Hold on. So what did we say to Qatar about the leadership of Hamas being, unfortunately located in their capital? Did we say anything? Like, what are they doing there? What what are the leaders of Hamas, these monsters who still control these hostages? What are they doing in your capital? And sound like we did. Go ahead. Inside Qatar, a sovereign nation and close ally of the United States. Well, you know what? So was Pakistan when we killed bin Laden. Sovereign nation and close ally of the United States. And we didn’t tell the Pakistani government or military because the Pakistani government was protecting bin Laden, just like the Qataris are protecting Hamas. Go ahead. Going very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker peace does not advance Israel or America’s goals. However, eliminating Hamas, who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza, is a worthy goal of eliminating Hamas’s leaders. Who are in charge. Is that a worthy goal? And if it’s a worthy goal, why does Qatar protect them? Why hasn’t Qatar turned them over to the United States for prosecution of the murder of American citizens? I think these are common sense questions and that a single reporter in that room raised one, not one. Go ahead mediately directed Special Envoy Metcalf to inform the Qataris of the impending attack, which he did. So when he informed when Wyckoff informed the Qataris of the impending attack. What did the Qataris do? What did they do with the Hamas leadership? Did they tip him off them off like they way they did KSM? To strike another day, which he did horribly on 911. What happened to the Hamas leaders. When the caterers were tipped off. Isn’t that an important question, Mr. Producer? I would think. Anybody curious about that? Go ahead. Just Qatar as a strong ally and friend of the United States and feels very but it’s not a strong ally and friend of Israel. They’ve been funding Hamas to kill Israelis, to destroy Israel, and they’ve been protecting the leaders of Hamas who continue even during these, quote unquote, negotiations to direct terrorist acts against Israel. So they’re not an ally, a friend of the state of Israel. Are they? Go ahead. Question I would question whether a friend or ally of ours since are funding much of the mayhem at our colleges and universities and the propaganda even through K through 12 now. Billions and billions of dollars. And our colleges and universities, you know, they’re not like a philanthropic organization, a charity that’s just giving us money because they love our school. They’re an ally. Go ahead. President Trump wants all of the hostages in Gaza and the bodies of the dead released. And we can get them out. Qatar. Qatar helped create. Hamas funded Hamas, strategized with Hamas. They’re bravely the mediators. It seemed to me that Qatar could get those hostages out if they were really serious about it. They’re playing both sides. We all know it. Everybody knows. Go ahead to end now. President Trump also spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu after the attack. The prime minister told President Trump that he wants to make peace and quickly. President Trump believes this unfortunate incident could serve as an opportunity for peace. The president also spoke to the sad thing. In my humble opinion, if it can serve as an opportunity for peace, it’s not that unfortunate, is it, Mr. Producer? We shall see. Go ahead. Prime Minister of Qatar, and thank them for their support and friendship to our country. He assured them that such a thing will not happen again on their soil. To be clear, the president disagrees with the location of the strike and that he passed that along to the Prime Minister to see this is the best the reporters can do. Attack Israel. Netanyahu. They were just attacked. You know, America, we saw something horrific on that bus in Charlotte, North Carolina, with that goon, stabbed that young lady to death in broad daylight on that bus. And we are rightly furious about this. Furious about this. What the hell happened? How can this happen? Criticizing the governor, criticizing the mayor. They all deserve it. Criticizing the press. What a joke. What a joke. Here. You have a bus in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, people minding their own business. Two Palestinian terrorists at the direction of the Hamas leadership, which is based in Qatar. Directing them to go on the bus with true automatic weapons and slaughter as many human beings as possible. You have a boss who gives their their families pensions $400 a month for the rest of their life. And you have Hamas, the leadership that is protected by Qatar and apparently the Israelis. Netanyahu, the prime minister, is supposed to sit on his hands and woe is me. We bring the National Guard into Washington, D.C., because we’ve had enough of this domestic crime, haven’t we? We try and export criminals that come into our country illegally, and we should. We back ice. We bashed on that back the National Guard. We are disgusted by weak on crime mayors and city councils by Soros prosecutors and activist judges. We are disgusted by what they’re doing to our country. Can you imagine? If a foreign country was harboring terrorists. That slaughtered our people. And. Attack the bus in Washington, D.C.. And then the response is, well, you can’t touch them because it’s a sovereign country and they’re an ally. I have no. Reason to understand why Qatar’s an ally. None. When it is funding, you overthrow the United States of America. Oh, we can fund. You know, department stores like it does and and sports teams like it does and events like it does and and contribute. Believe it or not, to the Medal of Honor Museum. $5 million. This is a facade. Because the West doesn’t understand these people. I do. I do. I’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Now here’s Jack Reed. Crazy ass Democrat senator from Rhode Island. Listen to this guy. Cat three Go. This attack was extraordinarily disruptive of whatever peace process, even one that was very faltering. I think it was a signal by Netanyahu that he really does not want an agreement with Israel was attacked by a terrorist attack from Hamas at a Doha, Qatar, yesterday. And this dumb ass is going on about how Netanyahu doesn’t want peace. He does want an agreement. So they’re supposed to negotiate with these leaders who are in Doha, Qatar, Qatar, mediating along with the Egyptians, pretend this didn’t happen and just keep negotiating rather than taking these guys out for the terrorists. Am I losing my mind, Mr. Producer? What the hell’s going on here? We wouldn’t put up with this for 2 seconds, nor should we. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. This jackass, Jack Reed, you don’t even know what’s going on. Oh, it’s worse. We got Brennan, we’ve got the media, we’ve got other Democrats. It’s unbelievable. Unbelievable. Look what he did. He disrupted the peace negotiation. They just murdered six and wounded 21 in a terrorist attack. Orders given by Hamas. The leaders are in Qatar. I’ll be right back.