This explains much!-----Qatar: The hidden enemy - American Thinker

Qatar is a small country of less than 5,000 square miles that wields enormous power due to its immense wealth, with which it has bought off politicians throughout Western Europe and North America.  - Joseph Puder 

...According to Dr. Udi Levy, former head of the Mossad’s Unit of Economic War against Terror, “Qatar has conquered Europe” and has great influence on some of the richest people in the U.S., many of them Jews, who lobby for this terror-supporting authoritarian regime...

• It also owns, among many soccer clubs in Europe, the premier French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain. Qatar owns the French department store chain Printemps and numerous luxury hotels in London, including the Ritz and Claridge...
• Qatar is heavily invested in giant German corporations such as Siemens, Volkswagen, Porsche, and Deutsche Bank. Qatar has a stake in London’s Heathrow Airport, Barclay’s Bank, and the Sainsbury supermarket chain in the U.K. 
• In addition, most of the senior European politicians have been bought off by the Qataris, and the Qataris are doing the same in America.
• The Qatari regime utilizes its controlled medium Al Jazeera (in English and Arabic) to defame Israel and promote Hamas