Even if in Israel there are those who doubt Qatar's intentions to bring about an agreement in Gaza, at least outwardly it is trying and maintaining a dialogue with Israel.
But as I have already written here in the past, there is a Gulf country that is portrayed as more extreme than Qatar - Oman and is not just mentioned as a candidate to take in the leaders of Hamas if they leave Qatar.
At the end of the week, Khalifa Al Kharthi, Deputy Foreign Minister of Oman, said that his country will not normalize relations with Israel. He claimed that Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel in recent years only harmed the main goal - the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Over the weekend, an Omani beach soccer team won praise in their country after withdrawing from a tournament in Italy because they were assigned to play an Israeli team.
