Published on, Sept. 18 -- September 18, 2025 6:24 AM

The emergency conclave in Doha was billed as a defining moment. Israel's strike on Qatari soil jolted the region, exposing both the fragility of sovereignty and the hollowness of the guarantees Gulf capitals once believed shielded them. For once, Arab and Islamic foreign ministers seemed poised to act with one voice. Yet when the dust settled, all that emerged was another communique of lofty rhetoric and little else.

This pattern is depressingly familiar. The Muslim world's premier multilateral platform has, for decades, excelled at issuing declarations that vanish into diplomatic ether. Doha was no different. Delegates spoke of deterrence, but the final resolution stopped well short ...