QATAR PERSPECTIVE

Qatar covers India's crisis with acute awareness of its own role: the country is one of India's main LPG suppliers, and the Strait of Hormuz closure blocks its own exports. Al Jazeera English devotes extensive coverage to Indian household suffering, with empathetic reports from Delhi slums and Rajasthan villages. Al Jazeera English's pluralist tone contrasts with the Arabic version, more focused on Middle East war victims.

The Peninsula, Qatar's official daily, reports on Doha's diplomatic efforts to find logistics solutions: Qatar is exploring alternative export routes via Oman and the Bab el-Mandeb strait, bypassing Hormuz. The Qatar News Agency highlights Qatar's mediator role in the crisis, recalling the diplomatic expertise gained from Hamas-Israel negotiations and the Taliban deal.

The rivalry with Saudi Arabia is subtly present: while Riyadh highlights its missile interceptions, Doha positions itself as the mediator seeking solutions, not military victories. The 2017-2021 blockade by the Saudis and Emiratis is recalled between the lines: Qatar knows what it means to be cut off from supply routes.

Al Jazeera Arabic is more direct, qualifying the war as an 'American-Israeli war on Iran' and emphasizing that Arab peoples and developing countries pay the price of Western and Zionist expansionism.