Qatar on Friday decried Israel’s plans to expand illegal settlements and replace East Jerusalem’s Palestinian character with a Jewish-Israeli one. The comments by Doha’s foreign ministry came the day after a new far-right Israeli government, led by a returning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was sworn in. The coalition’s policy guidelines, released ahead of its assuming power, said the government will “advance and develop settlement” in areas including the occupied West Bank. “The State of Qatar expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli government’s plans for settlem…