Is Qatar, That Built Hamas's Empire of Terrorism, An Honest Broker?

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Is Qatar, That Built Hamas's Empire of Terrorism, An Honest Broker?

If the ruler of Qatar really wanted to end the hostage saga, all he has to do is issue an ultimatum to Hamas that if the hostages are not released within, say, 48 hours, he will expel all the Hamas leaders who are still in Qatar and stop funding and

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• If the ruler of Qatar really wanted to end the hostage saga, all he has to do is issue an ultimatum to Hamas that if the hostages are not released within, say, 48 hours, he will expel all the Hamas leaders who are still in Qatar and stop funding and providing political support to the group. Arab dictators are not known to be merciful toward those who defy them.
• Apparently, Qatar does not feel that it is under any pressure from the Biden administration to end the ordeal of the hostages.
• If Hamas released the hostages and laid down its weapons, the war would end tomorrow. However, with Biden and Blinken handling both Iran and Hamas's patrons in Qatar with kid gloves, Doha and Tehran have no reason whatever to stop it.
• The Biden administration is evidently continuing to pretend that Qatar, the Gulf state that funds and sponsors Hamas, is an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Qatar, in addition to the billions of dollars it has been pouring on Hamas, is still hosting several leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist terror group, whose members, on October 7, 2023, beheaded, raped, tortured, burned alive more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more.
  
  Not only is Qatar far from being a neutral mediator, it is massively biased in favor of Hamas and other Islamist terror groups, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria.
  
  Qatar's Al-Jazeera Arabic-language television channel has long served as a central platform for actively promoting the messages of Hamas and other Iranian terror proxies in the Middle East.

 

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• If the ruler of Qatar really wanted to end the hostage saga, all he has to do is issue an ultimatum to Hamas that if the hostages are not released within, say, 48 hours, he will expel all the Hamas leaders who are still in Qatar and stop funding and providing political support to the group. Arab dictators are not known to be merciful toward those who defy them.
• Apparently, Qatar does not feel that it is under any pressure from the Biden administration to end the ordeal of the hostages.
• If Hamas released the hostages and laid down its weapons, the war would end tomorrow. However, with Biden and Blinken handling both Iran and Hamas's patrons in Qatar with kid gloves, Doha and Tehran have no reason whatever to stop it.
• The Biden administration is evidently continuing to pretend that Qatar, the Gulf state that funds and sponsors Hamas, is an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Qatar, in addition to the billions of dollars it has been pouring on Hamas, is still hosting several leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist terror group, whose members, on October 7, 2023, beheaded, raped, tortured, burned alive more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped hundreds more.
  
  Not only is Qatar far from being a neutral mediator, it is massively biased in favor of Hamas and other Islamist terror groups, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria.
  
  Qatar's Al-Jazeera Arabic-language television channel has long served as a central platform for actively promoting the messages of Hamas and other Iranian terror proxies in the Middle East.

As a regular visitor to Al Jazeerah, it is quite obvious from their article choices and use of words like Martyrs and Resistance when referring to Hamas which side they are on. Also, they have become quite boring in their obsession with the Gaza conflict as if nothing else was going on in the world.

That said the Al Udeid Air Base is one of the largest in the Middle East, Doha port services American warships and there are about 8000 American troops in the country. So it seems that the elites there do love to play both sides and no doubt make a lot of money out of doing so while also guaranteeing their security by their alliance with the USA.

They also sent vast amounts of money to Hamas since 2018 with the consent of the Israeli government, ostensibly to avert a humanitarian crisis caused by rivalry between the PLO and Hamas. Israel liked the idea as part of its divide-and-conquer policy of keeping the Palestinian factions at war with each other.

Verbally they appear to be a bunch of terrorists but the picture presented by their actions is more of a middleman in a mirky world. So maybe they are the best guys for the job of mediation here.