This is an act of war that in a sane world would bring Qatar international opprobrium, sanctions, and more. In our world, Qatar is probably in line to get an commendation from the UN.
“‘Qatar is Hamas’: Doha under fire for training Hamas terrorists,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, February 23, 2024:
A shocking new report by the Middle East Media Research Institute revealed that Qatar’s authoritarian state trained Hamas operatives at the country’s police college as recently as 2023.
According to the early February MEMRI report, “Qatar – which is known for supporting Hamas, financing its military activity and sheltering its leaders, and for extending media support to Hamas by means of its Al-Jazeera channel – also trained, in its Police College in Al-Rayyan, officers from Hamas’ Interior and National Security Ministry, which is part of Hamas’ governing authorities in the Gaza Strip.”…
Qatar is currently functioning as a mediator in an effort to secure the release of the over 130 hostages held by Hamas in Qatar. Israeli officials and MKs have been largely reluctant to comment on the Qatari regime’s role in funneling over $2 billion into Hamas’ coffers over the last ten years due to the hostage release talks.
Training Hamas in Qatar
The training of Hamas operatives in Qatar took place long after Hamas was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the US and the European Union.MEMRI wrote “Hamas officers were routinely sent to train at this college, which recently produced its sixth class of graduates, and were received with great honor upon their return to the Gaza Strip”
Rich Goldberg, a member of the National Security Council during the Trump administration, told the Jerusalem Post ”This is certainly further evidence to support a designation of Qatar as a state sponsor of terrorism.” Goldberg testified in Congress in late October about Qatar’s alleged role in sponsoring Islamist terrorism.
Yigal Carmon, the president and founder of MEMRI, told the Post that “Qatar is Hamas and Hamas is Qatar.”…
Pray Hard says
Imagine that.
OLD GUY says
Well but of course, they are Islam/muslims.
Pray Hard says
Why do we keep calling them houthis, hamas, isis, al qaeda, etc.? They’re MOSLEMS!
Shema says
I do think sunni/shia should be a good dividing line. None get the a bomb but each gets to slaughter as many as the other as possible.
The west will tacitly support the shia, until they go a little overboard and then we switch to sunni. Once they are both equal let them Duke it out.
maria says
Yes they are all murderers
Peter WF says
Qatar has one very strange statistic – in the 15 to 65 age group there are 326 men per 100 women according to the UN 2023. The birth rate is about 50 / 50. So where are the other 226 female births, out of the 326 male and 326 (100=326-226) female births? Search “statisticstimes men per 100 women by country”. The World Bank 2017 figure is not far from the same figure.
marc says
that is odd, is it foreign workers or “refugees” similar to the Hamas rats that couldn’t find a safe tunnel in Gaza?