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| Why Does Qatar Support Hamas? |
| 2014-09-17 |
| [IsraelTimes] It was the first Persian Gulf state to establish ties with Israel, the first to welcome Israeli students and the only one to allow direct dialing to Israel. Israeli athletes shine on its courts. Now Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... is on the outs with Israel because of its embrace of another regional pariah: Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 I wondered why Qatar accepted the Taliban Gitmo detainees as well as supporting Hamas. One account states: Qataris have a different relationship with the Taliban than does the U.S. Afghanistan is not their war. These men and their families are fellow Muslims. And Qatar sees the latest prisoner swap as a humanitarian gesture Source. It may be that simple. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-17 14:33 |
| #3 Qatar has a history of trying to be the alternate power in the Islamic sphere of influence (Turkey and the Sauds being the other two.) On occasion they get smacked down by the Magic Kingdom, as when they backed the MB in Egypt. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-09-17 13:38 |
| #2 Because Hamas and Qatar are Muslims? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-17 13:12 |
| #1 Appears to be the same reason Obama and company support Hamas: fear |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-09-17 12:16 |