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2022-11-16 Arabia
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Hosting Hamas and Taliban, negotiating ceasefires: Qatar’s outsized, contrarian role
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[IsraelTimes] Tiny, gas-rich host of 2022 soccer World Cup has mediated in conflicts far afield, from Afghanistan to Israel and the Paleostinians, while often providing conduit for US diplomacy
For decades, Doha has flung open its doors to Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
warlords, Islamist murderous Moslems and dissidents, African rebel commanders and exiles of every stripe.
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Now, the tiny emirate is receiving extra scrutiny as it welcomes over a million soccer fans from around the world for the 2022 World Cup.
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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
’s quest for global influence ranges wide and runs deep. Flush with gas billions, the country has sought to mediate conflicts far afield but its brazen stances have also sparked diplomatic conflict back home.
Three Gulf Arab neighbors, along with Egypt, severed ties with Doha in 2017, accusing it of financing terrorism and harboring runaway dissidents.
Qatar denies the charges, but there’s no doubt the emirate has pursued contrarian policies.
Here’s a look at the country’s outsized role in diplomacy around the world.
ISRAEL AND THE PALEOSTINIAN TERRITORIES
Qatar openly provides a base for leaders of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the Paleostinian terror group that rules the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip. After the 2007 split between feuding Paleostinian factions Fatah and Hamas, Qatar sought to mediate an end to the — still ongoing — rivalry. Doha also has low-level ties with Israel, cooperating with the country to provide badly needed aid to impoverished, blockaded Gaza.
The Qatari payments to Gaza have been used to buy fuel, pay civil servants’ salaries and provide cash to needy families. Qatar has also been key to negotiating cease-fires between Israel and Hamas that have restored calm after four wars — the most recent in 2021 — as well as countless smaller skirmishes.
AFGHANISTAN
The Taliban opened a political office in Doha in 2013, with Washington’s consent. The forces of Evil made their home in the stylish capital. Qatar’s Islamist leanings and close ties with the group ultimately proved vital as Doha played host to American diplomats and Taliban officials seeking to end America’s longest war.
Amid the United States’ frantic airlift out of Kabul last year, Qatar stepped up again. It received nearly half of all Afghan and American evacuees — more than any other country, winning praise from US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
. Now, Qatar has a key role as interlocutor between Afghanistan’s new rulers and the West.
REFUGE FOR ISLAMISTS
Unlike its Gulf Arab neighbors, Qatar is sympathetic to political Islam. In the early days of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, it bet on Islamists across the region. In Egypt, Qatar and its Al Jazeera satellite news network backed the former democratically elected but divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
president who hailed from the Moslem Brüderbund. After the military-backed ouster of Mohammed Morsi, Qatar gave his supporters sanctuary.
Qatar also backed powerful Islamist militias as wars erupted in Libya and Syria. That triggered accusations that Qatar was bankrolling terrorists. But Doha’s ties with turban groups have sometimes proved important to the West, which has used them to negotiate hostage releases in countries like Syria.
While Qatar enjoys a reputation as a safe haven for Islamic turbans and other assorted strays, it has seen violence in the past. Former Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who was living in exile in Doha, was killed in a boom-mobileing in 2004.
CHAD
Qatar has served as a mediator between Chad’s military government and rebel groups as the African nation struggles with the aftermath of the 2021 killing of its longtime President Idriss Deby Itno, who had ruled the country since 1990. Deby’s 38-year-old son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, now leads the junta.
In August, Chad signed a pledge in Qatar with over 40 rebel groups and opposition figures ahead of planned national reconciliation talks. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, the main rebel group in the country blamed for killing Deby’s father, did not sign the pledge. It remains unclear if the pledge will be enough to ensure the success of the talks as a planned 18-month transition from military rule to democracy winds down.
Elsewhere in Africa, Qatar helped mediate an end to a diplomatic standoff last year between Kenya and Somalia, which were at odds over several issues, including oil-rich waters in the Indian Ocean.
IRAN
Qatar sits just across the Persian Gulf from Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
and shares its massive offshore natural gas field with Tehran. That has required Doha to maintain good relations with the Islamic Theocratic Republic . While Oman has long served as an intermediary between the US and Iran, Qatar recently hosted indirect talks between Iran and America over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal. Its high-level ties also see brass hats from both countries hold telephone conversations amid the nuclear negotiations. Al Jazeera covers Iran intensely and often sympathetically.
Separately, Qatar has beefed up its own military and hosts the forward headquarters of the US military’s Central Command 
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