Qatar—remember that state
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A Bad Press
Al Jazeera just published details from hacked information about IDF and IAF personnel found on the Dark Web. (No, it was not leaked; it was hacked.) This will greatly help Chamas terrorists and ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists around the world to target Israelis who defended their country.
In Gaza, it took its marching orders from Chamas, directing the Qatari State-run media outlet on what to cover and what Palestinian-Gazan dissent to suppress. No surprises here, but now it’s proven in a document found by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
This explains the value of Al Jazeera’s campaign ‘Israel kills journalists.’ A ‘journalist’ in Gaza with a machine gun is a terrorist, not a reporter.
I still discern ‘journalists’ lying for Chamas from intimidated reporters. In Arabic, Al Jazeera is Chamas’s propaganda wing, unrelated to journalism.
Yet don’t tell me that Muslim Al Jazeera poisoned Western public opinion against Israel. There are far more Christians than Muslims in the world, especially in the West. So the real culprits are the lying Jew-haters who control the Internet, the international news media, and their national collaborators. And just as the Jews didn’t lose World War II—the Gentiles in the West did, morally—Israel hasn’t lost the information war. There are billions of Christians, yet some of their leaders have the audacity to say that tiny Israel failed to explain itself to the world. Where are they?
Chamas Is Qatar
Meanwhile, Qatar is fortifying Chamas’s grip on the Strip—the very opposite of what should happen now. When Israel objects, we are bad? Without disarming them, after the IDF withdrawal, they play: We won.
In the meantime, in a not-unusual move meant to pretend ‘impartiality,’ Qatar’s Emir criticized Israel for ‘violating its sovereignty’ for its botched assassination attempt of Chamas’s top negotiators last month, no doubt to offset Qatar’s cozying up to Trump. For poise, he also panned Iran for the same ‘crime.’ He called it State-terrorism—the greatest chutzpah from the main financier of Chamas. Going after terrorists internationally is not terrorism, like women criticizing men for sexism are not sexist.
Don’t Trust Them
In an unparalleled move (a faux pas, if you ask me), Trump granted Qatar an unprecedented US security guarantee, including a US military response in the event of another attack (by Israel) on it.
To add insult (to common sense and decency) to (terrorist) injury, Trump agreed to have the US build Qatar an Air Force facility in Idaho with Qatari F-15s and pilots ‘to enhance our combined training, increase lethality, and interoperability.’ I kid you not. This, no doubt, is to safeguard the largest US military installation in the Middle East, situated in … Qatar.
As almost always, Trump’s sole interest is big money. This is true for his friends, too. Allegedly, while Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff (‘Everyone likes Steve’), was negotiating the ceasefire between Israel and Chamas, his New York real estate development company was privately courting a four-billion-dollar real estate development fund from sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
But when the Emir of Qatar and the King of the US join forces, where does that leave Israel?! A leopard can’t change its spots (after Jeremiah 13:23). Qatar is, with Iran, one of the world’s largest and deadliest State-sponsors of terrorism, and Trump’s a capitalist. Netanyahu is one of the few Israeli politicians not so naïve as to confuse Trump’s friendship with trusting him.
Unsurprisingly, Qatar may have tried secretly to influence Israel’s politics. Israel’s press fixated on which Israelis lobbied for or were bribed by Qatar, but paid precious little attention to the scandal that Qatar tried this.
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