Israel: By embracing Hamas, Qatar threw peace under the bus

Qatar is a long time supported of the MB and Hamas. It is also very close with the US administration. Obama wanted to bring Hamas in from the cold from day one and this is his way of doing it. Ted Belman

Qatari emir, first national leader to visit blockaded Gaza since Hamas seized power in 2005, announces $400 million donation toward rehabilitating Gaza • Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says money will entrench Gaza deeper in corruption, hate and wastefulness.

News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned a visit by the emir of Qatar to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, saying that by embracing Hamas, Qatar “threw peace under the bus.”

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani received a hero’s welcome when he arrived in Gaza on Tuesday as the first national leader to visit the blockaded enclave since Hamas seized power in 2007. After much fanfare involving flags, posters and songs, the Qatari leader announced that he would donate $400 million to rehabilitating Gaza.

“This money will only entrench its recipients deeper in corruption, hate and wastefulness,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. “It will accentuate the serious obstacles posed by Hamas to the Palestinian issue. You could say that Qatar threw peace under the bus.”

During his visit, the emir, who is rare among Arab rulers in having met senior Israeli officials, denounced Israel’s policies and praised people in Gaza for standing up to it with “bare chests” — but he also urged rival Palestinian leaders to abandon their feuds.

The landmark visit highlighted the tumultuous changes that have swept the region during the Arab Spring events over the past two years, pushing once-shunned Islamic movements to the forefront of Middle East politics. Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf state, has encouraged these changes by backing efforts for the ouster of secular regimes.

The emir, who has long sought a role in Palestinian politics, appeared to be seizing an opportunity created by Hamas’ break in recent months with its ally Syria. In return for Tuesday’s stamp of recognition, the emir may use his leverage to lure Hamas hardliners in Gaza away from their longtime patron Iran, the regional rival of Qatar and other Sunni Muslim-led states.

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  1. Just so that I give you an idea about how anti-Semitic is Israel coverage in the Greek Press, I’ll cite an example drawn from Greece’s best-selling (and most moderate) daily, “TA NEA”.

    The newspaper hails the Qatari 400 million package to Hamas with the title:

    “He broke the embargo”, referring to the emir of Qatar.

    The article informs us that the emir offered “a substantial economic relief to an area that has sunk into abject poverty due to the Israeli embargo” – no mention though about the fact that Israelis drink the blood of Gazan youngsters, the reporter must have missed that.

    The article continues:

    “The 400 million dollars will be allocated to the improvement of Gaza infrastructure”.

    Therefore the Israelis have nothing to worry about. Since the Greek reporter is saying that the money will not buy rockets for the terrorists, everything is fine

  2. Egypt re-annexes Gaza:

    Israeli Negev bedouin, Sinai bedouin, Gazans and Egyptian arabs are all the same people.

    Egypt, led by Nasser, annexed Gaza from 1948 until 1967, when Jewish Israel defeated Egypt, and ejected them from Gaza. Until then, the Gazans had been quite happy as part of Egypt.

    Jewish Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. Supposedly, Jewish Israel “completely” blockaded Gaza. However, Jewish Israel handed the border between Gaza and Israel over to Egypt, pretending that Egypt would help enforce the Israeli blockade. The Egypt-Gaza border ran through the town of Rafah. The people on one side of the border were “Egyptians”, and the same people who found themselves on the other side of the border, were “Palestinians”.

    The Palestinians built enormous smuggling tunnels under the border; and the Egyptians, naturally, turned a blind eye.

    Hamas evicted the incompetent and corrupt Palestinian Authority from Gaza in 2007, and took complete control. None of us knew it, but this was the beginning of the “Arab Spring”.

    The Jew-hating useful idiots in America and the EU thought the Arab spring would lead to an enlightened democratic arab utopia. Instead, it is leading to a Jew-hating, shiite-hating, sunni arab superstate, which will be composed of all the arab states in North Africa, Egypt, “palestine”, the arabian peninsula, Jordan, and Syria. Only arab shiite Iraq will be excluded.

    As part of this process, the Muslim Brotherhood has taken control of Egypt. Since Hamas is merely the Gazan/ Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt is now in the process of annexing Gaza once again.

    Implications for Jewish Israel: the sunni super-state will be large and populous; however it will be dirt-poor and populated by a basically low-IQ people (Saudi oil money will not be enough to go around, so the Saudis will not want to share the money). Jewish Israel, as a high-IQ people, will be able to incorporate much of the West Bank and become a fortress, with effective barriers on the borders, high-tech weapons, and nuclear bombs to keep the primitive, savage, muslim barbarians outside the gates. This will be achieved even more readily if Jewish Israel does indeed find abundant natural gas off its coast.

    Future wars between the Jew-hating arab savages and Jewish Israel are inevitable, as islam demands the destruction the Jewish State. These wars will require an ever greater amount of destruction of arab property (Germany and Japan in World War Two) to deter the arabs, until they rebuild, and start a new round.

  3. Simply bomb a minimum of $1 billion $10 billion $100 billion worth of Gazan ground assets – just for starters.