Qatar funding Hamas death cult

Washington Times:

Palestinian officials yesterday said Hamas is receiving millions of dollars from the Gulf state of Qatar, some of which they suspect is used to purchase weapons.

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Palestinian Authority officials, however, said that oil-rich Qatar has been such a staunch supporter and promoter of Hamas — both financially and politically — that it is in a unique position to influence the Hamas leadership.

"Qatar gives Hamas millions of dollars a month [on average]," a senior aide to Mr. Abbas told The Washington Times on the sidelines of the Rice-Abbas meetings in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "They say the money is for the people of Gaza, but Hamas steals it, and some of it may be used to buy weapons."

In fact, the aide noted, Qatar has much more money to spare than Syria and Iran, both of which are also strong backers of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

A second Palestinian official said that Qatar has not been shy in declaring its political support for Hamas and that it regularly hosts the group's leaders in the capital, Doha. Qatar also has offered repeatedly to broker a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, this official said.

Qatar hosts one of the largest pre-positioning bases for the American military outside of the United States, with warehousing and storage facilities for a heavy armored U.S. Army brigade and the U.S. Air Force, according to globalsecurity.org.

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. directed much of the air war from a command center in Qatar.

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The article gives no real explanation for why Qatar is supporting the Hamas death cult. It has apparently tried to get them into the "peace" talks also which is pretty strange when you consider that Hamas has expressed nothing but contempt for any peace agreement with Israel. If Qatar were really interested in a Palestinian peace agreement it would work on the destruction of Hamas, not on supporting it. Hamas has been desperately trying to stop any agreement since its inception. It has been responsible for killing the efforts since the Bush administration took office. The recent escalation of rocket attacks into Israel was calculated to stop the current negotiations and appears to have achieved that objective.