David M. Weinberg
Jerusalem Post, Apr. 13, 2024
“But had Qatar wanted to pressure Hamas into a hostage release deal, it might have, for example, threatened to expel Hamas leaders from Doha or cut off their funding. There is no indication that Sheikh Al Thani has even contemplated this.”
According to unassailable and well-reported Israeli and American intelligence estimates, the monarchy of Qatar has provided at least $2 billion to its Muslim Brotherhood affiliate Hamas in recent years.
The vast majority of this funding has been invested in building terror attack tunnels and manufacturing rockets and missiles for war against Israel.
But you would not know this from reading The Jerusalem Post last Friday. Instead, 7,000 words of reporting from the capital of Qatar by this newspaper’s editor-in-chief would have you believe that “the humanitarian aid” and financial support Qatar has provided to the Gazans is “commonly misinterpreted.”
Qatar’s billions for Gaza, according to the Post, “often labeled as aid to Hamas,” has in fact “been actions taken at the request of the Israeli and US governments, targeted specifically at the poorest families in Gaza” and “meticulously coordinated” with the IDF Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to reach them.
All this is designed, so Qatar says, to “foster dialogue rather than support Hamas ideologies and actions.”
The Post even offers its readers a lengthy primer in Qatari mathematical chicanery, to wit $10 million a month flows from Doha to poor families in Gaza, $20m. a month is dedicated to purchasing fuel for Gaza, and $35m. is transferred monthly to pay the salaries of supposedly more acceptable Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in Gaza (none of whom actually work in government in Gaza).
The Post does not bother to do the elementary math which would expose the millions more lavished on Hamas’s military.
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