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On October 18, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on ten “key Hamas terrorist and financial facilitators in Gaza and elsewhere including Sudan, Türkiye, Algeria, and Qatar.” Only ten? What about the rest?
The absence of the Islamic Republic of Iran from this list is glaring. Iran controls Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Hezbollah, and many other terrorist groups in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.
Larry Kudlow, the former director of President Trump’s National Economic Council, fittingly pointed out that “Iran is the financial facilitator, “master planner” and “chief puppeteer” of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and other terror groups, and it is increasing its threats to the US. So, why is Biden reluctant to sanction and sternly warn Iran?
And why did he fail to Sanction Qatar? Qatar – erroneously presumed a US ally, has been funding Hamas and sheltering its leaders for decades. It also uses its wealth to incentivize and corrupt Western institutions, businesses, officeholders, politicians, influential personalities, and media outlets.
According to Just the News, since June 2020, Qatar has spent at least “$1.6 billion” on lobbying campaigns in the US and “$5.4 billion in total in donations to American universities from Harvard, to George Washington University, Arkansas State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Northwestern University in Qatar, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, and City University College.
Qatar’s generous funding works like fentanyl, addicting universities’ boards, administrations, and professors to Qatar’s money. Not surprisingly, they allow and sometimes endorse pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian propaganda and let antisemitism flourish to satisfy Qatar and keep the money flowing.
The Qatar Foundation, which distributes these funds, is headed by Sheikha Hind, the sister of the Qatari Emir oversees. On October 12, she asserted “unreserved solidarity with Gaza.” She praised the activities of students “enrolled at universities across the foundation” for their “global awareness campaigns condemning Israel’s ‘Murder and Destruction’ In Gaza.”
Qatar’s money also influenced many Washington-based think tanks. Among them is the Brookings Institute, which operates a branch in Doha. For years, it kept secret the millions of dollars it received from Qatar. A payment of $14.8 million to Brookings’ former vice president, former US ambassador to Israel (twice), and Obama’s Middle East envoy Martin Indyk proved a good investment. Indyk has made many public statements harshly criticizing Israel, often parroting Qatar’s, the Palestinians’, and Hamas’ lies against the Jewish state. When Qatar’s payments to him were exposed, Indyk contended Qatar’s payments did not influence him or Brookings’ positions.
However, in June 2022, then Brookings’ president, John Allen, was forced to resign because court documents showed the retired four-star general and Obama’s appointed former commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was secretly lobbying for Qatar in violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Allen denied the charges. The Department of Justice closed the investigation in January 2023.
Support of pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian groups in the US is not limited to foreign entities. It also comes directly and indirectly from US-based foundations. George and Alexander Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) is one of them.
The Washington Free Beacon revealed the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) in San Francisco, “a “fiscally sponsored project” of the George Soros-funded Tides Center, is “urging high schoolers (added emphasis) around the country to join a “Walk Out for Gaza” protests. The AROC advocated chants, such as “Israel, Israel you can’t hide, We charge you with genocide,” and “Free, Free Palestine, and “circulating media talking points—saying the United States is “complicit” in the “genocide” of Palestinians and must demand an immediate ceasefire—and signs that read “Decolonize Palestine” and “Palestine Will be Free.”
The OSF has been funding the two pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian groups Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow that invaded the Capitol on October 18, demonstrating against Israel’s response to Hamas atrocities, accusing it of “genocide” and demanding a ceasefire. Since 2017, Jewish Voice for Peace has received $650,000 from Soros for its “human rights” work in the Middle East, and it was granted an additional two-year award in 2021. IfNotNow, received $400,000 in 2019 and 2021 from the OSF.
For decades, the OSF also funded progressive pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel individuals’ training and “continuing education.” The “graduates” are helped into academia, nonprofits, and media positions and win extra funding from Soros and his friends, win local and national elections, furthering Soros’s and the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian messages and influencing US policy.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Michigan progressive Democrat, the Squad member who keeps a Palestinian flag at her Congressional office, is an excellent example of how beneficiaries of Soros’s largess operate. The $225,180 grant Tlaib received from OSF in 2016 as a “Leadership in Government” fellow paid off.
Tlaib, a virulent anti-Israel, pro-Hamas activist, supports boycotting Israel, comparing it “to boycotting the Nazi regime,” and claims Israel is an apartheid state. She has a “map in her office where Israel is covered with a sticky note that says ‘Palestine.’
The Soros Agenda details the OSF’s funding–directly and indirectly–of many other organizations and influential individuals linked with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), all designated terrorist organizations.
Some still consider the funding of organizations and individuals spreading the poisonous genocidal ideology of Iran and its proxies, Hamas, as free speech instead of incitement to and support of terrorism. But don’t expect the Biden administration to stop this incitement anytime soon. After all, the President just gifted Hamas $100 million as “humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people in Gaza.”
Rachel Ehrenfeld is the author of The Soros Agenda and Funding Evil –How Terrorism is Financed -and How to Stop it, and is the director of the American Center for Democracy.
Hannah Katz says
How about we freeze the assets of all Islamic countries that refuse to take in their Palestinian brothers and sisters? Gaza should be emptied out, bulldozed, and settled by Israelis and annexed into Israel proper. Arabs Muslims should welcome Arab Muslims with open arms. Only the Arab Christians should be allowed to stay.
THX 1138 says
Why would Arab Muslims do that? When Islam commands every Muslim to convert, conquer, or kill all infidels until the whole planet is Muslim?
Secondly, where do these Muslim savages ruling over Qatar, Iran, and Saudi Arabia get their trillions and trillions of dollars? They get it from oil. How did these Muslim savages get control of the oil? The West altruistically, self-sacrificially, and self-destructively handed over the ownership of that oil from the West to the Muslim savages.
“October 2, 2001—Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001.
Fifty years ago, Truman and Eisenhower surrendered the West’s property rights in oil, although that oil rightfully belonged to those in the West whose science, technology, and capital made its discovery and use possible. The first country to nationalize Western oil, in 1951, was Iran. The rest, observing our frightened silence, hurried to grab their piece of the newly available loot.
The cause of the U.S. silence was not practical, but philosophical. The Mideast’s dictators were denouncing wealthy egotistical capitalism. They were crying that their poor needed our sacrifice; that oil, like all property, is owned collectively, by virtue of birth; and that they knew their viewpoint was true by means of otherworldly emotion. Our Presidents had no answer. Implicitly, they were ashamed of the Declaration of Independence. They did not dare to answer that Americans, properly, were motivated by the selfish desire to achieve personal happiness in a rich, secular, individualist society.
The Muslim countries embodied in an extreme form every idea—selfless duty, anti-materialism, faith or feeling above science, the supremacy of the group—which our universities, our churches, and our own political Establishment had long been upholding as virtue. When two groups, our leadership and theirs, accept the same basic ideas, the most consistent side wins.” – Leonard Peikoff
Intrepid says
Wow, another altruism lecture and another screed from the Peeskster.
Aren’t we lucky?
Can we say that you are truly stuck on stupid?
Taylor says
If you really believe that’ll happen, then you believe the Golem was real.
There are no wunderwaffen in the offing.
Neegmar says
I like Larry Kudlow. Having pissed away 56 of my 56 years on this planet playing for last-ranked Team Judea, I think I’ll follow Larry’s lead and play for the other team.
As for Qatar and their bribes…how many of those bribed are still playing on last-ranked Team Judea? Most of them.
Steve Chavez says
Let them take their Masks off. Strange… all Democrats which shouldn’t be a surprise since they’ve aided and abetted every enemy of the United States since WWII and Vietnam! Jihadi Jane’s now and they run our universities and now recruiting the next generation of traitors! When, not if, we or Israel attacks the root of the problem, The Mullahs, the sleeper cells will awaken.
LuzMaria Rodriguez says
Maybe if not now, it won’t be if.
Too many r inside the wire.
Angel Jacob says
The cancer is spreading.
Onzeur Trante says
The media would like the public to believe that the college campus protests were spontaneous events attended by students on a mission for justice to the Palestinians (read Hamas). Sure, the handwritten cardboard signs, and cliches offered by participants interviewed by the media gave it that misguided campus social justice vibe. The ubiquitous commercially produced banners, signs and Palestinian flags, however, tell a different story — that these protests have likely been spawned, organized, and staged by pro-Palestine operations like OSF and other Islamic organizations operating under the radar in our midst. They have a clear objective and it’s not only about Gaza, it’s about the rest of us.
LuzMaria Rodriguez says
We are advised by scientists that this planet is about 4.5 years old. For eons, civilizations have come and gone. One suspects many societal turns are pushed by the ignorant and unaware. More and more we appear to be such.
Radman414 says
“Look Who’s Funding Islamist Extremism in America,” by Mia Cathell, Oct. 21, 2023, in Townhall. — This is what I’ll bet you and others DIDN’T KNOW about terrorist-supporting leftist groups IN AMERICA and who’s financing them.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/10/21/antifa-money-jihad-n2630008?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&recip=4580636
Radman414 says
There is NO Palestinian state, only Palestinians. Anyone, and I mean ANYONE who can support or even rationalize the unprovoked, brutal attack on Israeli citizens…women and children set on fire and beheaded by Hamas’s Islamic terrorists should immediately give up their U. S. citizenship and immigrate to the Muslim-dominant nation of their choice…to fight and die for their prime directive…to kill all the Jews and destroy Israel. And if you’re of this mindset and NOT a citizen, you should be deported immediately.
These statistics about viewpoints in America are frightening! Why, because there are so many indoctrinated, “useful idiots” who don’t understand the inherent, barbaric nature of the Islamists. :
https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-muslim-americans-believe-hamas-was-justified-in-its-terror-attacks-against-israel
Tex the Mockingbird says
Those who finance and support these Terrorists should get Life in Prison No Pardons no Clemency in prison until the day they die
George says
Thank You Rachel, now what do you think is the best way to rid America of the 3,000 mosques that are in every city?
Jack Diamond says
Qatar (Gutter) was the funder of ISIS, was the creator of Boko Haram (who swore allegiance to the ISIS caliphate), hosted the only Taliban embassy for years and Doha airport was the hub for their narcoterrorism traffic. They own half of Europe and run the Muslim banlieu’s in France (and their riots). They host the Muslim Brotherhood and their branch in “Palestine”, HAMAS, It goes without saying (?) that funding terrorist entities, funding genocide, funding and abetting war crimes (which includes using civilians or hostages as human shields) are illegal, in both international law and our own law (should any future generation start taking such things seriously). That not only would include Iran, Qatar etc but the MB in America (all of which should have happened after 9/11).