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Tiny, rich, corrupt and corrupting (see the FIFA bribes)] Qatar has been a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, been a refuge for Hamas leaders, and the only Arab state, save for Syria under Assad, that has befriended the Islamic Republic of Iran. Because of its good relations with Hamas, and with many of Hamas’ leaders conveniently living in Doha, Qatar’s ruler, the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, was chosen to help mediate an agreement between Hamas and Israel that would lead to the current ceasefire and the innocents-for-criminals exchange between Israel and Hamas. For the part the Emir played in attaining this ceasefire and the hostages for-criminals swap — one that many supporters of Israel regard with great dismay — Qatar’s ambassador to the U.K. has suggested that his country’s ruler, the Emir, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. The ambassador’s name, you should know, is Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani, a close relative of the Emir, so it’s all in the family. More on his preposterous suggestion can be found here: “Qatar’s UK ambassador calls for Emir to receive Nobel Prize for ceasefire mediation,” Jerusalem Post, January
Qatar’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani, has called for the Emir of Qatar to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize following the successful mediation of a cease-fire and the second round of hostage releases by Hamas.
The agreement is only in its second week. It has many months to go, and many observers think it will not hold, because Hamas will use the pullback of the IDF from Gazan cities to regroup, rearm, and recruit new combatants. In fact, American intelligence believes that Hamas has already managed to enroll another 15,000 members, who will replace three-quarters of the 20,000 Hamas combatants whom the IDF says it has killed. Of course these new, quite young recruits lack the training, weapons, and battlefield experience of those whom they have replaced. They may turn out to be cannon fodder, akin to the tens of thousands of Hitler Youth members who were thrown into battle in the last months of the war to defend Berlin, and who were easily mowed down by the Allied forces.
The ambassador made the statement to The Jerusalem Post after the release of Israeli hostage Romi Gonen, whose mother, Meirav Leshem-Gonen, he had met last year in Berlin while serving as Qatar’s ambassador to Germany.
“Wisdom triumphed over revenge, ending the longest conflict in modern history,” Sheikh Al-Thani declared. “Families of hostages and prisoners in Tel Aviv, Gaza, and the West Bank celebrated their reunion in a historic moment of unity.”…
“Ending the longest conflict in modern history”? What can Abdullah Al-Thani be thinking? The war in Gaza has gone on for only 15 months. The war in Afghanistan lasted for more than twenty years. The war in Iraq lasted for eight years. So did the war between Iran and Iraq. The war in Ukraine is entering its third year. Or has Sheikh Al-Thani forgotten about the longer war between Israel and the “Palestinians,” or more exactly, the war between Israel and the Arabs, that started on May 15, 1948 and has not yet ended, and of which the war in Gaza is merely one episode? It is doubtful, given the implacable refusal of Muslims to accept a permanent Jewish state in their midst, one built on land they believe must return to Muslim control, that that war ever will end. That Arab-Israeli war can be contained; just as deterrence worked to prevent an American-Soviet conflict during the Cold War, a militarily more powerful Israel — nuclear-armed — can deter its enemies. That could prevent a major war between Israel and the Arabs, but will not end the enmity of the Arabs.
Of course, Sheikh Abdullah al-Thani is not embarrassed to be calling for the Emir, his close relative — Qatar is largely owned, and ruled, by the Al-Thani family — to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The ambassador highlighted the global effort behind the success, crediting world leaders and public opinion for upholding international law and humanitarian principles, which prevented the situation from spiraling into “darker times.” He described the cease-fire as the first step toward a lasting peace based on a two-state solution, stressing the importance of continued international support to achieve that goal….
My, my. Abdullah al-Thani thinks the situation has not “spiraled into darker times” because of this ceasefire which is all of two weeks old, and may fall apart at any minute, if the regrouped Hamas forces in northern Gaza renew their missile attacks on Israel, or if Hamas reveals after the second or third week that there no other hostages still alive. Then the rage in Israel will lead to another attack by the IDF on Hamas in Gaza. Al-Thani also describes as a given what is now almost certainly dead on arrival — that ballyhooed “two-state solution” that 75% of Israeli Jews now reject. And what evidence does Ambassador Al-Thani have that a “lasting peace” will ever be possible between Israel and the Muslim Arabs? Has he read the Qur’an and hadith? Does he know that any land once possessed by Muslims must belong to them forever? Does he know all this but hopes that in the gullible Western world, they will not find out until after Israel has been squeezed back within the indefensible 1949 armistice lines?
Let’s repeat: we are only two weeks into this shaky ceasefire. Hamas in the north is preparing to restart the war. It has 15,000 new recruits. It still has some weapons in hideouts and tunnels that the IDF has not yet uncovered. Praise for the Emir for his supposedly “pivotal role in ending the war” is premature. The ceasefire agreement is not a triumph of statecraft, but a dismal affair in which Israel was pressured to make a very bad deal. Let’s put it this way: Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just as much as Yassir Arafat and Barack Obama. That is, not at all.
Arafat and Obama were two of the worst to win the Peace Prize since I saw that Arafat brandished a Pistol while getting Standing Ovations from the UN and Obama did nothing for Peace At All and the Death of Bin Laden was our Military not Obama
In an interview last month on JNS, journalist Caroline Glick and
the founder and President of MEMRI discussed the dangerous
Qatar – that it was the epicenter of Jihad terror in the Middle East
and how it relentlessly strives to inflict 7th century Wahhabism
upon the world.
Wahhabism is a literal interpretation of the Koran and Sharia –
the same way ISIS, for example, interprets them. Qatar uses all
kinds of modern tactics to deceive others to initially lure them
to the stunted savagery of Islam – such as allowing their women
to parade around in Prada instead of hijabs, for now that is.
As this article points out, there is no better friend to the vicious
terror group Hamas than Qatar. It is disgusting that the Emir of
such a country would be a candidate for a peace prize – especially
since the peace agreement is so lopsided in favor of the terrorists.
One can be certain though that Westerners who have been
hoodwinked by Qatar with its dazzling wealth and pseudo-
modernism will be all for propping up the Islamist Emir as a beacon
of peace. As for the rest of us, he shouldn’t even be considered for
such a thing until Hamas removes its vile condemnation of Jews
from its charter and until Hell freezes over.
Simply put. If Qatar had really not objected to Dead-Baby-Strategy death cult (Gaza “Ministry of Health”) Hamas eliminated, the Oct 7 war would be over in weeks with hostages returned.
Not to mention its JIHADIFASCIST propaganda, via its: Al Jazeera, TheNewArab and MiddleEastEye MEE.