Discerning Doha
My shoulders sagged this week when I read that the hapless Middle Easty envoy appointed by Donald Trump—Steve Witkoff—will be leading negotiations with Iran this week in the capital city of Qatar, Doha.
Witkoff, a wealthy American real estate developer, has already demonstrated that his diplomatic credentials are so thin, he’s actually a liability. Press interviews in which he said that Hamas are not really bad guys, raised alarm bells all over the West, which is saying something. American diplomacy in the region has been suspect for decades, and one can say that European efforts are even worse than that. Jihadists have played us like a fiddle for a very long time. It is dismaying to finally be rid of the devil Biden, and then see his successors in the Middle East diplomatic teams are really almost as bad. It’s incredible.
It’s bad enough that Witkoff’s amateurish handling of the Gaza hostage situation hasn’t helped. But the bigger existential threat, a nuclear Iran, requires an adult.
But if I’m being honest, Witkoff is just carrying out his boss’s instructions. President Trump has done tremendous things for Israel. I think he is correct in advising them to move quickly to end Hamas (the Israelis are different from other countries in that they put premium priority on getting their hostages back alive. If Hamas had taken Russians captive, Putin would have sent in troops to kill everyone, and it would have taken about 10 minutes. Israel? Working on two years of war, allowing Hamas to dictate terms because they hold hostages.
(As an aside, I will never get over the fact that Hamas murdered the Bibas boys and their mother, and the world is largely silent! Jew hatred is truly satanic.)
I want to recommend a new organization to you, recommended to me by an Israeli friend. The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security is a think-tank in Israel and I’ve read enough articles to know that I really like their assessments. This week, Dr. Udi Levy sized-up some of the problems involved with getting too close to Qatar.
“The Swords of Iron war has thrust Qatar into the spotlight. For two decades, Doha has leveraged Middle East crises to earn international credit as a mediator and problem solver. This time, however, the conflict has damaged its image worldwide.
“Over more than twenty years, Qatar formulated what one might call a ‘pincer doctrine’: one arm extending a welcoming embrace to the Western world, the other working to undermine it. The friendly arm relies on diplomacy, vast sums of money, strategic acquisitions, mediation for hostage releases and crisis resolution, bribes to politicians, and operating public-relations firms to do its bidding. The destructive arm comprises Al Jazeera and a global propaganda network, gaining influence in universities, the promotion of radical Islam via the Muslim Brotherhood’s teachings, financing terror, and fomenting revolutions in the Islamic world.”
Uh oh.
The Muslim Brotherhood, formed in 1928 in Egypt, is the spiritual child of the Wahhabists from hundreds of years ago in the Arabian Peninsula. The Muslim Brotherhood today is the mothership of international terror.
Since October 7, 2023, Qatar has tried to manage the psychopaths in Hamas, but the terror group—true believers in jihad—haven’t followed orders. At the same time, Hamas is desperate to remain tethered to Qatar’s money and influence. Meanwhile, Qatar skillfully played a network of enemies and friends. Bolstering their ties to both Iran and Turkey, Qatar also sat with U.S. negotiators and spoke soothing words, poured tea, and smiled pleasantly.
More from Levy:
“Documents captured in Gaza—corroborated by Shin Bet interrogations—confirm beyond doubt that Qatar has been a central pillar of support for Hamas. Doha has been a principal financial pillar not only for Gaza’s reconstruction but also for the movement as a whole, including its military arm. Qatar bankrolled Hamas’s special forces and training in Lebanon and was seen by the group as central to promoting its interests. At the same times, as an ostensible mediator it manipulated Israel and promoted Hamas’s agenda worldwide.
“Qatar has also operated in tandem with Shiite elements. It funds the Houthis and Hezbollah, including their purchase of drones and gliders, just as Shiite Iran backs Hamas and other Sunni groups, including the mujahideen organization in Gaza that murdered the Bibas family.”
How in the world are we in bed with Qatar? At what point do the “benefits” of using them for mediation sink into the abyss of evil the kingdom lives in?
I don’t know enough to know these answers. I only know that good struggles to stay ahead of evil in our world. In a just world, these things wouldn’t be happening. The Deep State/globalist networks are so deep and wide, it’s obvious that man is not going to be able to bring peace.
That is still off in the distance.
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