Posted on 07/26/2014 3:53:15 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Secretary Kerry arrived in Cairo earlier this week. No one wanted him there. Egypt’s ruler, General Sisi, has no interest in saving Hamas through international diplomacy: The Muslim Brotherhood is his mortal enemy. Kerry then went from Cairo to Jerusalem, where he met with U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon, who flew to the meeting on a plane chartered by Qatar, Hamas’ primary source of cash. Kerry also met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is too gracious to tell the secretary to go back to Boston. (Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has said publicly what the Israeli government will not: Kerry is an unwelcome guest.) Next up was Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, who honored Kerry’s presence by endorsing Hamas’s call for a “Day of Rage” in the West Bank. Kerry “will soon decide if Hamas and Israel are willing to agree on a Gaza ceasefire,” Reuters says.
Who wants a ceasefire? Qatar. The sheikhs who bankroll the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera, and Hamas would see their status rise. A ceasefire would lend credence to the theory that the traditional Sunni powers—Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia—have been eclipsed both by Shiite Iran and by Brotherhood-friendly Sunnis in the Gulf and Turkey. Having lost Egypt and possibly Gaza, the Brotherhood finds itself on the precipice. A Qatari-backed ceasefire that does not include disarmament of Hamas would pull the movement back from the abyss.
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In short Obama is a TOTAL DISASTER!
Obama is definitely following an agenda. Thanks for the list.
Star Traveler,
Thanks for all of the analysis.
Very helpful to understanding the complexity of all this.
In other words, they want more money.
Well, I believe Qatar supplies them with all the money they need. Their REAL OBJECTIVE (and also from Qatar, who is pulling the strings behind the scenes) is that they want the BLOCKADE LIFTED! (From both Egypt and Israel). The reason why is what good is the money if Hamas cannot get the arms past the blockade. They can have all the money they want, but they’re going to have trouble getting those arms past Israel and Egypt!
Hamas has already said that this is their objective — to get the arms embargo lifted! And their METHODOLOGY for doing that is to get as many Palestinian civilians killed as they can — and then say, “It’s all the fault of Israel!” ... hoping that this FALSE ACCUSATION will force Israel to lift the arms embargo!
Obama has a checklist too. It’s called, “How to destroy America in two terms”.
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