Posted on 01/06/2015 7:04:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Looks like the diplomatic efforts of Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi may have paid off. Khaled Mashaal, who ran the recent Hamas war on Israel from the safety of Doha where he has long kept his organization’s worldwide headquarters, got kicked out of Qatar altogether — along with the Muslim Brotherhood. CNN reports that the expelled officials will likely end up in Turkey:
Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal and members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been expelled from Qatar, a Hamas-run news agency reported Tuesday.
The officials are most likely headed to Turkey, the report said.
The move comes after a Saudi-brokered initiative to improve relations between Qatar and Egypt.
Qatar, a US ally, came under fire during the summer for hosting Mashaal and for attempting to intervene diplomatically on their behalf. John Kerry tried to engage Qatar during the war, but Egypt — which controlled the negotiations — cut Qatar out entirely of the talks, humiliating Kerry and making it clear that Hamas would be isolated. Qatar then reportedly demanded that Mashaal continue the war to force Egypt into backing down and allowing their participation, which only extended the eventual humiliation of Hamas in Gaza.
Since that time, the other Sunni Arab nations have allied to fight ISIS, but Qatar had been left in the cold. To rebuild relations with Egypt, Sisi demanded that Qatar stop supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, which would necessarily include its client terrorist network Hamas. Under pressure from other Sunni states, Qatar agreed, and it looks like they were serious about it.
The good news, then, is that Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have become even more isolated. The bad news is their apparent destination: Turkey, a putative US ally and a member of NATO. The Jerusalem Post had reported this week that some MB officials had already been moving to Turkey before the expulsion, and the action by Qatar today has accelerated that process. That does not bode well for Israel-Turkey relations, which have already been on the skids under Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and should send up red flags in Washington and Brussels, too. Still, anything that weakens Hamas’ support in the region is good news overall for Israel — and probably for Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah too.
Not to worry. They still have good friends in the White House in DC!
No problems. Plenty of room at the White House.
Regrettably, Best Guess is qatar is attempting a ruse as qatar continues to fund hamas and other assorted terrorists.
From Wikipedia - I knew the name was familiar but I couldn’t remember why:
“”On 25 September 1997, Mashal was the target of an assassination attempt carried out by the Israeli Mossad under orders from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his security cabinet.
The assassination was intended as retaliation to the 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market Bombings. At the time of the assassination attempt, Mashal was considered Hamas’ Jordanian branch chief.
Two Mossad agents carrying fake Canadian passports entered Jordan, where Mashal was living. The Mossad agents waited at the entrance of the Hamas offices in Amman, and as Mashal walked into his office, one of the agents came up from behind and held a device to Mashal’s left ear that transmitted a fast-acting poison.[5] Soon afterward the two Israeli agents were captured.[6]
Immediately after the incident, Jordan’s King Hussein demanded that Benjamin Netanyahu turn over the antidote for the poison, threatening to sever diplomatic relations and to try the detained Israeli agents.[6] Netanyahu at first refused, and the incident quickly grew in political significance.
With Israeli-Jordanian relations rapidly deteriorating, King Hussein threatened to void the historic 1994 peace between the two countries should Mashal die.[7] U.S President Bill Clinton intervened and compelled Netanyahu to turn over the antidote.[8]
The head of Mossad, Danny Yatom, flew to Jordan, with the prime minister’s consent, bringing with him an antidote to treat Mashal.[9]
Despite this, the doctors at the King Hussein Medical Center, where Meshaal lay in a coma, had already administered the same antidote—naloxone (Narcan), an anti-opioid—after observing Meshaal’s symptoms to be consistent with an opioid overdose.[7] The antidote likely saved his life.[6]””
Maybe he has the stuff on Obama.
Color me skeptical...but something stinks to high heaven.
Turkey is the friend of the terrorist these days. Erdogan is not a nice man.
Sounds and looks like a move, by qatar, to move mashal closer to Israel .... am expecting mashal to move freely between turkey, jordan and gaza fully funded by qatar. Lord only knows what trouble will be created.
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