Posted on 05/31/2025 11:24:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
How could it not raise eyebrows? Donald Trump is set to invest some $5.5 billion in Qatar, according to news reports, and he’s just received a $400 million jet from the Qataris.
This is the same Qatar that unabashedly hosted Hamas leaders, and funds the terror organization into the billions of dollars. It’s the same oil-rich country that is bankrolling Al Jazeera, a channel virtually synonymous with Jihadist propaganda, and that is also being sued for having alleged terror ties. To top it off, Qatar’s Deputy Prime Minister has a history of pro-Hamas tweets.
Yet, if Qatar’s place in the world could be described as a Facebook relationship status, it’d be “It’s complicated.”
Complicated, indeed. After all, Qatar has announced that it is no longer playing the role of mediator between Israel and Hamas, and that it is closing the terror group’s offices within its borders. The country the size of Connecticut has also invested $50 million in pro-Trump American media Newsmax in 2019 and 2020. It gave the green light to thousands of fresh kosher meals being provided to Israelis during the 2022 World Cup in Doha, which now hosts a recently opened Jewish center.
Additionally, Qatar also houses Al Udeid, the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East with 10,000 troops, a sign of cooperation that arose after the U.S.’s Saudi military base was shut down.
“It’s a massive amount of money that they have spent on an air base, that America got for free. And what they have done through this direct foreign direct foreign investment, is they have effectively convinced American decision makers, Congress people, the White House, to look the other way,” says...
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Just taking precautions by buying off both sides.
“It’s the same oil-rich country that is bankrolling Al Jazeera, a channel virtually synonymous with Jihadist propaganda”.
The BBC, CNN, CNBC, PBS are all as bad as Al Jazeera.
This is the same Qatar that unabashedly hosted Hamas leaders, and funds the terror organization into the billions of dollars. It’s the same oil-rich country that is bankrolling Al Jazeera
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These things must be presented accurately and this is not accurate above. No, not an oil rich country. A gas rich country.
The money is coming from gas. Oil is a relatively new development, and not huge. 1 mbpd is below most Persian Gulf countries, where their gas output is above all Persian Gulf countries excepting only Iran.
Everything is offshore, shared with Iran.
The writer of article conveniently forgot to mention it was Obama who asked Qatar to let Hamas open offices in their country.
Along with NPR and MSNBC.
It’s called getting entree for intelligence operations.
I fill my tank knowing I enrich Muslim sand people trillionares.
Every country in the mideast are full of snakes.
or scorpions. It’s a bad place to be a frog...
bkmk
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