Former Treasury Official: Qatar’s Terror Ties Make it a Questionable U.S. Ally
by TheTower.org Staff | 05.12.17 1:54 pm
The ongoing terror ties of Qatar, most recently evidenced by its hosting of Hamas’s release of the terror organization’s new political document, make it a problematic ally for the United States, Jonathan Schanzer and Kate Havard wrote Thursday in Newsweek.
Schanzer, a former U.S. Treasury Department official and currently Senior Vice President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), and Havard, a research analyst at FDD, wrote that in addition to hosting Hamas for the release of the document, which was falsely “promoted as a more moderate version of the group’s founding charter,” it has given millions in aid that allowed Hamas to reportedly “rebuild its network of terror tunnels,” and provided safe haven for many of the group’s leaders.
Nor is Hamas the only terror group that Qatar has aided. Qatar has overseen the rebranding of the Nusra Front and the Taliban. In the first case it promoted a phony split between the Nusra Front and Al Qaeda, when the former’s leader didn’t renounce his loyalty to Al Qaeda.
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Except for Israel and perhaps conditionally, Jordan and Egypt, respectfully, it's hard to be friends and allies with those countries.
