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July 31 2014
Qatar, and Other American "Allies", Are Among The Villains In Gaza
Details Published on Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:42
American allies, especially Qatar and Turkey, have been providing
material support to Hamas, which the United States has listed as a
foreign terrorist organization. This support includes financial,
diplomatic, media and even the provision of weapons that deliberately
target Israeli civilians from behind Palestinian civilians who are
used as human shields. It also includes harboring war criminals,
especially leaders of Hamas, who direct their followers from the
safety of Doha. Without the support of Qatar and Turkey, Hamas would
never have started this bloody war that has caused so much human
suffering.
Qatar, which is more of a family-owned gas station than a real
country, regards itself as untouchable because of its oil wealth. Its
residents--they are not really citizens because there are no genuine
elections or freedom of speech or religion--are the richest in the
world. It can buy anything it wants, including the 2022 World Cup,
several American university campuses, some of the world's greatest
art, Al Jazeera television and other luxuries. It can also buy
terrorist groups such as Hamas. Indeed, after Iran, which is the
world's worst state sponsor of terrorism, Qatar ranks near the top of
this dishonor role of death.
Any individual who provides material support to a designated terrorist
group such as Hamas commits a crime under the United States Penal law
and the laws of several European countries. If Hamas were ever to be
convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, as it may
well be, any individual who was an accessory to such crimes would be
guilty as well. It is entirely fair, therefore, to describe Qatar as a
criminal regime, guilty of accessory to mass murder.
In some ways Turkey is even worse. Its erratic prime minister, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, has incited anti-Semitism, provoked conflict with
Israel, provided material support to Hamas and undercut efforts to
achieve a realistic end to the Gaza War. He has demanded that his
Jewish subjects do his bidding, telling "our Jewish citizens' leaders"
that they must "adopt a firm stance and release a statement against
the Israeli government." He has suggested that if they fail to do so
they will not be regarded as "good Turks," thus raising the old canard
of "dual loyalty."
Erdogan also recently said of Israel that "they always curse Hitler,
but they now even exceed him in barbarism." And he responded to
Americans who complain about the "comparisons with Hitler," by saying
"You're American, what's Hitler got to do with you," forgetting that
Hitler's forces killed thousands of American soldiers and civilians.
He also conveniently forgets that Turkey, which remained immorally
"neutral" in the war against Nazism, provided Hitler with the playbook
for his genocide, by its own genocide against Armenians. As Hitler
asked rhetorically when planning his genocide: "Who, after all, speaks
today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" So Hitler matters to
America, as it should to Turkey, which still mendaciously denies that
it committed genocide against the Armenians.
Yet it was Qatar and Turkey to which Secretary of State John Kerry
turned in his efforts to get Israel and Hamas to agree to a cease
fire. This not only infuriated Israel, which considers these two
countries as accessories to Hamas' war crimes, but also Jordan, Egypt
and the Palestinian Authority, which also see Qatar and Turkey as
allies of Hamas and enemies of moderate Arab states.
The time has come for the United States and the international
community to reassess the status of Qatar and Turkey. These two
countries have become part of the problem, rather than part of the
solution. A nation that hosts Hamas leaders and finances their
terrorism should not also host the World Cup. Nor should American
universities send their faculty and students to a nation complicit in
terrorism that has taken the lives of many Americans as well as
Israelis.
Turkey's role in NATO must also be reevaluated. Membership in this
organization entails certain responsibilities, and Turkey has failed
in these responsibilities. They have become untrustworthy partners in
the quest for peace.
It is a truism that we, as a nation, must deal with devils, because
men and women are not angels. I do not fault Secretary of State Kerry
for trying to use Qatar and Turkey to pressure Hamas into accepting a
deal, although the deal they ultimately came up with was a bad one. My
point is that Qatar's wealth and Turkey's size should not preclude us
from telling it as it is: Qatar and Turkey are among the worst
villains in the Gaza tragedy. Nor should we reward such villains, and
such complicit in war crimes, by international gifts, such as the
World Cup. Both Qatar and Turkey should be treated as pariahs unless
and until they stop becoming state sponsors, supporters and
facilitators of terrorism.
Alan Dershowitz's latest book is "Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law".
by Alan M. Dershowitz July 31, 2014 at 2:45 pm
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4561/qatar-gaza
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2014073134650/editorial/world-opinion-and-editorial/qatar-and-other-american-allies-are-among-the-villains-in-gaza.html
From: A. Papazian
July 31 2014
Qatar, and Other American "Allies", Are Among The Villains In Gaza
Details Published on Thursday, 31 July 2014 19:42
American allies, especially Qatar and Turkey, have been providing
material support to Hamas, which the United States has listed as a
foreign terrorist organization. This support includes financial,
diplomatic, media and even the provision of weapons that deliberately
target Israeli civilians from behind Palestinian civilians who are
used as human shields. It also includes harboring war criminals,
especially leaders of Hamas, who direct their followers from the
safety of Doha. Without the support of Qatar and Turkey, Hamas would
never have started this bloody war that has caused so much human
suffering.
Qatar, which is more of a family-owned gas station than a real
country, regards itself as untouchable because of its oil wealth. Its
residents--they are not really citizens because there are no genuine
elections or freedom of speech or religion--are the richest in the
world. It can buy anything it wants, including the 2022 World Cup,
several American university campuses, some of the world's greatest
art, Al Jazeera television and other luxuries. It can also buy
terrorist groups such as Hamas. Indeed, after Iran, which is the
world's worst state sponsor of terrorism, Qatar ranks near the top of
this dishonor role of death.
Any individual who provides material support to a designated terrorist
group such as Hamas commits a crime under the United States Penal law
and the laws of several European countries. If Hamas were ever to be
convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Court, as it may
well be, any individual who was an accessory to such crimes would be
guilty as well. It is entirely fair, therefore, to describe Qatar as a
criminal regime, guilty of accessory to mass murder.
In some ways Turkey is even worse. Its erratic prime minister, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, has incited anti-Semitism, provoked conflict with
Israel, provided material support to Hamas and undercut efforts to
achieve a realistic end to the Gaza War. He has demanded that his
Jewish subjects do his bidding, telling "our Jewish citizens' leaders"
that they must "adopt a firm stance and release a statement against
the Israeli government." He has suggested that if they fail to do so
they will not be regarded as "good Turks," thus raising the old canard
of "dual loyalty."
Erdogan also recently said of Israel that "they always curse Hitler,
but they now even exceed him in barbarism." And he responded to
Americans who complain about the "comparisons with Hitler," by saying
"You're American, what's Hitler got to do with you," forgetting that
Hitler's forces killed thousands of American soldiers and civilians.
He also conveniently forgets that Turkey, which remained immorally
"neutral" in the war against Nazism, provided Hitler with the playbook
for his genocide, by its own genocide against Armenians. As Hitler
asked rhetorically when planning his genocide: "Who, after all, speaks
today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" So Hitler matters to
America, as it should to Turkey, which still mendaciously denies that
it committed genocide against the Armenians.
Yet it was Qatar and Turkey to which Secretary of State John Kerry
turned in his efforts to get Israel and Hamas to agree to a cease
fire. This not only infuriated Israel, which considers these two
countries as accessories to Hamas' war crimes, but also Jordan, Egypt
and the Palestinian Authority, which also see Qatar and Turkey as
allies of Hamas and enemies of moderate Arab states.
The time has come for the United States and the international
community to reassess the status of Qatar and Turkey. These two
countries have become part of the problem, rather than part of the
solution. A nation that hosts Hamas leaders and finances their
terrorism should not also host the World Cup. Nor should American
universities send their faculty and students to a nation complicit in
terrorism that has taken the lives of many Americans as well as
Israelis.
Turkey's role in NATO must also be reevaluated. Membership in this
organization entails certain responsibilities, and Turkey has failed
in these responsibilities. They have become untrustworthy partners in
the quest for peace.
It is a truism that we, as a nation, must deal with devils, because
men and women are not angels. I do not fault Secretary of State Kerry
for trying to use Qatar and Turkey to pressure Hamas into accepting a
deal, although the deal they ultimately came up with was a bad one. My
point is that Qatar's wealth and Turkey's size should not preclude us
from telling it as it is: Qatar and Turkey are among the worst
villains in the Gaza tragedy. Nor should we reward such villains, and
such complicit in war crimes, by international gifts, such as the
World Cup. Both Qatar and Turkey should be treated as pariahs unless
and until they stop becoming state sponsors, supporters and
facilitators of terrorism.
Alan Dershowitz's latest book is "Taking the Stand: My Life in the Law".
by Alan M. Dershowitz July 31, 2014 at 2:45 pm
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4561/qatar-gaza
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2014073134650/editorial/world-opinion-and-editorial/qatar-and-other-american-allies-are-among-the-villains-in-gaza.html
From: A. Papazian