Qatar isn’t so fond of Hamas at the moment
[Hat tip: commenter “sdferr.”]
It appears that Hamas’ latest bout of intractability has finally broken its patron’s back. After 20 years, Qatar is pulling its investment in the terror group. According to my sources, Doha will no longer play the role of host and negotiator, and most of Hamas’ leadership has… pic.twitter.com/ofIyhojCPj
— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) April 27, 2026
The gist of it is that Hamas’ sponsor Qatar is withdrawing some of its support from Hamas, due to Hamas’ tepid response to the Iran War in which Iran decided on the brilliant move to attack Qatar.
sdferr linked to this story, actually…
(I only commented on it.)
Sorry, will fix
Israel Update where Mike and Gadi discuss “The Looming Israeli Elections” (1:11:34 ):
https://youtu.be/xlBvwHxwHFc
Some hilarity (i.e. the Lapid Bennett alliance), some other hilarity (an AI Gadi speaking Russian), and a few news items of note, like war news and analysis (we’re winning, big time). I don’t think Qatar shows up, but then this may have been recorded before word came out.
Qatar’s dissatisfaction with Hamas and Iran in no way lessens its support for soft jihad against the West.
Not one Arab nation remotely wants even one “Palestinian” refugee in their country.
Since Egypt and the USSR created “The Palestinians” out of thin air 60 years ago, it has now dawned on the Arab World that they created a monster and the monster wants to eat them.
Better late than never.
We’ll need to stop calling Tucker Qatarlson, since at present he is more radical and in favor of apocalyptic anti-Western jihadis than the Qataris are, at least openly.
Its curious how the gulf states including qatar was once considered extension of india (aden) was one as well according to sam dalrymple ghandi and his rival subanda bhose both visited the region
Yeah denting their major gas field can change your disposition toward your former lessee being hamas
In the al thanis view shia are considered mushrikun heretics
There was an alliance of convenience in the run up to the current matter some imams i havent checked memri may still be thinking that way
So Hamas is now courting a new host, in Turkey. I guess that might be interesting. But the thing is, terrorism is an expensive service, and the Qataris’ petroleum riches make a nice prospective sugar daddy. Iran used to be considered an attractive terrorist sugar daddy as well, for the same reason.
Amazing how much petroleum still provides much more than just a direct source of energy, or refined products.
I’m still not that fond of Qatar. Pronounced, appropriately, “gutter”.
Except that Hamas had been established in Turkey for quite a while now, and Erdogan has been supporting them to the hilt, materially, ideologically and “morally”—after all, genocidal Moslem Brotherhood club members gotta stick together…though ya’ gotta admit, Israel is kinda in the way of the ambitions, territorial or otherwise, of quite a few…
(So much for the last graf of that “X” link, above…)
With echoes of Kuwait’s response when Yassir Arafat decided, in his wisdom, to back Saddam Hussein’s “initiative” in 1990-91…
And then there’s this:
“Bahrain revokes citizenship of 69 over Iran-linked attacks”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426185
Regional wake-up call + warning…
“A regional scramble to borrow from Iran’s playbook;
“Iran’s weakening leaves a vacuum. Will its role be filled by countries waiting to emulate its use of proxies, armament and pressure to sow chaos and increase their own power, or by a different view leading to prosperity and peace in the region?”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426192
Bill Maher Nails it – New Rule: Rich, Please | ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ (HBO) – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/04/bill-maher-nails-it-new-rule-rich.html
Somewhat related. Today’s lead editorial in the WSJ.
Qatar and the ICC Prosecutor
https://archive.fo/SvVEV
There is a general, world-wide political realignment happening, though the details vary widely locally. NATO is falling apart, it may or may not survive. The Islamic world is realigning both due to the collapse of Iranian influence and the fact of American export capability. Japan is talking seriously about arming up and Britain has lost essentially all its sea power, at least for the moment.
We don’t know what the new world will look like yet, but we can see the old one disintegrating before our eyes.
— SD
Maher has been getting more and more honest in his humor over the last few years. He’s a huge progressive himself, but reality is rubbing his nose in it.
That said, this is a bipartisan problem that cuts across the left/right divide. What we actually have is an aristocrat/commoner divide, which partly overlaps the left/right one. It’s hard to fix because the same economic/social class runs both sides of the left/right debate, and they get richer and richer because, ever since the 1970s, that common class has run things economically, and they’ve been in full political control since the 1990s.
You can tell who really runs a society by which groups the money, both governmental and private, flows toward. The ultra-rich keep getting richer because they make the rules in their own interest. It’s not a conspiracy, just a natural side effect of having a single class/group in control for sixty years.
That class divide makes the traditional talking points, i.e. ‘big government vs. small government’, ‘private sector vs. public sector’, Democrat vs. Republican’, somewhat irrelevant (though Trump has made that last more relevant since 2016 again).
You can tell the class interest of the ruling class by what isn’t talked about. For years, the press and academia and every institutional power, Dem and GOP, kept framing the immigration debate as ‘amnesty vs. amnesty’. That is, what kind of amnesty do you want? They refused even to discuss just closing the border, insisting that the only alternative to amnesty was mass deportation which would not ever happen.
That rather backfired on them, but it was the framing they wanted.
For several years in the 20teens, FOXNews and a lot of the institutional Right kept trying to redefine the national debate as ‘libertarian vs. statist’. Mitt Romney tried to run his whole general-election campaign on that. They liked that because it kept the borders open either way. The electorate had no interest in it, and eventually they gave up trying to make that narrative fly, but they tried for several futile years.
Right now, Maria Salazar and Don Bacon are pushing yet another attempt at an immigration amnesty. They keep claiming it isn’t amnesty because it doesn’t grant citizenship, but that’s obviously beside the point. Bacon is even out insulting voters again trying to drum up support for it. (He isn’t worried about the election because he isn’t running again.)
Of course, the DIGNIDAD bill is probably going nowhere, but just the attempt hurts the GOP in the 2026 elections. It reminds GOP voters that the top of the Party, at heart, wants to go back to the open borders model, because that’s what the donors and business community and agricultural interests want. Cheap Scared Labor Forever.
Politics keeps trying to realign and the governing class of each Party struggles to restore the status quo, because the latter serves their interests. There are a numbered of shared interests across the GOP and Dem working class voters, just as the elite class shares counter-interests.
When you look at politics though that lens, it suddenly all makes sense.
HC68:
You write, “Of course, the DIGNIDAD bill is probably going nowhere, but just the attempt hurts the GOP in the 2026 elections. It reminds GOP voters that the top of the Party, at heart, wants to go back to the open borders model.”
Then why is it “going nowhere”? It’s a certain subset that would like that, but if “the top of the party” wanted it, it probably would happen. I see only a small subset supporting it.
— neo
*Referring to the Dignidad Act.
Because they don’t want to Flake themselves over.
The GOP has had their nose rubbed hard in the fact that their own voters do not like amnesty. So even a lot of them who would privately like to pass an amnesty to make their business donors happy are afraid to try. It’s not an accident that Don Bacon, one of the GOP cosponsors, isn’t running for reelection, nor are some of the other GOPers backing this.
Don Bacon is not running again. Neither is Dan Newhouse. Brian FItzpatrick has stated that if Pennsylvania would open their primaries, he would leave the GOP and run as an independent:
https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_92637f19-8d79-4476-923d-f8cd4fe7d678.html
I’m not saying that every GOPer is pro-amnesty as heart, but I’m pretty sure that most of the Old Guard are, because the business/corporate world is. We’ve seen them try, over and over, to pass amnesty bills, in 2006, 2007, 2013, 2017, 2024, and now here we go again. Negative reaction, over and over, just doesn’t seem to penetrate, at least with a lot of them, because business wants cheap labor.
Those previous incidents mean that when a group like this tries again, it reminds GOP voters of the earlier efforts.
The Middle East roster of players is getting interesting in all sorts of ways.
https://townhall.com/columnists/ej-antoni/2026/04/29/the-opec-cartel-crackup-n2675213
Remember when the IDF/AF came very close to assassinating the entire Hamas leadership in Doha last year? Unfortunately, most of the top big shots of Hamas had left the room to go off on one of their five times a day prayers. I think that that woke the Qataris up and let them know that there are no longer any safe places for Hamas in Qatar anymore.
@ BrooklynBoy – I remember the incident, but had not heard the reason why the strike by Israel missed the targets. Since it is inconceivable that the IDF operators don’t know about “their five times a day prayer,” the timing had to be a calculated warning, demonstrating capability without actually damaging Qatari property or people, and thus not requiring a counter-strike to save face.
Message sent, message received.