Israel gets fed up with the Hamas fat cats in Qatar …
… and kills them, or at least many of them. If they thought they were safe in Qatar, they were wrong.
One of the many interesting things about the post-10/7 world is the demonstration of all the things Israel had the capacity to do but had held back from doing. This is one of them. Apparently, Israel’s patience with the endless stalling and refusal to make a deal to release the remaining hostages had finally run out.
You may or may not recall that on Sunday President Trump gave Hamas a “last warning” that went like this:
“Everyone wants the hostages HOME. Everyone wants this war to end!” Trump wrote. “It is time for Hamas to accept [my terms] as well.”
“I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning. There will not be another one,” Trump asserted.
Trump also apparently warned Qatar prior to the strike.
As for the strike itself, the results are not entirely clear yet:
Israel struck the Hamas leadership in Doha, with different reports saying that between 4 and 8 Hamas officials were present during the strike.
Israeli sources told the Jerusalem Post that senior Hamas officials were killed in the strike in Doha, with them believing that there were between four and eight senior officials in the secret apartment of al-Hayya at the moment it was bombed.
Overall, the security establishment was optimistic about the success of the attack, saying that the results looked good, but the specifics were still unclear. …
According to the military and the Shin Bet, special measures were taken to avoid harming anyone other than the top Hamas leaders, based on precise intelligence and munitions.
In fact, if multiple Hamas officials survived, it could be because a less powerful munition was used, and if a larger munition had been used, they might all have been killed.
Expect no praise for Israel from Arab countries, and that’s what has happened. What they say in public and what they think in private isn’t always the same thing, however. For most, there’s no love lost for Hamas or the Palestinians although they have to keep up the pretense.
Then of course there are the usual European suspects:
France, Spain and the United Kingdom condemned Israel’s airstrikes, which it said were targeting Hamas officials, in the Qatari capital of Doha on Tuesday. …
“The priority must be an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages, and a huge surge in aid into Gaza. This is the only solution towards long-lasting peace,” Starmer said.
“Today’s Israeli strikes on Qatar are unacceptable, whatever the reason.
“Unacceptable” is one of my favorite diplo-speak weasel phrases. And then there’s “whatever the reason.” Starmer is both fool and knave, and I don’t expect him to “accept” anything Israel does to defend itself whatever the reason.
Good Show, Israel.
Lasting Peace? Please, go look at the video of Chamberlin waving his Lasting Peace agreement. Only way to lasting peace is to eliminate them
It baffles me how weasels like Starmer always seem to rise to the top. But then I remember that so does pond scum.
These incredible precision strikes, along with the pager caper and the destruction of Iran’s air defense network really should inspire an understanding in the minds of their Mohammedan enemies, which amounts to the sentences, “We can find you and take you out any time we want. You only live because we haven’t chosen to kill you yet.”
The same message was conveyed by President Trump with the raid on the Iranian nuclear sites. With any rational actor, the prospect that your enemy can go anywhere it chooses and attack on its own schedule, with zero warning, would be incredibly daunting. But we’re dealing with a death cult that will toss away lives like poker chips.
But still, cutting off the snake’s head has value. Destroying terrorists’ expertise means you really are dealing with the junior varsity.
Bravo! These monsters should not feel safe anywhere.
Knave and fool are terms too charitable for Starmer. I propose the term malignant moron.
“Today’s Israeli strikes on Qatar are unacceptable, whatever the reason.”
The existence of Hamas is unacceptable. There, FIFY.
The White House press conference statement today ( https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1965479210832826841 ) was nigh unto incomprehensible, or, as Tony Badran had it, “objectively funny”.
The UK and France are sinking into the Caliphate so know what their future is going.
“The UK and France are sinking into the Caliphate so know what their future is going.”
Make a plan to get their nukes out.
“Unacceptable”, if uttered by serious people, would mean severe and possibly military consequences. But none of these governments is going to do anything to Israel.
In the old time of metal currency it was always tempting to debase the coin further, no matter how much it had already been debased. Something like that has happened with Western diplomacy.
This is how nations sleepwalk into wars, by uttering words that are known not to mean anything, until someone steps over a red line that didn’t seem to be any different from any of the other ones stepped over with no consequences.
Kill them all. Every last one of them.
“Make a plan to get their nukes out.”
Excellent point! Yes, what happens to those weapons as France, Germany,and the UK sink into sharia?
Not just diplomacy…
WRT “debasing the currency”, it would appear to be just one more glorious benefit of Obaman
Transformation(TM)24/7 crisis-generating policy…“Bloomberg Chief Economist’s Stunning Admission: Job Revisions Confirm Recession Started In April 2024”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bloomberg-chief-economists-stunning-admission-job-revisions-confirm-recession-started-mid
@physicsguy:Yes, what happens to those weapons as France, Germany,and the UK sink into sharia?
In Germany’s case nothing, as they don’t have their own nuclear weapons. (Germany could probably have them by next Tuesday if they wanted them.)
As for France and Britain someday becoming Muslim, it might be worth keeping in mind that there is already a Muslim nation with its own nukes and it has had them for over 20 years. I don’t know the details of what keeps the lid on that, but the United States has been involved in keeping those weapons “secure”, and it’s not easy to find out exactly how this has been done or why it continues to be this way.
Related:
This link fleshes out the “Biden” economic coup described above:
“New data shows Trump inherited a much bleaker labor market from the Biden administration than we’d previously known”—
https://instapundit.com/743298/
Related:
“Qatari PM: We reserve the right to respond to ‘treacherous’ Israeli attack;
“Qatar’s PM condemns Israeli strike on Hamas leaders in Doha as “state terrorism,” warns of retaliation. He accuses Netanyahu of “rogue” behavior and sabotaging peace efforts”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414670
To be sure, what the well-healed weasel should have said is:
“We reserve the right to respond to ‘treacherous’ Israeli attack ON OUR DEAR ALLY…”
…which should probably raise a few questions…if they haven’t been raised already….
In any event, Al-Jazeera will likely be pretty busy today. No, scratch that—for them it’ll be business as usual…
I don’t know how long the term has been in use but I figured out during the Obama administration that “unacceptable “ is diplo-speak for “we don’t like it but we aren’t going to do anything about it.”
Do you think this is a deliberate attempt to embarrass and undermine Trump, like the phony BLS numbers and the WSJ Epstein articles?
So … looks like Israel has given up on diplomacy for now. Not that I blame them. However, they are boldly going where no Israel has gone before.
For the first time Israel has attacked on Qatar soil. Qatar’s leaders are not amused.
Furthermore, two of the Hamas leaders killed are, from what I understand, negotiators involved in the ceasefire negotiations. I don’t disagree but that is crossing a line.
It also appears that Israel is finally going to clear Gaza City in order to destroy Hamas.
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–“Israeli military evacuation order triggers panic in Gaza City”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-evacuation-order-triggers-panic-gaza-city-2025-09-09/
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The rest of the world will do the cowardly things the rest of the world does\. But Israel is strong and Trump has its back.
So, that’s it for negotiations until Israel finishes this chapter.
Nonetheless, “Foreign Affairs” is on the case!
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Israel faces a stark choice. It will either need to make a sincere bid for compromise and peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians or risk losing the international support that its long-term well-being requires. Although the two-state solution has become anathema to many Israelis, it remains the best hope for their prosperity and security. That having a state of their own would be good for the Palestinians goes without saying. But it would also be good for Israel; indeed, helping to bring about a Palestinian state has the potential to serve Israel just as much as it would serve others.
–Richard Haas, “A Palestinian State Would Be Good for Israel: The Chance for a Two-State Solution Still Exists—but Won’t for Long”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/palestinian-state-would-be-good-israel
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A two-state solution … now more than ever! But only If You Act Now!
Sadly Israel has turned its back on the wise Richard Haas’s of the world.
Hold on, didn’t Israel offer a two-state solution three times since Oslo?
(To be sure, it certainly behooves one to forget / ignore / scoff at this, um, peculiar quibble.)
Does Richard Ha-Ha-Ha-Haas have ANYTHING to say on the matter?
Not that it really DOES matter one way or the other…since the decision has pretty much been made:
Israel REFUSES to be destroyed—make that, “UNCONSCIONABLY REFUSES to be destroyed”.
THEREFORE, IT MUST BE DESTROYED.
Indeed, the wisest of wise moralists and judges, pundits and pontificators, ethicists and educators, have come to the only conclusion possible, given their level of morality, ethics, discernment and judgment:
GAME, SET, MATCH HAMAS.
OK, but just a teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy little fix is required here:
The Hamastinians were given a golden opportunity back in 2006 when Israel left Gaza. They were given a place with decent infrastructure, the foreign aid poured in, and they had an election. Where was France and Germany then? Where was the UN? Where were the Hollywood know-it -all’s? Did they monitor the election to ensure the people didn’t do something stupid like putting terrorists into power?
Now they have nothing. It would be crazy for Israel to submit to a 2-state solution with those people.
WRT the Middle East, I learned long ago to pay zero attention to anything said by any of the players.
Pay attention to what is done, instead.
The real challenge is figuring out exactly what has been done, and who did it.
The words from the White House briefing room mean nothing.
Not always thrilled by what Commentary Magazine’s Abe Greenwald has to say, but when he’s right he’s right…(at least I hope so):
“Israel is remaking the map”
Abe Greenwald article opening grafs:
huxley:
Nonetheless, “Foreign Affairs” is on the case!
As other commenters have already pointed out, Israel has already attempted “compromise and peaceful coexistence.” Apparently Foreign Policy wants Israel to pursue what hasn’t previously worked, in the hope that THIS TIME it will work. Just like “real Socialism hasn’t been tried yet.”
Foreign Policy dixit:
The Palis do not support the two-state solution. Consider a November, 2023 poll, where only 17% supported a two-state solution. AWRAD: Public Opinion Poll – Gaza War 2023 – Tables of Results (14 November 2023):
Since the Palestinians overwhelmingly reject the two solutions involving “two peoples,” it is fair to conclude that the 75% of Palestinians who support “A Palestinian state from the river to the sea”— envisage a Palestine consisting of only one people. That is, they envisage Palestine “from the river to the sea” as being Judenrein (free of Jews).
Great advice, Foreign Policy.
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