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Originally Posted by microbet
The leadership of Hamas and Likud got into power by being hardliners. Conflict is in both of their interests.
I do wonder how Qatar will respond to all of this. I am inclined to believe Qatar was just handing Hamas blank checks and wasn't really aware of what they were up to. It is hard to believe that Qatar thinks the way things are going is in their best interests.
I dont think they can publicly do much other than to support Hamas, because Hamas has so much support in the Muslim world right now (this is of course in large part Qatar's own fault as their state funded Al Jazeera is responsible for a lot of the anti-Western/pro-terrorist propaganda that has inundated the Arab world for the last several years)
So I do wonder if they will quietly shift strategy away from supporting Hamas, now that they see what Hamas has actually been up to.