I’ve said for a long time that Qatar by allowing US bases has pretty much bought an insurance policy to prevent Israel for striking them for harboring Hamas not to mention financing antisemitism all over the world.
President Donald Trump has delivered what he called a “last warning” to Hamas, urging the group to accept a U.S.-backed proposal to release hostages from Gaza — a deal he said Israel has already endorsed.
Needless to say Hamas has not released the hostages.
So two days later we discovered that the Qatar Insurance policy has run out:
The IDF and the Shin Bet on Tuesday confirmed a stunning attempt to assassinate Hamas’s leadership in Doha, Qatar.
After two years of Qatar hosting negotiations between Israel and Hamas over hostage exchanges and ceasefires, the government reached the decision that killing the remaining Hamas leaders was more important than leaving that diplomatic channel open.
A statement said that the leaders targeted were responsible for the October 7, 2023, massacre of around 1,200 Israelis in the country’s South, as well as managing the terror group’s operations for years before that.
And there is reason to believe that Qatar understood this and tried to warn Hamas to play ball
Reuters: Qatar’s Prime Minister urges Hamas in Doha to accept the latest U.S.-backed proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release.
He most probably hinted that the U.S. will green light an operation against them… pic.twitter.com/HO4tF5HGCf
The President has put out a statement saying Israel attacking Qatar is not conducive to their or the US’s goals but also saying hitting Hamas is.
I think Trump has had it with Qatar and they have decided what profit a man if he gains the entire world and loses his life, and thus have decided that Hamas in Qatar was not worth the risk.
Major Carey of Virginia asked if I did not feel myself bound by my constitutional obligations to deliver up fugitives under the fugitive slave act. To this I replied that the Fugitive Slave act did not affect a foreign country, which Virginia claimed to be, and she must reckon it one of the infelicities of her position that insofar at least she was taken at her word
General Benjamin Butler 1861
A lot of people have a lot of things to say about the Israeli strike on Iranian Nuke sites but rather than get deeply into this let me just state the obvious:
Iran has openly spent years developing a nuclear program with the intent to destroy Israel.
Iran has openly spent considerable effort to make war on Israel through proxies.
Iran has publicly stated for decades their intent to destroy Israel, exterminate the Jews and has openly advanced that position worldwide at every opportunity.
Yesterday Israel gave a response to these forthright and open declarations by Iran that can be summed up in three simple words:
Dude:He stepped in a puddle, all right. He’s the fellow we wanted. I guess this is his. A nice, fresh $50 gold piece. It’s just about what Burdette would figure a man’s life was worth. That’s earning money the hard way. SheriffChance: Paid killer. Nice, fresh $50 gold piece. You, mister, you got one in your pocket? Man who claimed the killer wasn’t there:Nobody paid me. Nobody! SheriffChance:And nobody run in here, either, huh? [floors him with swing of his rifle barrel to the face] Dude:Chance… SheriffChance: Oh, I’m not gonna hurt him. Get up! [walking down the line of men] You’re all in it. The whole lot of you. You’re gonna get out of town. Take your boy here with you. You can tell Burdette you got Wheeler. You can tell him anybody else he sends, he’d better pay them more…because they’re gonna earn it.
Rio Bravo 1959
We now have it officially that our Palestinian friends have murdered the Bibas children and their mother (the father was released alive earlier) and will be returning their bodies along with the body of Oded Lifshitz today.
It will be interesting to see how apologists for the mass murders of Hamas , particularly those in the west and on US campus’ spin their kidnapping and murder of a six month old and three month old kid as just and right. Particularly since it can’t be denied that they were deliberately targeted and taken.
What’s even worse is their bodies are being traded for murderers and terrorists. Israel should from this day forward toss out life in prison and introduce the death penalty for terrorists so that they will never be in the position where you have to trade killers for the body of someone their allies kill.
I suspect the results of the autopsies on those children’s bodies will be almost as traumatic to the nation as their return.
I completely understand that Israel is doing all they can to get whoever is left alive back and that’s their call but the fact that they have not launched a war of extermination against these barbarians at their gates completely amazes me. If I was the PM of Israel and the lives and safety of the people of Israel were my responsibility the gloves would be off and as for humanitarian aid, food and water for those in Gaza? Not a drop, not a crumb for those who cheered, celebrated and still celebrate those who kidnapped those kids.
I suspect that the Palestinians will never see another $ of US aid during the Trump years and I suspect our relationship with Qatar who funded this horror will reap some nasty consequences, but not as nasty as they deserve.
News like this really stretches my ability to follow Christ’s command to love enemies and pray for them because such people are enemies of all humanity. I’ll obey the non-optional doctrine but I’m not going to pretend that I like it.
Closing Thought One: I kind of wonder if the decision to kill the man’s wife and children and leave him alive was deliberate as it would inflict the maximum possible pain on any husband and father. The only think that would surprise me about such a decision would be Hamas having the restraint to do so.
Closing Thought Two: Anybody surprised at these actions by the Palestinians/arabs in general and Hamas in particular simply has not paid attention for the last 80 plus years. This is who they are, this is who they always have been. You can’t change them, you can only make the cost of acting like barbarians too prohibitive to contemplate.
Note: This was going to be an “Under the Fedora” column with this as the first item but writing it stopped me cold in my tracks. How can you talk about or quip about anything else? What is more important than this?
There are plenty of lefty influencers who are well paid that Trump can soak, he should go after every one.
It will be a lot of fun to see the Trump organization continue to sue these folks and make them pay.
Justine Bateman and I both noticed something interesting about the left’s reaction to the CEO murder.
another interesting point is usually people on the left blame the gun rather than the shooter. Oddly enough they are celebrating the shooter & not the gun.
Apparently it's the gun's fault when someone they like is murders and the person's fault when it's not#unexpectedly#2a
So not only is nobody calling for Gun Control as Justine notes, but nobody is blaming the gun this time for the killing, or as it should be if the left was consistent celebrating the gun.
Apparently people are the killers when the left approves of the killing and guns are the killers when they don’t.
Speaking of the left and violence…
There's a culture of just total impunity over there when it comes to violence. On Twitter, as far as I can tell, it's rare for people to post violent threats or musings under names identified with their IRL identities. Over there, they know they can do so without any risk. pic.twitter.com/3xRWdAo3Kl
If the French Terror had social media Bluesky would be their spot.
Remember when it was said illegal immigrants were “doing jobs Americans aren’t willing to do anymore”?
Apparently the Israeli’s are the “illegal immigrants” doing the job that the west wants done but doesn’t want to dirty their hands with…
In 1981, Israel destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, preventing the world's worst weapons from being used by Saddam Hussein.
Today, Israel is destroying chemical and strategic weapons in Syria, preventing the world's worst weapons from being used by jihadist rebels.… pic.twitter.com/lC8SdFbYoG
…albeit it’s done out of their own self preservation.
Of course I suspect Jihadi’s will get all the nuclear weapons they want once they’re done taking over England.
There is a group of people who will never listen to any kind of conservative media because in their mind to do so crosses some kind of “purity test” so the only time they get any kind of message that penetrates their bubble world is if someone else chooses to report it.
Enter Stephen A Smith:
After an IG report confirmed what many of us already knew, that the FBI had at least 26 informants on the ground on J6, some of whom went into the Capitol, Stephen A. Smith is sick of defending Democrat lies.
The number of people who follow Stephen A Smith who have likely never consumed conservative media is considerable and he is a significant enough black voice that the MSM blacklists him at their peril, so when he is reporting that the FBI admits to having at least 26 informants on the ground on J6, that’s going to open quite a few eyes.
It’s as if the whole corrupt mess is collapsing and Trump isn’t even sworn in yet.
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