Times of Israel reports:
Qatar is reportedly threatening to cut off millions of dollars in aid to the Gaza Strip if Israel goes ahead with annexation, in an apparent bid to pressure Jerusalem to rethink the plan.
Qatari payments to the impoverished, Hamas-controlled Strip have been key to maintaining quiet there, as well as an unofficial truce between Israel and terror group, and Qatar is reluctant to be seen as enabling any West Bank annexation, Channel 13 reported Tuesday.
Of all the Arab nations, only Qatar has shown a willingness to actually help Gaza, as it coordinates its aid through Israel and has spent billions on housing and food for Gazans while every single other Arab nation only plays lip service to the Palestinian cause.
Here, though, Qatar is threatening to end aid to Gaza in order to make things worse in Gaza so there would be more reason for Hamas to resume rocket attacks – which would bring an Israeli military response.
Even to Qatar, the one nation who has shown sympathy for actual Palestinians as opposed to sound bites and photo-ops of every other Arab country, is saying that politics is more important than Palestinian lives.
Also, Qatar is indirectly showing how Israel cares more about Palestinian lives and livelihoods than any Arab country does. If Israel was as anti-Palestinian as the haters claim, it would not care at all if Gazans have no shelter or food. But it is the Arabs who don’t care about Palestinian lives, and the only reason this threat makes any sense is because Qatar knows that Israel doesn’t want to see innocent Palestinians hurt.
Only Arabs do.
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