Israel attacked Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar today with an aerial attack. No word yet on any success of the mission, but one thing is sure, the Qatar leadership which fully supports Hamas is crapping their pants.
The US has a military base in Qatar that they value pretty highly, which is why Qatar’s Hamas terrorists there have been safe from Israeli attack. Since this has obviously ended, and very abruptly, the big question is Why?
One likely reason I can think of is that the US is moving their base to Israel. Somewhere in the Gaza Strip would be the most likely place, since Trump’s repeatedly made clear that he wants in on the real estate development. The Israelis may have cut a deal, move your base to Gaza and you get IDF protection, a base in a friendly nation instead of one that hates you and offers zero protection, and of course you reciprocate that protection for us if needed, and you can have a big part in rebuilding Gaza.
But, this is still developing, it just happened a few hours ago. Latest word from Israel is that the top five Hamas leaders were killed, the ones who orchestrated the Oct. 7 attack and are, or were, Hamas top leaders.
Another real possibility regarding the US involvement in Qatar is that the US told Qatar that they can no longer abide what Hamas is doing. Trump had warned Hamas that they had to make a deal or suffer consequences and it could be that he told Israel to go ahead and whack these people, and told Qatar to shut up about it if they wanted to keep that base there.
Revisions as they happen……