Hamas Can’t Be Stopped Unless America Puts Pressure on Qatar

Currently, the Israeli minister of strategic affairs Ron Dermer is in the U.S. to discuss negotiations for phase two of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal with the American envoy Steve Witkoff. Although, after 504 days, Hamas still has not released all the hostages, and Qatar has not arrested Hamas leaders living under its protection or frozen their bank accounts, the emirate will play a key role as mediator in these negotiations. It should be apparent by this time that Qatar has not made any serious threats to these arch-terrorists. (Besides extradition to the U.S. or Israel, Qatar could threaten to transport them to Lebanon or Syria, where the IDF could easily eliminate them.) In short, this nominal American ally is not a good-faith partner.