Qatar's suspicious role in terror funding revealed.








On the same day the Qatari leadership sought to show its humanitarian side by sending medical aid to Lebanon in wake of the Beirut blast, Fox News reported on the Gulf state’s involvement in financing Hezbollah. The party, in turn, appears responsible for the blast, in what Fox News described as a “sprawling terror finance scheme.”

Doha has not only provided Hezbollah with funds to buy weapons, but its ambassador to the European Union sought to bribe a private security contractor to “hush up the role of Qatar’s regime in supplying money and weapons” to the party. Fox News revealed that two Qatari charities furnished cash to Hezbollah in Beirut “under the guise of food and medicine.”

Qatar’s role in providing funds to a party - that is designated as terrorist in many countries across the globe – and then feigning political interest by providing medical aid after a national catastrophe - which was caused by the practices of the very party itself - demonstrates the ideology adopted by Qatari authorities in approaching foreign political issues and meddling in the internal affairs of countries. This policy is much more dangerous than the direct funding of allies or exaggeratedly claiming adversity to rivals. Deceit is, after all, the political trademark of Qatari foreign policy.

Qatar’s policy is based on balancing contradictions. It is host to the largest American military base and openly flatters its president, while covertly inciting against the American administration through its media and diplomats. It financially and militarily supports the Houthis, while also taking part in the Arab coalition, before it was kicked out of it in June 2017. It signs a United Nations agreement that bars countries from supporting or financing terrorism, but is involved in backing terrorist groups after agreeing to pay a 1-billion-dollar ransom to an Iraqi terror organization. Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani claims to be leading a Qatari mediation in Bahrain after the 2011 developments, while he secretly orders the Wefaq organization to fuel protests on the streets.

These are just a few examples of Qatar’s contradictory moves that have become an integral part of its political ideology.

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