The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood and Sunni Anti-Shiism in the Arab and Muslim World
Rambo: That’s where Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, is now - in Qatar.
Back in the 90’s when Mossad hunted him down and poisoned him, Palestinians demanded that Israel provide not only the antidote but the formula for the antidote as well. Israel refused but did provide the antidote for the poison that save Meshaal’s life. Don’t forget.
A few years ago Saudi Arabia wanted to go to war with Qatar (right on Saudi Arabia’s border) because they had too close an alliance with Iran since Iran and Qatar share a huge natural gas field.
The Jordanians demanded the antidote, not the Palestinians. I think now they would just let him die.
Also, Qatar supports the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Hamas is the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood. Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt all hate the MB, not because the MB are evil or crazy or extreme but simply because they are competitors.
They're all Islamists and the MB isn't really any more Islamist than Saudi Arabia or UAE. Hamas is remarkably less Islamist than th…
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