It has frequently been noted that the top Hamas leadership lived not in Gaza, but in wealth and safety in Doha, Qatar. The Qatari government told them to find someplace to stay, so most of them have headed for Turkey. A lot of their families live there, but I have to wonder how long the Turkish government will put up with these cretins.
Hamas officials booted by Qatar last week, now hosted in Turkey, diplomat says
Ankara, where many politburo members already live with their families, is a logical landing spot after Doha pulled out of talks, but Turkey risks running afoul of Biden administration
by Jacob Magid Monday, November 18, 2024 | 2:11 AM
Senior members of Hamas’s abroad leadership left Qatar last week for Turkey, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel on Sunday, after Doha said it was walking away from efforts to mediate an end to the war in Gaza.
The Arab diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, downplayed the significance of the move for the terror group, stressing that Hamas’s leadership abroad already spends much of its time in Turkey when they are not holding meetings in Qatar.
The departure of Hamas’s senior politburo from Doha was first reported by Israel’s Kan public broadcaster.
On November 8, the US revealed that it had asked Qatar to oust Hamas officials from Doha, which has hosted an office for the terror group since 2012, reportedly at Washington’s urging. The US said it made the request after Hamas rejected repeated hostage deal proposals and executed six captives, including an American citizen.
While it’s a good thing that Qatar kicked their sorry asses out, it poses a different problem. Turkey is a member of NATO, and if Israel strikes at the Hamas leadership in Turkey, it cannot be anything of a nature which triggers the ‘attack on one is an attack on all’ provision of the North Atlantic Treaty. President Biden asked all of the NATO nations to refuse to ho9st these cretins, but apparently President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan doesn’t care. But, the longer the Hamasniks are in his country, he will start to care; they are trouble wherever they go.
I notice that they didn’t go to very welcoming Iran.