Payroll sheikhs are also in Qatar.
Wikileaks cable: Qatari ruler ‘understands’ Israel’s mistrust of Arabs.
While the US is scrambling to close down the unauthorized flow of secret government documents to Wikileaks and to prosecute its founder, more surprising revelations surfaced regarding Israel and the region on Tuesday, including a diplomatic cable indicating that Qatar’s ruler does not blame Israel for lacking trust in its Arab neighbors.
Israel deserves credit for still seeking peace with the Palestinians in the face of the resurgent Hamas and Hizbullah terror militias, Qatari emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani told US Senator John Kerry in February, according to a classified dispatch disclosed by the Wikileaks Web site.
The diplomatic cable stated that the emir had said, “Israeli leaders need to represent the people of Israel, who themselves do not trust Arabs. The Emir said this is understandable and ‘we can't blame them’ because the Israelis have been ‘under threat’ for a long time.” He added it was actually surprising that Israelis still want peace given the boasting of Hizbullah and Hamas that they had driven Israeli forces out of Lebanon and Gaza respectively.
The Qatari leader also insisted that the time was ripe for an Israeli-Arab peace – and that in his opinion, the best way to achieve this was for the US to push for renewed Israeli-Syrian negotiations under Turkish mediation, which would in part help wean Damascus away from the Iranian orbit.
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"........In the following years, Qatar-Israeli relations remained stable. Qatar claims that it is able to engage politically with numerous political players on an equal footing as regional peace broker. In November 2012, Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip, destroying much of the infrastructure of the Strip. In a show of solidarity, the emir of Qatar visited the Gaza Strip in October 2012. Israel gave its permission for this visit, as a joint effort with the United States to redirect Hamas away from Iran and Syria and help them establish relationships with the more Western-oriented and Sunni-moderate Middle Eastern countries, such as Egypt, Turkey, and Jordan. Egypt, however, distanced itself again from Hamas after the military coup that ousted the Hamas-friendly government of Mohammed Morsi.
Qatar will continue its dialogue with Israel for strategic and economic reasons. Qatar’s relations with Israel are meant to strengthen its ties with the West, including the United States, and Qatar hopes that economic ties with Israel will lead to sales of its plentiful natural gas. The Qatari government is also interested in strengthening its high-tech sector by acquiring knowledge and technology and by encouraging Israeli high-tech companies to export jobs and development projects to Qatar rather than to India or Eastern Europe.
The amount of trade between Israel and Qatar has been modest: Israeli exports to Qatar amounted to 509,000 USD in 2012 (598,000 USD in 2008), and its imports from Qatar amounted to 353,000 USD in 2013 (2,141,000 USD in 2008), according to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Israeli exports to Qatar consisted mainly of machinery, computer equipment, and medical instruments, and its imports from Qatar were primarily plastics."
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Every Sheikh has a price, none are exempt. The irony is like Saudi Arabia, Qatar adheres to the Hanbal school of Islamic law that propagates obedience to the ruler, while they support the Muslim Brotherhood that calls for activism against all secular regimes and in theory never accepts feudal monarchies like Qatar. This is a genuine form of strange bedfellows. Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qadrawi, the spiritual leader of Muslim Brotherhood based in Doha, Qatar is a persona non grata in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain and these countries have all banned the Muslim Brotherhood. Meesha aad ka eegtaba iyo cid ay yihiinba, waa political power at all costs.