The Taliban 5 are part of the peace delegation from Qatar.
Via Allen B. West
John Kerry is supposedly heading to Egypt to “broker” a cease-fire in the current conflagration between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza. I find it interesting that the United States wants to assist negotiations with a non-state, non-uniform belligerent terrorist organization. Furthermore, Egypt, who is engaged in a similar military offensive against the Muslim Brotherhood and jihadists in the Sinai, is actually choking off Hamas — the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. So maybe Egypt isn’t the best place to stage those negotiations after all.
As the UK Guardian reports, “International efforts to secure a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are focusing on the Gulf state of Qatar, whose close links to Hamas make it uniquely placed to try to mediate in a conflict that has highlighted Arab divisions in the face of Israeli attacks. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, was flying to Doha at the start of a round of emergency talks to try to halt the escalating carnage. Ban was due to meet the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and head of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. It was unclear whether Ban would also see the Hamas leader, Khaled Mishal, who lives in Doha. Mishal and Abbas were due to meet separately.”
So let me wrap my mind around this: Khaled Mishal, the leader of an Islamic terrorist organization, Hamas, is hanging out in Doha, Qatar. Qatar has close links to Hamas. Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, the head of the Palestinian Authority — Fatah, the original Palestinian terrorist organization — is headed to Doha, Qatar to meet with Hamas, with whom they have signed a reconciliation agreement. And the head of the United Nations is going to sit and talk with this gathering of terrorists to discuss what? And why would the head of the United Nations sit with Islamic terrorist organizations and lend them a sense of international recognition and credibility?
But I guess there’s an even deeper question. Isn’t this the same Qatar that took receipt of five senior Taliban leaders released as a result of a unilateral decision taken by President Barack Hussein Obama. Oops, I forgot. The Taliban have a “consulate” office in Qatar.