Qatar: To expel Hamas leadership for supporting Iranian attacks

[rylah]

The principle of ונהפכו ("and it was reversed") defines the story of Purim:
the day enemies planned to destroy us became the day we prevailed (Esther 9:1).

Qatar, long-time host to Hamas leaders plotting against Israel,
now expels them after Iran's attacks crossed their red lines.
From sheltering terror to kicking it out—classic Purim flip!
Things turn upside down when least expected.

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[1srelluc]

I bet the IDF will kill them all.

 

[rylah]

I bet the IDF will kill them all.

Or Qatar themselves,
as some say Iranians did Haniyeh...

 

[Lisa558]

The removal of the Persian villain who had a death decree against all Jews, and the removal of the modern-day Persian villain with the same objective, is such a parallel that it can’t be coincidence it happened during Purim.

Baruch Hashem!

 

[rylah]

Can Qatar Shed Islamism? | Hussein Mansour​

Qatar is at the center of the Middle East’s most dramatic strategic convulsion in a generation. Iranian drones have struck its energy infrastructure at Ras Laffan. An Iranian ballistic missile hit Al Udeid Air Base, the largest American military installation in the region. Israel struck a residential compound in Doha itself in September 2025, killing six people — the first Israeli strike ever carried out on a Gulf Cooperation Council member state — in an attempt to eliminate senior Hamas figures who have operated from Qatari soil for over a decade. The state that built its outsized regional influence on a careful architecture of relationships is watching that architecture crack in real time.

The question we should ask is whether Qatar will use this moment of crisis to do what its critics have demanded for years: sever its ties to political Islam, expel the Muslim Brotherhood networks it has funded and housed since the 1990s, abandon the Hamas patronage that made it indispensable as a mediator but also made it a target, and, perhaps, reposition as a clean, reliable American partner. The question sounds simple, but the answer is not.

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