Israel hits Qatar

ronib

LizzieDrip Qatar is supporting Hamas. Hamas killed 6 Israelis at the bus stop. Yes Qatar shares responsibility.
NB Israel attacked Hamas in Qatar. Its headquarters . Okay by me.

What an extraordinary comment, and one only a supporter of a rogue state would make.

Anniebach

Tunisia’s interior ministry said reports of a drone hitting a boat in the port “have no basis in truth”, and that a fire broke out on the vessel itself.

Lies put out by Israel.

CariadAgain we have targeted the wrong country as a pariah. Israel won’t care a jot what the rest of the world thinks.

LizzieDrip Qatar is supporting Hamas. Hamas killed 6 Israelis at the bus stop. Yes Qatar shares responsibility.
NB Israel attacked Hamas in Qatar. Its headquarters . Okay by me.

Tunisia’s interior ministry said reports of a drone hitting a boat in the port “have no basis in truth”, and that a fire broke out on the vessel itself.

ronib

What is the point of criticising the Israeli government? How will that influence the war?

I shouldnt imagine a "government" wants to be treated as a pariah - any more than individual people do.

ronib

Babs03 my understanding is that Israeli attacked Qatar in retaliation for the 6 killed needlessly at the bus stop.
The point seems lost.

Why did Israel need to retaliate by bombing Qatar?

Was the government of Qatar responsible for the killing of 6 Israelis at a bus stop?

Whitewavemark2

GrannyGravy13

Whitewavemark2

The U.K. could have done the same to the IRA leaders - classed as terrorists.

Just lobbed a bomb onto Dublin.

Of course we didn’t lob bombs at the IRA, we left the bombing to them.

Hamas cannot be compared to the IRA.

I do not condone this bombing, and haven’t posted as such.

I have posted that Israel should have consulted with Qatar, and a different solution agreed to eliminate the Hamas leaders who ordered the 7th October atrocities.

The IRA and Hamas both consider themselves freedom fighters, both see the occupying force as the enemy, both classed as terrorists, both responsible for bombing the enemies country, both responsible for thousands of deaths, both took hostages.

If the IRA had carried out an attack along the lines of 7th October, who is to say how the U.K. government would have reacted?

I am not supporting Israelis actions in Qatar, or their failure to allow aid and observers into Gaza.

POTUS will not stop supporting Israel.

Netanyahu will not stop going after Hamas.

Hamas will not release the hostages.

These are the reasons I have avoided the Palestine/Israel threads recently. There is nothing a Gran from the UK can do to change the above.

Grantanow

I'm quite surprised Israel did not assassinate the Hamas leadership living in luxury in Qatar years ago. It could have decapitated the terrorist leadership before October 7th.

I'm wondering whether it's coincidental - or not - that this has come just when the aid flotilla is well en route to Palestine and the Israeli government has just used drones (on 2 separate occasions) to attack the main ship in the flotilla. Of course the Israeli government is lying its little head off and saying "They must have done it to themselves - eg with carelessness with a cigarette or something" - but I doubt most people are buying their lies on that.

Those attacks on the flotilla are to try and deter them from completing their mission and I reckon they decided to "throw in" a bit of "While we're on the subject - we'll have a go at Hamas - even though they are in Qatar (ie a sovereign state)".

I figure those two moves together are leading contenders for "Stupidest move they have made yet".

Just how many countries are that darn "government" going to have a go at? It's not a Guinness Book of Records thing of competing with other countries to see how many they can attack at once....

Israel typo

Babs03 my understanding is that Israeli attacked Qatar in retaliation for the 6 killed needlessly at the bus stop.
The point seems lost.

GrannyGravy13

Whitewavemark2

The U.K. could have done the same to the IRA leaders - classed as terrorists.

Just lobbed a bomb onto Dublin.

Of course we didn’t lob bombs at the IRA, we left the bombing to them.

Hamas cannot be compared to the IRA.

I do not condone this bombing, and haven’t posted as such.

I have posted that Israel should have consulted with Qatar, and a different solution agreed to eliminate the Hamas leaders who ordered the 7th October atrocities.

The IRA and Hamas both consider themselves freedom fighters, both see the occupying force as the enemy, both classed as terrorists, both responsible for bombing the enemies country, both responsible for thousands of deaths, both took hostages.

I am afraid that while trump remains POTUS, the world is going to hell in a handcart. Latest news is that Poland has shot down drones coming from Russia.

ronib

Would someone please express some sympathy for the six Israelis killed at the bus stop in Jerusalem? Or don’t they count?

Ronib discussing this is in no way deflecting attention away from the dreadful attack in Jerusalem, but we cannot in all reality preface every statement we make by our repugnance at oct 7th attacks and now this Jerusalem attack. Or this discussion will become sidelined very quickly.

Quote Babs03 Wed 10-Sept-25 09:26:03
Bloody Sunday was a dark day for the UK government, totally insupportable.
You see what I did there Annie, I critisized our government, just as I marched against it when an illegal war was waged on Iraq.
But this is where we part company because you cannot or will not critisize the Israeli government.

I don’t criticise or give support, i do try to understand why

What is the point of criticising the Israeli government? How will that influence the war?

Bloody Sunday was a dark day for the UK government, totally insupportable.
You see what I did there Annie, I critisized our government, just as I marched against it when an illegal war was waged on Iraq.
But this is where we part company because you cannot or will not critisize the Israeli government.

Would someone please express some sympathy for the six Israelis killed at the bus stop in Jerusalem? Or don’t they count?

Quote Whitewavemark2 Wed 10-Sept-25 08:52:05
The U.K. could have done the same to the IRA leaders - classed as terrorists.

Just lobbed a bomb onto Dublin.

True. The UK didn’t bomb Ireland , but can Bloody Sunday be dismissed?and other massacres carried out in Ireland?

Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre,[1] was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry,[n 1] Northern Ireland. Thirteen men were killed outright and the death of another man four months later was attributed to gunshot injuries from the incident. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, and some were shot while trying to help the wounded.[2] Other protesters were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, or batons; two were run down by British Army vehicles; and some were beaten.[3][4] All of those shot were Catholics. The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to protest against internment without trial. The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment ("1 Para"), the same battalion implicated in the Ballymurphy massacre several months before.[5]

ronib

Do you mean drones? MaizieD

I don’t think the God has drones at his disposal, ronib

Do we have experts here? Who can be in this frightening situation?

Is Israel just going to carry on saying " Ah well, Hamas are hiding there"

It's madness.

As an aside, my Polish friend tells me they are all very worried.

Do you mean drones? MaizieD

If we’re going to get biblical, ronib I believe the complete quote includes ‘Vengeance is minesaith the Lord’. Perhaps he would do better without any human intervention.

Perhaps the issue for Netanyahu is the phrase “peace talks”.

It would appear that peace is the last thing he wants.

With Trump in the WH, Netanyahu can act with impunity!

I am probably the only person in the UK who thinks this but here goes. Were 6 Israelis killed at a bus stop (of all places) in Jerusalem? The biblical eye for an eye seems to be in full operation in Netanyahu’s retaliation. You hit me and I hit you.
In any event, Qatar is complicit in harbouring Hamas terrorists. I have to say that I am ashamed and astonished by the response by the West to the 6 Israelis killed at a bus stop in Jerusalem.