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Hamas leaders are billionaires, rolling in the dough
American Thinker ^ | 11/08/23 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 11/08/2023 6:50:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Can someone explain to the rest of us why the leaders of Hamas, the world's evilest terrorist organization which has just murdered 1,400 innocent people, are actual billionaires living their best lives in Qatar?

According to the New York Post:

While their people languish in poverty and are treated as human shields, the leaders of Hamas live billionaire lifestyles.

The terror group’s three top leaders alone are worth a staggering $11 billion between them and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar. 

The emirate has long welcomed the leaders of the terror group and installed them in its luxury hotels and villas at the same time as hosting a vast American military presence.

They need to be like Osama bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, wearing rags and hiding in some stinking cave, staring at their stashes of child porn, not living large in Vegas-like Qatar.

Hamas runs an office in Qatar’s capital, Doha, and leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaled Mashal live a luxurious lifestyle.

They have been seen at its diplomatic club, photographed on private jets and traveled widely. The leadership would have been there for the 2022 soccer World Cup.

Instead, Hamas is loaded with characters like this guy, Hamas leader Khalid Mishal, who's worth more than $2 billion, living in the lap of luxury, and getting glamour shots in Vanity Fair and this magazine cover satire.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Iran; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Qatar; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: billionaires; hamas; iran; israel; lebanon; qatar; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 11/08/2023 6:50:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

BLM grifters can only dream of this ‘success’.


2 posted on 11/08/2023 6:56:34 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: SeekAndFind
Hamas leaders are billionaires, rolling in the dough

Make them DEAD billionaires.

3 posted on 11/08/2023 6:59:06 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Piss Off a Lib - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are like Union “bosses” in the US.


4 posted on 11/08/2023 7:01:12 AM PST by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is only one reason this is being allowed, multiple high ranking quislings in our own government are getting paid to allow it to happen.


5 posted on 11/08/2023 7:02:06 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: All

I checked the billionaire’s list.

This guy is not on it.

Story bogus.


6 posted on 11/08/2023 7:05:52 AM PST by Owen (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are living in luxury and opulence now, but they will spend eternity in Hell.

There is a price for everything and they will eventually have to pay the piper.

Most the pity for them.


7 posted on 11/08/2023 7:46:56 AM PST by Murder of Crows
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To: SeekAndFind

Th3y are gonna get more than $8 million more for the vp’s daughter too


8 posted on 11/08/2023 7:57:41 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Owen
I checked the billionaire’s list.
This guy is not on it.
Story bogus.


Well sure. Because they got their money totally legitimately by running legitimate successful businesses and would be on the billionaire lists like regular big name rich business people right? Come on. Of course they’re not on whatever list you checked. They got their billions as warlords, siphoning the money from the billions in aid that get dumped into Gaza. Why in the hell would they be on any legitimate billionaire list? Put 3 seconds of thought into it.
9 posted on 11/08/2023 8:10:14 AM PST by brent13a
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope Israel’s intelligence operatives find these guys and off ‘em.


10 posted on 11/08/2023 8:23:28 AM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: brent13a

Nah, I doubt that flies. The list is not of legitimate business money. It is of money. Ask yourself how such a list would be compiled. Forbes hunts down real estate and accounts and shareholdings.

If they have this money, they have to have it parked somewhere.

The wiki talks about videos the Mossad had produced talking about the corrupt billions of Hamas’ leadership. Dismissed as manufactured because they aired fake interviews with people who never sat for any interview.

The EU and constituent countries have sent 800ish million Euros in aid to the Palestinians, spent by Mahmoud Abbas, not Hamas, for various humanitarian this and that and that is since year 2000. Germany has pledged a few hundred million for projects it co-runs in Gaza. It’s not cash.

The guy lived in Jordan, then Syria, now Qatar. He is living a plush lifestyle, donated by Qatar functionaries who own the hotels. That doesn’t mean he has $2.5 billion.

Story bogus.


11 posted on 11/08/2023 10:50:15 AM PST by Owen (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mossad will knock these freaks off in due course. It will be very low key. Remember Munich!


12 posted on 11/08/2023 12:30:32 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Qatar has been playing games for decades:
Qatar Charity (QC) Founded in 1992; led for years by Sheikh Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani.
—In 1999, Russia’s interior ministry accused Qatar Charitable Society - as Qatar Charity was originally known - of funneling money from Qatar to radical Chechen al-Qaeda groups. The charity was believed to finance Al Qaeda off- shoots in Northern Mali and to be heavily involved in Syria.
— 2001 Bin Laden’s former business agent, Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, testified after defecting to the U.S. in 1996, that he personally cooperated with QC Abdullah Mohammed Yusef, the charity’s leader at that time. QC supported al-Qaeda from the Gulf area to Darfur, contributed financially to some of al-Qaeda’s operations. It was affiliated with Sudan’s National Islamic Front, a Sudanese group with strong ties to Islamist leader Hasan al=Turabi and Bin Laden.
— 2001 the Qatar Foundation funded an initiative in Doha that welcomed six American universities to build campuses in the complex. The Qatar Foundation, which has noted links to terrorism, pays all associated campus development costs. In 2009, Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the sixth son of the then-Emir of Qatar, graduated with the School’s first class. He later obtained a Masters from Harvard, which also partners with the Qatar Foundation.
— 2003 In congressional testimony Matthew Epstein and Evan Kohlmann declared that “by liquidating Charity bank accounts into untraceable cash withdrawals in war-torn states (often with no reliable banking systems), QCS [Qatar Charitable Society] was able to make this money simply disappear.” However, no subterfuge would allow either the charity or the Qatari government to hide evidence collected over the past ten years that irrefutably proves Qatar Charity’s key role in financing extremist terrorism worldwide.
-— 2003 Wikileaks. July 10, ...in late 2002 a new QCS Chairman, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman al Thani, was named. In addition to his position with QCS, Sheikh Abdulaziz also serves as the Chairperson of the Royal Family Council, which has the constitutional mandate of investing the nation’s ruler. The US Treasury Department designating QCS could be interpreted as a slur against Sheikh Abdulaziz and the ruling al Thani family as a whole.
— 2009 May 12, Qatar Charity is also an entity of concern to the USG due to some of its suspect activities abroad and reported links with extremists. In March 2008, Qatar Charity was listed as a priority III terrorism support entity (TSE) by the Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism (IICT), after having demonstrated intent and willingness to provide financial support to terrorist organizations willing to attack US persons or interests, or provide witting operational support to Priority I-II terrorist groups.
— 2011 QC is blacklisted by Israel.
— 2011 a University of Copenhagen paper (M.J.Petersen) found in a study of Islamic charities that Qatar Charity had the Islamic World’s eighth largest annual operating budget.
— 2013 French intelligence noted that Qatar Charity was funding a group in Mali connected with Al Qaeda.
— 2013 Qatar Charity signs an agreement with Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to support of a six-year World Health Organization plan to eradicate polio globally.
— 2013 Washington Institute for Near East Policy reported that Qatar Charity assistance had made its way to the Syrian Islamic Front, an umbrella group of powerful jihadist organizations active in the Syrian Civil War opposing the Assad regime. In addition, in June 2013 the Iranian news agency FARS quoted a diplomat who claimed Qatar had funneled $5 billion to Syrian rebels through the Charity, of which $3 billion was disposed by the rebels under Qatar’s direct supervision. (CATF Reports Aug. 19, 2015)
— 2014 From wikileaks general reporting on Qatar: “One of the leaked Podesta emails from August 2014, addressed to John Podesta, identifies Qatar and Saudi Arabia as providing “clandestine,” “financial and logistic” aid to ISIL and other “radical Sunni groups.” The email outlines a plan of action against ISIL, and urges putting pressure on Qatar and Saudi Arabia to end their alleged support for the group. Whether the email was originally written by Hillary Clinton, her advisor Sidney Blumenthal, or another person is unclear. In response to these allegations, on September 25, 2014, the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, went on American television to defend his country against claims that it harbors terrorist financiers. In an interview on CNN, the Emir stated that Qatar does not fund terrorists and is committed to fighting ISIS for the long term.
— February 2015 The Sudan Tribune reported on February 11 statements by an official of the Minni Minnawi liberation movement named Yahia Sadam,. He denounced Qatar’s financial support of the systematic genocide perpetrated by the Sudanese militiamen in Darfur allegedly channeled through Qatar Charity, an organization active in Darfur since 2010. QC Darfur director was reported to be living with the Sudanese army in Nyala, south Darfur. Reportedly, QC was “building housing complexes in remote and isolated areas to harbor and train extremist groups.” The camps were believed to be hosting Islamists involved in terrorist events in Chad and Libya.
— June 2015. Qatar Charity establishes first Islamic Center in Luxembourg. Center was thought to have ties to other dominated Muslim Brotherhood Centers in Europe.
— May 2016, Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani, a member of the Qatari royal family, traveled to Italy, where QC reportedly donated 25 million euros over three years for the construction of mosques and Islamic centers. These donations led to questions over how religious instruction will be implemented in the religious centers. In 2016, Italian Senator Giacomo Stucchi sent a petition to the Italian government to investigate the sources of the funds from Qatar Charity used to finance a project in Northern Italy due to concerns of Qatar Charity’s reputation and activities.
— August 2017 UAE discoses that the Government of Qatar orchestrates plots to destabilise the UAE’s security. A former radical arrested in Indonesia for forging identification documents was turned over to the UAE security agencies. He revealed that Qatar had provided facilities to the Muslim Brotherhood, harboured its members..., facilitated the movement of its members. He was also responsible for carrying funds to the organisation and money from Qatar to the fugitive members in the UAE. ... He termed Qatar’s charitable work through its charity organisations as an instrument for feeding and sponsoring terrorist groups across the world. “The Muslim Brotherhood was connected with Qatari charitable organisations by way of sending philanthropists’ funds to needy countries, but in fact, the money was used to strengthen the Muslim Brotherhood in these countries,” he said.
— October 2017 A talk show broadcasted on Egypt’s TV showed footage of a document said to be an official message from Qatari Minister of Finance Ali Sharif Al Emadi to the Chairman of the Qatar Charity Sheikh Hamad Bin Nasser Al Thani. The document disclosed secret financial transactions between the Qatar Charity and the Defense Ministry indicating the Qatari NGO used donations in supporting undeclared military activities. 0The document raised controversy about independency of the Qatari NGO which was listed among 12 entities and 59 individuals labeled terrorist by the Anti-Terrorism Quartet (ATQ) – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain – in June for supporting different terrorist organizations. The list included the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader and Qatar resident Yousef Al Qaradawi, and some Qatari-funded charities such as QC and Eid Charity.
etc., etc., etc.


13 posted on 11/08/2023 1:43:15 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

This crappy duplicitous sleazebag country, if you can call it that, still practices what is essentially slavery via the kafala system of indentured serfdom. And yet the U.S cozies up to the fukkers.


14 posted on 11/08/2023 2:11:19 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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