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> The Board of Regents decided to reassess the university’s physical presence in Qatar in fall 2023 due to the heightened instability in the Middle East. Is th
by pm90 2y ago
> The Board of Regents decided to reassess the university’s physical presence in Qatar in fall 2023 due to the heightened instability in the Middle East.
Is this a coded reference to the Israel-Hamas war? Why would that involve Qatar, which is thousands of miles away?
- cma 2y agoIsrael paid Hamas through Qatar according to NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
- pelagicAustral 2y agohttps://archive.is/EvmiL https://archive.is/EvmiL
- mullingitover 2y agoI think you posted the wrong link? This doesn't say Israel paid Hamas, it says Qatar (in the course of funding basic infrastructure like electricity in Gaza) did. Israel simply didn't stop them from doing it. If Israel had, people would be accusing them of killing Gazan civilians because Gaza wouldn't have electricity, and thus no functioning hospitals. Kind of a lose-lose for them. I can see why Texas A&M would want to exit a country that's currently sheltering Hamas leadership, however. Kind of a bad look.
- layer8 2y ago> Israel simply didn't stop them from doing it. That’s understating it a bit: Israel encouraged and blessed the payments, specifically seeing it as beneficial to strengthen the Hamas this way, and Mossad officials escorted the monthly cash transports.