President Biden’s ambassador to Qatar, Timmy Davis, ignoring the fact that the kingdom hosts the leadership of the terrorist group Hamas, saluted the kingdom of Qatar and insisted it had a great 2023, despite the fact that the Israeli hostages in Gaza have been held at the mercy of Hamas.
Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk, and Khaled Mashal all live comfortably in Doha, Qatar’s capital, where they maintain an office and where they celebrated the widespread massacre of Israeli Jews on October 7.
“As U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, I consider myself the most fortunate U.S. Ambassador in the world,” Davis tweeted. “The U.S.-Qatar partnership could not be stronger, and Qatar could not have done more than it did in 2023 to play an indispensable role on the world stage. To all Qatari citizens and residents, congratulations on Qatar National Day!”
As U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, I consider myself the most fortunate U.S. Ambassador in the world. The U.S.-Qatar partnership could not be stronger, and Qatar could not have done more than it did in 2023 to play an indispensable role on the world stage. To all Qatari citizens and… pic.twitter.com/UoO5QEegvc
— Ambassador Timmy Davis (@USAmbQatar) December 18, 2023
At the end of November 2023, the Biden administration’s State Department announced a $1 billion arms sale to Qatar, despite the Arab nation’s strong ties to groups the United States had listed as terrorist organizations.
Earlier that month, The Times of Israel noted that three neighboring countries, along with Egypt, severed ties with Doha in 2017, accusing it of financing terrorism.
Members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2017 accused Qatar of funding U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, as well as several extremist groups operating in Syria.
“Qatar has openly housed Hamas leaders, Taliban leaders, and has several individuals who have been sanctioned by our U.S. Treasury Department, and it has failed to prosecute them,” former Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) said during testimony. “At least one high-ranking Qatari official provided support to the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks against our country, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.”
“Many individuals and charities in Qatar have been known to raise large sums of money for al-Qaeda, the Nusra Front, Hamas, and even ISIS,” Ros-Lehtinen said. “In Qatar, there are three buckets: Terror financing by the government; terror financing done in Qatar through their own citizens that their government may not know about; and terror financing in Qatar that the government knows about but does nothing to stop.”