“Qatar is the historic sponsor of Hamas at the request of the government of Israel and the United States,” says Alain Bauer

Guest of the Great Europe 1-Cnews interview, Alain Bauer, professor of criminology and author of “In the beginning was the war”, analyzes the preponderant place of Qatar in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas for the release of Israeli hostages captured during the attack of October 7. This Tuesday, an Israeli hostage released by Hamas said Tuesday that she “went through hell” during her kidnapping, brought into “a network of tunnels” by her captors, before being “treated well” during her captivity in the Gaza Strip.

The professor believes that it is necessary to stop “breaking Qatar’s feet because, for the moment, those who are playing with this are playing with the lives of our own hostages. I recommend a huge cure of silence on the Qatar”. “Qatar is the historic sponsor of Hamas at the request of the government of Israel and the United States,” the professor also declared, responding to criticism of the links between Hamas and Qatar.

The largest American base above ground

The criminology specialist thus analyzes the management of the links between Hamas and Qatar by the United States and Israel: “It was they who asked to resolve the political problem aimed at allowing (…) to lead a gang of Gaza which was becoming an adjustment variable, which was going to wait gently for the Abraham Accords to be made and for one day someone to take care of what is happening there.

He believes that Doha “had the good will and kindness to manage this affair by making ends meet for the Hamas territorial administration and to manage the Hamas political office in Doha. The Americans themselves say that thanks to Qatar, they have the largest American base above ground. ‘Thanks to Doha and Qatar, we are talking to people who we could not talk to but who we had to talk to,'” he concludes.