Update : Qatar shuts Israeli trade office
Just a quick update to my previous post on Qatar suspending ties with Israel. The AFP reports that:
DOHA (AFP) — Qatar ordered the closure of Israel's trade office in Doha over the Jewish state's war on Gaza, Qatar's official news agency reported on Sunday, citing a foreign ministry official.
"The ministry has summoned the head of Israel's trade office in Doha and gave him an official memorandum of Qatar's decision to close the bureau," the agency quoted the official as saying.
Qatar, previously the only Gulf Arab state with Israeli trade ties, said officials working at the Jewish state's trade office, open since 1996, have seven days to leave the country.
Qatar and Mauritania decided on Friday to "suspend" their relations with Israel at an Arab summit in Doha called to discuss the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, a Mauritanian diplomat told AFP.
I think it sends a clear message but will it make a difference?
Well done for standing up for principles and saying the right thing. Its nice to read someone who can construct a lucid argument and make a point without resorting to ignorant dogmatic rantings.
Keep up the good work.
Just call me Tigasin. That's what I'm talking about
Really what they are doing here?
they are popular for arms dealing.
I am new to this forum and to this particular thread. I find that I strongly agree with kismet and platao36 on this subject.
Good work!
Good decision...
~noms~
"Before God we are all equally wise ' and equally foolish" - Albert Einstein
Lets see how far this goes...
~noms~
"Before God we are all equally wise ' and equally foolish" - Albert Einstein
Panda: He's probably one of those that give bad name to muslims.
Ayman
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
madad, this is an open forum and you don't need to use the VERY BAD words to expess yourself it's shame on you!!!!
where are from btw? I don't think yuo are palestinian!
madad. Oh dear, dear.
>>>"Now i can understand if you appreciate the jews why don't you go and establish your self in their settlement on Palestinian grounds ?"
One: the fact that I appreciate Thai food doesn't mean I have to move to Thailand.
Two: My comments are not about being pro Jewish (BTW, Jewish doesn't equal Israelis, did you know that?) or pro Palestinians. They are against war and taking sides.
>>"Do you think it is enough to take a nickname like kismet makes you a Muslim or an Arab?"
God NO. I'm not a Muslim, I'm not an Arab, I never intend to be any. I'm Christian and European and I feel good with it!
>>"Do you think it is enough to take a nickname like kismet enables you to take the liberty of pouring out your feelings with a Jewish homosexual video as stamp ?"
What Jewish homosexual video? You mean The Office video in my signature? What's Jewish about it? What's homosexual about it? Anyway, I don't mind either Jews or homosexuals. Do you have a problem with that?
>>continue to have fun while internet allows you to hide your true identity, it will not be forever.
Shall I take it as a threat?
And all my friends know my opinions, so no, I don't hide behind any nicknames.
Kismet
Darwin was an equal-opportunity evolutionist. It wasn't just the Jews that came from the apes, habib; it's all of us. :-)
Hnimals are humans you say ?
According to the Quraan and the work of Darwin Jews are descendants of monkeys indeed.
english only please
Your question is out of subject lady.
Now i can understand if you appreciate the jews why don't you go and establish your self in their settlement on Palestinian grounds ?
You will keep enjoying them as you desire.
I have 2 little questions for you Kismet :
Do you think it is enough to take a nickname like kismet makes you a Muslim or an Arab?
Do you think it is enough to take a nickname like kismet enables you to take the liberty of pouring out your feelings with a Jewish homosexual video as stamp ?
continue to have fun while internet allows you to hide your true identity, it will not be forever.
i think that qatar should not kick them out it should put them it public place and let arabs show them the meaning of violance.
Israel is the biggest terrorist in the world
Israel kills Palestinian children and women
And destroyed hospitals, schools, houses and buildings and shooting doctors and ambulances belonging to the civil institutions and organizations of the United Nations and destroy everything, without ethics or humanitarian
Airsupply: "I have no idea about air supply's opinion in you, and I can't confirm if you were a woman, but I can surely confirm that you are not a man ;-)"
D*m! Guess you found my secret, I'm an angel but i was ordered not to say anything to anyone but now you have found out my cover, now i can't hide myself from the mortals i was supposed to keep an eye on. :P
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Airsupply: You insinuating that i'm a woman?
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Salax: Lol, exactly what i was talking about, guess he got banned with those comments and he should be banned pretty soon, again.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
hmmm, Cuteri= Troll, another nick for airsupply?
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Kismet means fate :)
Or "the will of Allah"
Kismet
airsupply: just like PM said, we all know you.
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
I just hope that when comes the time to be Judged by God, that all those that insult and attack blinjdly anyone that doesn't agree with them, on other words, i agree with PM and Kismet.
NotQatari/airsupply/qatari/abu abu: How long till you get banned again?
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
Yes, criminal israel, that is a very intelligent thing you had said. I'm rally impressed with your intellectual input to this discussion
BTW, what is "kismat"? :P
Kismet
removed by mod
PM, looks like, sadly :(
Kismet
- and the funny/sad thing is that most folks who subscribe to that "Israelis and Jews are animals" notion have never even met an Israeli or a Jew!
Or, ironically, that they HAVE met one and just don't know it!! LOL!
Thanks r7,
That does explain things.
What I had said is that I don't know where aissa sees anger in my posts because all I had said is not to be so racist. Not to put all Israelis into one pot, not to hate all of them because some of them make war. Like PM said, five fingers.
There is so much more anger from others in this thread but aissa chose to pick on me because I guess I dared to express my opinion that differs to others'.
I actually don't take any side in this conflict, I am against the war full stop.
And I also said to Qatari that why is "racist" more offensive than saying "Israelis are animals"? Calling people "animals" is a preferred language in QL?
Kismet
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/343950#comments
The above link should clear things up for you !
There was a problem with the site over the weekend which caused some posts to be deleted by various users..
And now for some reason my post was deleted?
How nice that is. I wonder why?
Could somebody explain to me?
Because I didn't break any QL rules, so please let me know why?
Kismet
You need to go to Gaza and take with you your ((lovely israils with you ))and see what type of animlas they are! and if you like them so much may be you are like them ,i had my study in the USA and USA citizn are nice but the country is controlled by the jew
cheers!
The israils are controling your country and you are one of the israils slave ,so i hop you go there to israil and let me see how they will treat you over there ,
so mind with your country problems and try to help your self .
israils are animals
I think you're right!
"dgoodrebel will always be the rebellious good one"
The closing of the Israeli trade mission here in Qatar was a gesture -- meant to placate the masses who were so disturbed by what was happening in Gaza, as well as to assuage Iran, a long-time backer of Hamas (as well as Hezbollah) and the most vocal and vociferous opponent of Israel.
If you noticed, neither KSA nor Egypt attended the emergency summit here last weekend to discuss the situ in Gaza. But Syria was here, and Iran too -- and they didn't send some low-level minister, they sent their presidents!! How's that for sending a message about how seriously they viewed the situation?
In the end, it's all politics. The day after the emergency summit, Israel announced a unilateral cease-fire. Twelve hours later Hamas followed suit. Kind of too little, too late....
Qatar bought itself some wasta with Iran by kicking out the Israelis, and it gained a whole bunch of PR points with the general Arab public. But at the end of the day, not much has changed.
THIS AN EXAMPLE OF PROPAGANDA MADE BY..
Well the post I was responding to disappeared.
thats a very good news. i mean why does Qatar have to trade with Israelis when Qatar MashaAllah has good ties with the whole world. for Qatar i would like to say is that there is very big world out there. If not traded with Israel then there wouldn't be any loss either. Its not allowed for the Muslims to trade with the Israelis.
I see lots of hate in your comments.
there are lots of people that have different point of view, you can not just start insulting them, and all other arabs. Manage your anger... may be we can get your point of view clearly...
Aissa
How can you see both sides and you can not say that Israelis are not killers,
please give me the other side,
more than 1300 people were dead in 21 days from Palestinians, more than 4000 injured 50% children and women, more than 20,000 houses were totally damaged.
Forbidden bombs were used on civilians.
God Bless Qatar and wish that all arabs do the same.
Aissa
"You people are racists...You are full of hate"
Such language is not prefered on this website.
if i supported those terrorists then by all means you can speak what you want, when you have the majority of israelis supporting the war on gaza, and supporting the cruel and inhumane blockade of gaza then you simply can not criticize me and others who speak out against israelis and israel as a state. we are not speaking out against jews, i have great respect for the jewish men and women some even Israeli citizens that marched in london about a week ago, with pictures of people burning their Israeli passport in protest to the way their country carried out its ethnic cleansing war, i am speaking out against zionism, those who live in israel, support the war, and cry out for more blood, israel is a state built on hate, hatred towards all those non jewish, hamas or no hamas, israel through out its modern history, has committed major crimes against arabs, and palestinians, yet arabs to this day still propose new tactics to try and establish peace in the region, right down to the last one in 2002...and israel response was to bomb jenin the day after........and yet we are racists and cruel for criticizing them....
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3653393,00.html
take a look at that site, its an Israeli site, it shows you some poll facts about Israelis and their attitudes towards the war, and towards peace.....this is not a country that is known for its openness and pro peace methods.......
Abuimad, I am also continually astinonished at the intractable inability of (most of) the Israelis to ever see the other side. But then they have been exposed to the best propaganda machine in the world for so long. It's amazing what that kind of a focused, relentless, one-point campaign can do. But, I must add that most Israelis have been personally affected by a suicide bombing. They will tell you that this is the source of their anger and motivation for their actions.
Mandi
No, speak up not only when somebody hurts your family.
Speak up AGAINST THE WAR, NOT AGAINST PEOPLE.
Abuimad, you are Arab in the first place. Would you like me to speak up AGAINST YOU and against Arabs because you are an Arab and some Arabs happen to be terrorists?
Or shall I speak AGAINST TERRORISM?
Before you throw that stone, think.
Kismet
I second Abuimad's thoughts, are you sugguesting one should only raise hand or speak up if someone hurt your own family... if yes very shame.
we will strongly condem even if someone kills non muslims inconncents....
approval of the war till the last day in israel was over 90%, A) Israelis are just that dumb that they dont realize the atrocities happening in gaza will eventually bite them in the ass sooner or later, B) they are inhumane, or void of human feelings....so excuse us or me for feeling anger and frustration towards israel and its people, but i am an arab american, arab first, and over 1300 fellow arabs have been killed in 21 days, and while the world screamed for them to stop, they just escalated, so dont you dare tell us to not hate..... israeli people are responsible for their army's actions, especially when the support towards the IDF skyrocketed during the war....
Kismet: Right in the spot, been trying to explain that by hating this way, they are kust putting themselves at the same level of those that caused all this misery
Only God Can Judge Me
الله فقط يمكنه محاكمتي
I am you and you are me, if you love i love, if you suffer i suffer
أنا أنت, و أنت أنا, إذا أحببت نفسك أحببت نفسي, إذا عانيتَ عانيتُ
You people are racists. You are no better than those killing over there, in the war.
Pest control? Terrible to allow Israelis to function here? Kick them out?
Have they done anything to YOU? Have they killed anybody?
You are full of hate, like those who start wars.
Kismet
We'll see what obama does when he becomes president tomorrow
They will be back, once this conflict is over.
CI now you killed me...i am laughing dead here
Please some one call 4 pest control , shit.com is everywhere
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Finally!!!
Kick them out immediately, why 1 week time?
i will consider that as a joke.
Good question Alexa WTH are we trading..O yes is it let me guess..M&S and other big Jewish companies...
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HE WHO DARES WINS
their old office used to be behind Rumailah Hospital
but later they moved from there.
so means they are still here in Doha working.