The government of Qatar had a surprise for President Trump on his recent visit to the Middle East.
That was the release of the last American-born hostage being held in Gaza.
Edan Alexander, 21, was freed by the Qatari-funded group Hamas as a gesture to Trump.
Two questions obviously arise from that “gesture.”
The first: If Hamas can just release hostages like this why won’t they release all of them, whether they were born in America or not?
The answer to that is clear: It is because the Qataris and Hamas don’t want to release all the hostages.
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.
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