Ben Cline hasn’t had anything to say publicly about the $400 million luxury plane gift given by the royal family of Qatar, a primary funding partner of the terrorist group Hamas, to Donald Trump.
This really comes as no surprise.
Though his silence does make you wonder if Cline’s throaty denunciations of Hamas and his posturing on pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the U.S. since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war in 2023 are genuine.
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“Today, I am proud to join my colleagues in support of bipartisan legislation that reaffirms the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security and condemns Hamas’ brutal war against our greatest democratic ally in the Middle East,” Cline posted on social media on Oct. 10, 2023, three days after the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel that initiated the war in Gaza.
The royal family of Qatar, which is gifting Trump the $400 million “flying palace,” has also gifted $1.8 billion to Hamas since Hamas took over the governing authority of the Gaza Strip way back in 2007.
Of note here: even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been on board with the Qatar-Hamas relationship.
Shocker, right?
Not when you consider that Netanyahu, who now wants to bomb Gaza into the Stone Age, and is pretty close to achieving that aim, wanted to boost Hamas as a political counterweight to the Palestinian Authority, the goal there being to prevent the eventual establishment of a Palestinian nation-state.
It’s all a game to the elites.
Back to Cline: on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, our congressman pretended to sympathize with the Israeli victims.
“Today, we remember the innocent lives lost and stand united with Israel as they defend their Nation from continued attacks and work to return the hostages still being held by Hamas, including seven Americans. Pray for peace and for continued strength for the people of Israel,” Cline wrote on social media on Oct. 7, 2024.
It’s hard to square this supposed genuine sentiment with Cline now not having an issue with the people responsible for keeping Hamas in power gifting a $400 million plane to the President of the United States.
At the least, couldn’t Trump just say, no, thanks for the kind offer, but while I’ve got your attention, how about you folks in Qatar stop giving money to Hamas?
And if he doesn’t do that, nothing is stopping Cline from saying, Mr. President, seriously.
Fast forward from Oct. 7, 2024 to Dec. 3, 2024, and this was Cline on social media:
“We are saddened by the tragic murder of Omer Neutra, an American-Israeli dual citizen whose body has been held by Hamas since their brutal attack on October 7, 2023. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. We must continue to stand with Israel, demand the release of all hostages, and hold Hamas accountable for their heinous acts.”
How about holding Hamas’s primary funder responsible?
Oh, that’s right. That would mean, no sweet plane for POTUS.
More pretense from Cline: he’s a co-sponsor of HR 176, styled the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025.
From Congress.gov:
“Under this bill, members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hamas or individuals who participated in or otherwise facilitated the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel may not be admitted into the United States.
“The bill also prohibits any non-U.S. national who participated in or otherwise facilitated the October 7, 2023, attacks from seeking any immigration-related relief or protections, including (1) protection from being deported to a country where the individual’s life or freedom would be threatened, or (2) asylum in the United States.
“The Department of Homeland Security must annually report to Congress the number of individuals found to be inadmissible or deportable due to their participation in or facilitation of the attacks.”
It’s a good thing for Trump that the language is specific to “any non-U.S. national,” because by accepting the gift of a $400 million plane from the primary funders of Hamas, it wouldn’t take much to interpret the provision in this legislation specific to “individuals who participated in or otherwise facilitated” the 2023 Hamas attacks as including Trump, whose family business just announced a $5.5 billion beachside golf development deal in Qatar, the latest in a string of business ties between the Trumps and the Qataris that go way back.
There are also inconvenient political ties. Trump’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who has signed off on the supposed legality of the luxury plane gift, was a $115,000-a-month lobbyist for the royal family of Qatar from 2020-2022.
Cline has had nothing to say about any of this, so, presumably, he’s OK with all of it.
Which is to say, our congressman, Ben Cline, is OK with the royal family that financed the terrorist attacks on Israel gifting a luxury plane to our president, and the attorney general, who made big money working for the royal family that financed the terrorist attacks on Israel, saying the gift is legal.
The rest of it – Cline supposedly standing with Israel, wanting to cut off funds for colleges and universities where students have been protesting Netanyahu’s strategy of trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the face of the earth – it’s just so much posturing.
We know where Ben Cline’s heart is on this – it’s with the elites who think wars are a joke, and give each other $400 million jets and $5.5 billion golf courses while people are dying.
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