How Hamas is spending Qatari moneyProtection rackets provide “protection” for profit. Much of that profit, typically, is plowed back to the organization to render it even more powerful.A Palestinian Hamas-hired civil servant displays U.S. Dollar banknotes after receiving her salary paid by Qatar, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 7, 2018.(photo credit: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA/REUTERS)