Saudia, Bahrain, UAE & Egypt cut diplomatic ties with Qatar

[NoOne'sBoy]

supposedly created by Donald Trump’s preposterous attendance at the Saudi Muslim summit two weeks ago.

I could only wish he was this intelligence but sadly I couldn't even dream of such a thing without slapping myself to miserable reality.

 

[The SC]

Qabas # Kuwait quoted sources: # Saudi Arabia put as a condition the return to the # Riyadh agreement of 2014, and refuses to discuss easing sanctions on # Qatar before a final solution is found.

Government of Qatar after the death of King Abdullah, may God have mercy on him, violated the covenants under the pretext that the owner of the agreement has been gone.

Beating in # Qatar and crying in # Turkey ..

https://twitter.com/NMeleihi

 

[NoOne'sBoy]

Guess this is the end of Al Jazeera? In a way good news.

 

[Arabi]

Arab Countries release a list of terrorist financiers supported by Qatari-Turkish alliance.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain have collectively designated 59 individuals and 12 institutions that have financed terrorist organizations and received support from Qatar.

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain are unified in their ongoing commitment to combatting terrorism, drying up the sources of its funding, countering extremist ideology and the tools of its dissemination and promotion, and to working together to defeat terrorism and protect all societies from its impact.,” according to a statement made available to Al Arabiya News Channel.

“As a result of the continued violation by the authorities in Doha of the obligations and agreements signed by them, including the pledge not to support or harbor elements or organizations that threaten the security of states and to ignore the repeated contacts that they called upon to fulfill what they had signed in the Riyadh Agreement of 2013, its implementing mechanism and the supplementary agreement in 2014; The four States have agreed to classify 59 individuals and 12 entities on their prohibited lists of terrorists, which will be updated in succession and announced,” the statement added.

The majority of those entities sanctioned are linked to Qatar and are a manifestation of a Qatari Government policy of duplicity.

 

[Oublious]

Arab Countries release a list of terrorist financiers supported by Qatari-Turkish alliance.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain have collectively designated 59 individuals and 12 institutions that have financed terrorist organizations and received support from Qatar.

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and the Kingdom of Bahrain are unified in their ongoing commitment to combatting terrorism, drying up the sources of its funding, countering extremist ideology and the tools of its dissemination and promotion, and to working together to defeat terrorism and protect all societies from its impact.,” according to a statement made available to Al Arabiya News Channel.

“As a result of the continued violation by the authorities in Doha of the obligations and agreements signed by them, including the pledge not to support or harbor elements or organizations that threaten the security of states and to ignore the repeated contacts that they called upon to fulfill what they had signed in the Riyadh Agreement of 2013, its implementing mechanism and the supplementary agreement in 2014; The four States have agreed to classify 59 individuals and 12 entities on their prohibited lists of terrorists, which will be updated in succession and announced,” the statement added.

The majority of those entities sanctioned are linked to Qatar and are a manifestation of a Qatari Government policy of duplicity.

Donkey monkeys in action, ther is no single Turkish word but title ahahah.

 

[The SC]

# Saudi Arabia and # Egypt and # UAE and # Bahrain in a statement: 59 individuals and 12 entities linked to Qatar are classified in the list of prohibited terrorism organisations and Terrorism Financing #

Individuals:

1. Khalifa Mohammed Turki Al-Subaie - Qatari
2. Abdelmalek Mohammed Yousef Abdel Salam - Jordanian
3. Ashraf Mohammed Yusuf Othman Abdel Salam - Jordanian
4. Ibrahim Eissa Al-Hajji Mohammed Al-Baker - Qatari
5. Abdulaziz bin Khalifa Al-Attiyah - Qatari
6. Salem Hassan Khalifa Rashid Al-Kuwari - Qatari
7. Abdullah Ghanem Muslim Al-Khawar - Qatari
8. Saad bin Saad Mohammed Al-Kaabi - Qatari
9. Abdullatif bin Abdullah Al-Kuwari - Qatari
10. Mohamed Said Bin Helwan Al-Sakthary - Qatari
11. Abdul Rahman bin Omair Al-Nuaimi - Qatari
12. Abdul Wahab Mohammed Abdul Rahman Al-Hmeikani - Yemeni
13. Khalifa Bin Mohammed Al Rabban - Qatari
14. Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani - Qatari
15. Abdel Rahim Ahmed Al-Haram - Qatari
16. Hajjaj bin Fahad Hajjaj Mohammed Al-Ajmi - Kuwaiti
17. Mubarak Mohammed Al-Ajji - Qatari
18. Jaber bin Nasser Al-Marri - Qatari
19. Yousef Abdullah Al-Qaradawi - Egyptian
20. Mohammed Jassim Al-Sulaiti - Qatari
21. Ali Bin Abdullah Al Suwaidi - Qatari
22. Hashem Saleh Abdullah Al Awadhi - Qatar
23. Ali Mohammed Mohammed Al-Salabi - Libyan
24. Abdelhakim Belhadj - Libyan
25. Mahdi Harati - Libyan
26. Ismail Mohammed Mohammed Al-Salabi - Libyan
27. Al-Sadiq Abdulrahman Ali Al-Ghuraini - Libyan
28. Hamad Abdullah Al-Futtais Al-Marri - Qatar
29. Mohamed Ahmed Shawky Islambouli - Egyptian
30. Tariq Abdulmajoud Ibrahim Al-Zomor - Egyptian
31. Mohamed Abdelmaksoud Mohamed Afifi - Egyptian
32. Mohamed El Saghir Abdel Rahim Mohamed - Egyptian
33. Wajdi Abdelhamid Mohamed Ghoneim - Egyptian
34. Hassan Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Al Dokki Al Houti - UAE
35. Governor of Abysan Al-Humaidi Al-Mutairi - Saudi / Kuwaiti
36. Abdullah Mohammed Sulaiman Al-Moheiseni - Saudi
37. Hamed Abdullah Ahmed Al-Ali - Kuwaiti
38. Ayman Ahmed Abdel Ghani Hassanein - Egyptian
399. Assem Abdel Maged Mohamed Mady - Egyptian
40. Yahya Aqil Salman Aqeel - Egyptian
41. Mohamed Hamada El Sayed Ibrahim - Egyptian
42. Abdel Rahman Mohamed Shokry Abdel Rahman - Egyptian
43. Hussein Mohamed Reza Ibrahim Youssef - Egyptian
44. Ahmed Abdelhafif Mahmoud Abdelhady - Egyptian
45. Muslim Fouad Tafran - Egyptian
46. Ayman Mahmoud Sadeq Rifat - Egyptian
47. Mohamed Saad Abdel-Naim Ahmed - Egyptian
48. Mohamed Saad Abdel Muttalib Abdo Al-Razaki - Egyptian
49. Ahmed Fouad Ahmed Gad Beltagy - Egyptian
50. Ahmed Ragab Ragab Soliman - Egyptian
51. Karim Mohamed Mohamed Abdel Aziz - Egyptian
52. Ali Zaki Mohammed Ali - Egyptian
53. Naji Ibrahim Ezzouli - Egyptian
54. Shehata Fathi Hafez Mohammed Suleiman - Egyptian
55. Muhammad Muharram Fahmi Abu Zeid - Egyptian
56. Amr Abdel Nasser Abdelhak Abdel-Barry - Egyptian
57. Ali Hassan Ibrahim Abdel-Zaher - Egyptian
58. Murtada Majeed Al-Sindi - Bahraini
59. Ahmed Al-Hassan Al-Daski - Bahraini

Entities:

1. Qatar Voluntary Work Center - Qatar
2. Doha Apple Company (Internet and Technology Support Company) - Qatar
3. Qatar Charity - Qatar
4. Sheikh Eid Al Thani Charity Foundation - Qatar
5. Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services - Qatar
6. The defense of Benghazi - Libya
7. Saraya Al Ashtar - Bahrain
8. Coalition February 14 - Bahrain
9. The Resistance Brigades - Bahrain
10. Hezbollah Bahrain - Bahrain
11. Saraya Al Mukhtar - Bahrain
12. Ahrar Bahrain - Bahrain Movement


https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/arab-and-world/gulf/2017/06/09/بيان-سعودي-مصري-إمارتي-بحريني-حول-دعم-قطر-للإرهاب.html

The Islamic World League supports the classification issued today by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for the lists of prohibited terrorism.

http://ouo.io/s/wQg3UMvv/?s=https://twitter.com/MWLOrg
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# Turkey # Erdogan endorses the decision to deploy Turkish troops in Qatar

 

[matmat26]

Qatar is a strategic country for Turkey. Turkey is investing in the LNG infrastructure of 15 billion dollars. Qatar supplies natural gas to Turkey at an affordable price and also transfers its resources back to Turkey. I mean money. Turkey Qatar seeks to gain energy independence along with the Mediterranean gas. At the end of this year, Turkey will begin drilling in the Mediterranean Cyprus. Turkey enters the war for this. This situation is not related to brotherhood religion or other ties. A process that will make Turkey completely independent. Qatar and Mediterranean natural gas are very important and interrelated to Turkey. It is in Pakistan with Turkey. Energy and Qatar can provide it at a very cheap price. Pakistan can lend billions of dollars to its LNG infrastructure. Pakistan is against its own national interests against Qatar.

 

[The SC]

# Terrorist financing to divide the countries of the region and the collapse of regimes and the generalization of its actions from the complete collapse of sister countries and the spread of civil wars is a declaration of war.

http://ouo.io/s/wQg3UMvv/?s=https://twitter.com/saudq1978


Qatar is full of intellectuals, yet the authority has made MK (Israeli Knesset member) Azmi Bishara the spiritual father of the it's policy because they will not find a country that accepts a "terrorism-financing"

http://ouo.io/s/wQg3UMvv/?s=https://twitter.com/saudq1978

 

[Falcon29]

Qatar 'not prepared to change its foreign policy'

Qatar will never surrender to the pressure being applied by its Arab neighbours and won't change its independent foreign policy to resolve disputes that have put the region on edge, Qatar's foreign minister has told Al Jazeera.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the remarks in Doha on Thursday, just days after Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and several other countries cut relations with Qatar.

They accuse Qatar of supporting armed groups and their regional rival, Iran. Qatar says the charges are baseless.

"We are not ready to surrender, and will never be ready to surrender, the independence of our foreign policy," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said.

He also said Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani would not leave the country while it was "in blockade", and therefore could not attend an offered mediationby US President Donald Trump at the White House.

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[The SC]

Qatar 'not prepared to change its foreign policy'

Qatar will never surrender to the pressure being applied by its Arab neighbours and won't change its independent foreign policy to resolve disputes that have put the region on edge, Qatar's foreign minister has told Al Jazeera.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the remarks in Doha on Thursday, just days after Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and several other countries cut relations with Qatar.

They accuse Qatar of supporting armed groups and their regional rival, Iran. Qatar says the charges are baseless.

"We are not ready to surrender, and will never be ready to surrender, the independence of our foreign policy," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said.

He also said Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani would not leave the country while it was "in blockade", and therefore could not attend an offered mediationby US President Donald Trump at the White House.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/qatar-fm-ready-surrender-170608142453812.html
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He knows better, he staged a coup against hid father when he was abroad!

 

[T-Rex]

Qabas # Kuwait quoted sources: # Saudi Arabia put as a condition the return to the # Riyadh agreement of 2014, and refuses to discuss easing sanctions on # Qatar before a final solution is found.

Government of Qatar after the death of King Abdullah, may God have mercy on him, violated the covenants under the pretext that the owner of the agreement has been gone.

Beating in # Qatar and crying in # Turkey ..

https://twitter.com/NMeleihi

We have news for the masters of Daesh and their minions!

Qatar 'not prepared to change its foreign policy'
Foreign minister says Qatar has never experienced such hostility even from an enemy country.

Qatar will never surrender to the pressure being applied by its Arab neighbours and won't change its independent foreign policy to resolve disputes that have put the region on edge, Qatar's foreign minister has told Al Jazeera.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the remarks in Doha on Thursday, just days after Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and several other countries cut relations with Qatar.

They accuse Qatar of supporting armed groups and their regional rival, Iran. Qatar says the charges are baseless.

"We are not ready to surrender, and will never be ready to surrender, the independence of our foreign policy," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said.

He also said Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani would not leave the country while it was "in blockade", and therefore could not attend an offered mediation by US President Donald Trump at the White House.

READ MORE: Qatar diplomatic crisis - All the latest updates

Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, reporting from Doha, said Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman was defiant and stressed that Qatar could live under embargo for ever.

"He said Qatar has the backing of the international community and that they will manage to mitigate the consequences of this crisis," our correspondent said.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said that "measures had been taken by the Qatari government to ensure that the standards provided to the people will be maintained".

He said Qatar had not yet been presented with a list of demands by the countries that cut off ties with the country on Monday, but he insisted it be solved by peaceful means.

"There cannot ever be a military solution to this problem," he said.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman further said that the contingent of Turkish troops set to deploy to Qatar was for the sake of the entire region's security.

LNG gas agreements
Meanwhile, Qatar will respect the LNG gas agreements it has made with the UAE despite its cutting off relations with Doha, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said.

He said Iran has told Qatar it is ready to help with securing food supplies and will designate three of its ports to Qatar, but the offer has not yet been accepted.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman's comments came a day after a high-level UAE government official told AFP news agency that the unprecedented measures against Qatar aim to pressure the country into making drastic policy changes.

READ MORE: Moves against Qatar 'violate human rights'

Accusing the Qatari government of being in "denial", Anwar Gargash, UAE state minister for foreign affairs, said: "This is not about regime change - this is about change of policy, change of approach."

The four Arab countries have suspended all flights to and from Doha and closed off sea and air links to Qatar.

Saudi Arabia has also closed off Qatar's only land border.

Analysts say the crisis is in part an extension of a pre-existing dispute which saw Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain temporarily recall their ambassadors from Doha in 2014 over Qatari support for the Muslim Brotherhood.

Guess this is the end of Al Jazeera? In a way good news.

Surprise, surprise!
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/qatar-fm-ready-surrender-170608142453812.html

 

[LittleFish]

What a cursed land ME is It's showtime for the Great and Almighty Sultan Erdogan to umbrella his affiliate Qatari House I just wish with the protection of Sultan the price of oil&gas will remain stable, or it will take me extra money for my coming trip

 

[Kurlang]

If this goes any further either the House of Saud or the Qatari ruler will eventually fall. The proximity of these two neighbours makes it impossible to ignore the effects. Turkey is going to stand by Qatar and of course Iran will indirectly assist Qatar. So, it's not going to be a stroll through the park for the House of Saud. The US will try to calm things down as her largest military base in the region is in Qatar. It's an opportunity for Erdogan to settle a score with those who orchestrated the coup.

Qatar would have bowed if she was alone but she is not. So, I think it's a day dream for the UAE and Saudi despots. The possibility is always there but I don't think this is how things will turn out.

@T-Rex Please stop using this "Bold-ing" effect as I have difficulty in reading your posts.

 

[Mangus Ortus Novem]

With one grand move the entire ME has been sharply divided. Whoever thought it is a true strategist.

Only question is of timing. Obviously the news of terror financing has been around since long. Why the sudden rush now? Also, this charge against Qatar cuts both ways!

Eygpte wants UN to act. KSA is not budging from its goal of total submission of Doha to KSA.

Turkey has jumped in the middle of the mess.

Iran got attacked at its seat of power in Tehran in broad day light.

Now the Kurds are joinning KSA... which is essentially an implied or even direct threat to Turkish state.

Even if this 'crisis' is solved in a couple of weeks.. the great rift that is created by this event is not going to be fixed anytime soon.

Pak must stay away from this...only option for Pak is to support all fighting parties.

However, Pak must never let Turkish Territorial Integrity to come in question at all costs. This is Imperative!

Pak must learn to show respect to those in GCC who show equal respect back and take a studied distance from those who don't.

CPEC, its completion and protection has to be the only Focus of Pak.

 

[Banglar Bir]

Why the campaign against Qatar is doomed
David Hearst, June 9, 2017

Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attends the 25th Arab Summit in Kuwait City, 25 March, 2014 (Reuters)

It has been apparent for some time that the war against the Islamic State (IS) group and its forebear al-Qaeda is by no means the only show in town in the Middle East. In fact, for most of the time, the war on terror has been a sideshow.

The attempt to bring Qatar to heel by closing its borders and effectively laying siege to it has shed light on the real forces competing for dominance of the region in the post-Western world in which we live today.

Three regional blocks are vying for control.

The first is led by Iran – its state actors including Iraq and Syria, and non-state ones the Shia militias in Iraq, Hezbollah and the Houthis.

The second is the ancien regimes of absolute Gulf monarchs: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, while also including Jordan and Egypt.

The third block is led by Turkey, Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood and the forces instrumental in the Arab Spring.

Shortly after Qatar’s land border with Saudi was closed at dawn on 5 June, the Pentagon lauded Qatar’s “enduring commitment to regional security”

In this three-way fight, America’s allies are just as destabilising to regional order as America’s foes, and the campaign launched against Qatar is a prime example of this.

Saudi Arabia has made a strategic miscalculation by attempting to impose its will on little Qatar. Because in so doing, it has upset a regional order on which it relied to confront Iran’s dominance in countries all around the kingdom.

Put another way, if the Iranian-backed civil war in Syria brought Saudi and Turkey together, the Qatari conflict has done the opposite. In fact, it could lead to the construction of a common cause among Iran, Turkey and forces of Sunni political Islam – as bizarre as this may seem.

The two powers would not fall into each other’s arms naturally, but they could come together amid the reckless and shortsighted policies of Saudi Arabia.

The Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif was in Ankara on Wednesday (Reuters)

Pentagon contradicts Trump’s tweets
The two game changers for Saudi Arabia’s campaign against Qatar are the Turkish parliament’s decision to fast track legislation allowing Turkish troops to be deployed at a base in Qatar, and the statement by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps accusing Saudi Arabia of responsibility for the attack on the Iranian parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in which 12 died.

This leaves Saudi Arabia isolated. It can bully smaller nations, but it cannot defend its own borders without substantial amounts of foreign military support.

Not content with muzzling their own media, they want to shut down all media which reveals the inconvenient truth about their despotic, venal, corrupt regimes, wherever it is in the world.

Whatever their commander-in-chief may tweet, the US military in the Gulf is trying very hard to avoid having to provide it. Which is possibly one reason why the White House and the Pentagon have been saying different things about Qatar this week.

Shortly after Qatar’s land border with Saudi was closed at dawn on 5 June, the Pentagon lauded Qatar’s “enduring commitment to regional security”.

It said pointedly about al Udeid airbase, which is the forward base of US Air Forces Central Command, that “all flights continue as planned”. About 10,000 US troops are based there.

Then came Trump’s tweets, which essentially claimed ownership of the extraordinary moves against Qatar by saying they were the fruits of the address he made in Riyadh before 50 Arab and Muslim leaders. And then came a second Pentagon statement, renewing praise of Qatar for hosting US forces.

The Pentagon was joined by Europe, or least the foreign minister of its most important state, Germany. Sigmar Gabriel said: “Apparently, Qatar is to be isolated more or less completely and hit existentially. Such a Trumpization of treatment is particularly dangerous in a region already plagued by crisis.”

Soon after the Turkish decision, Trump was on the phone to the Emir of Qatar offering mediation; 24 hours after his tweet, it seemed the message from his military had gotten through to him.

Miscalculations
Saudi Arabia and the Emirates have now bitten off more than they can chew.

Their first miscalculation was to buy the Trump narrative. When you purchase a Trump product, you buy a lot more with it. There are side effects, not least the sheer amount of resentment, hostility and resistance Trump himself has created at home.

This is not inconsiderable when you review who resents Trump – the CIA, Pentagon, State Department, senators of all colours, and the judges. This is not just America’s deep state, but if it were only them, they are enough to be going on with.

The much-in-the-news Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba, made the classic mistake of thinking that because he had former defence secretary Robert Gates eating out of his hand, the rest of the defence department would do the same. It plainly did not.

Russia’s US ambassador Sergey Kislyak, now dubbed Washington’s most dangerous diplomat, fell to earth over a similar act of hubris. All of these ambassadors confuse their success as lobbyists with foreign policy-making. The two are different.

Their second miscalculation was to assume that because Qatar was small, no bigger nation would come to its defence. Both Saudi and the UAE have significant investments in Turkey, one of which Abu Dhabi made after it had tried to unseat Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a coup. Both thought Turkey would be bought off.

The opposite happened. Erdogan realised that if Qatar were crushed, he would be the only man of that camp standing.

Their third miscalculation was to reveal their real beef with Qatar. It has nothing to do with funding terrorism or cosying up to Iran. In fact the Emiratis do a roaring trade with Iran, and they are part of the coalition accusing Qatar of siding with Tehran.

Their real demands, which were conveyed to the Emir of Kuwait – who is acting as an intermediary – are the closure of Al Jazeera, de-funding of Al Arabi al Jadid, Al Quds al Arabi, and the Arabic edition of Huffington Post, along with the expulsion of Palestinian public intellectual Azmi Bishara.

This is the media that reveals – in Arabic – the stories that these Arab dictators most want their citizens not to read. Not content with muzzling their own media, they want to shut down all media that reveals the inconvenient truth about their despotic, venal, corrupt regimes, wherever it is in the world.

Israel Joins the unhappy party
Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood only come in at number 7 of this demand wishlist. The inclusion of Hamas on this list is another miscalculation, because whatever the US may think about the Palestinian movement, it is popular in the Gulf.

This is where Israel joins the unhappy party. As the hacked emails of Otaiba reveal, the Emiratis and the government of Binyamin Netanyahu are thick as thieves.

The Israeli prime minister is quite right to think that he has the backing of the major Arab states in suppressing all progress to a truly independent Palestinian state. That is about the last thing Egypt, Jordan, the UAE or Saudi Arabia want. The kingdoms are so keen to normalise relations with Israel that a Saudi commentator was recently interviewed for the first time on Israel’s Channel 2.

The Egyptian-Palestinian poet Tamim al Barghouti provided a fitting commentary to this. He wrote on the Facebook page:

“On the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem, an Egyptian-Saudi-UAE-Bahraini-Israeli alliance forms and lays ground and aerial siege around an Arab country for no reason other than supporting the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance and the Arab revolutions over the past two decades, in particular the Egyptian revolution that brought down Israel’s ally and threatened the military authority of Camp David in Cairo. They are not punishing Doha over Syria, Libya, Yemen and the American base.

“They are punishing it for Al Jazeera’s testimony in the wars of Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza and for supporting the Palestinian resistance in 2009, 2012 and 2014 and the Lebanese resistance in 2000 and 2006. They are punishing it for the fall of Mubarak in 2011.

“A bankrupt and terrified military officer who suffers from Macbeth syndrome and who is washing his hands of old blood with a new one and an adolescent who is in a rush to become king and who is ambitious to surpass his cousin to the throne at whatever cost chose the fifth of June specifically in order to announce that their countries had just joined the Israeli strategic depth.”

The final miscalculation? Qatar is not Gaza. It’s got friends with big armies – a country with a population smaller than Houston has got a sovereign wealth fund worth $335bn. It is the largest producer of natural gas in the Middle East. It has a relationship with Exxon. The Saudis and Emiratis are not the only players in Washington. And even Gaza has survived its siege.

David Hearst is editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He was chief foreign leader writer of The Guardian, former Associate Foreign Editor, European Editor, Moscow Bureau Chief, European Correspondent, and Ireland Correspondent. He joined The Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education correspondent.
http://southasianmonitor.com/2017/06/09/campaign-qatar-doomed/