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Tag Archives: Qatar
Congress goes after ‘frenemies’ Turkey, Qatar
AL MONITOR by Julian Pecquet September 9, 2014 Congress delivered its staunchest warning to date on Sept. 9 that Turkey and Qatar could face financial and other penalties if they continue to support Hamas and other US-designated terrorist organizations. Frustration that … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Hamas, House Foreign Affairs, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Qatar, Ted Poe, Turkey, US Congress
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Hamas-Backing Qatar, Also Funding Brookings Institute
ALGEMEINER by Dave Bender September 7, 2014 Questions are emerging over possible conflicts-of-interest after The New York Times highlighted Qatari funding for U.S. think tanks, including the Brookings Institute, employer of former U.S. envoy Martin Indyk, who was directly involved … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Brookings Institute, Martin Indyk, New York Times, Qatar, Qatari
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Qatar’s Rise and America’s Tortured Middle East Policy
THE TOWER by Jonathan Spyer August 2014 How did it happen that Washington has such close relations with a country actively and massively sponsoring terror, even after 9/11? One of the most notable aspects of the current conflict between Israel … Continue reading
Understanding the Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance
JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick August 21, 2014 Hamas’s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Caroline Glick, Egypt, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
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US-Qatar Alliance: Under Strain?
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES by David Andrew Weinberg August 4, 2014 Qatar, a tiny Persian Gulf petropower, is known to exert outsized influence in the Middle East. But between the war in Syria and the most recent conflict in … Continue reading
How the Taliban got their hands on modern US missiles
NEW YORK POST By Kenneth R. Timmerman June 8, 2014 The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons. Miliary records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar … Continue reading
Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference focuses on our “frenemies”
Last week I was in DC for the two-day Foundation for Defense of Democracy conference. For such a young organization their range of accomplishments is very impressive. FDD analysts are tops in their fields and testify regularly before Congress, are consulted by the White … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged FDD, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudia Arabia, Turkey
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