U.S. leader Donald Trump signed the yearly waiver he promised he wouldn’t sign but move the embassy from Tel Aviv to the undivided city of Jerusalem. Of course, when dealing with Saudis in a commercial deal of 380bn, something’s got to give.
Just recently in Saudi capital Riyadh, apprentice president Trump reiterated all global terror comes from Iran. Just more fake news from Bircher president Trump, at last the GOP revolt is completed.
○ US Administratons’ Failure to Distinquish Strands of Islam
So often the Obama administration [Pentagon, CIA et al.] blamed Russia [Putin and Lavrov] for failures of Geneva talks. It has been clear to me the different strands of Islam and the political context of the region were to blame as there was no united front of rebel leaders in opposition to Syrian president Bashar Assad. Their irreconcilable positions were the cause of the ultimate failure for a diplomatic solution and the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the exile of millions of refugees in the region and into Europe.
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Today the differences between the Muslim Brotherhood [Qatar, Turkey, Hamas and Egypt under Morsi] escalated to a full blown diplomatic war … Remember Hillary Clinton fell in love with the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, Turkey’s Erdogan and Egypt’s Morsi. HRC was a celebrated quest on Qatar’s Al Jazeera!
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So there is a new sheriff in town and turned the tables on Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudi Kingdom. Pivoting to the evildoers of the House of Saud, its unlimited wealth the princes offered during his recent visit!
Saudi, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt cut ties with Qatar over terrorism | Gulf News
Latest developments: What we know so far …
- The UAE has given Qatar’s diplomatic mission in Abu Dhabi 48 hours to leave the country after what it said where “Doha’s several policies which destabilizes the security and stability of the region and manipulates commitments”.
- The UAE informed Qatari citizens they had 14 days to leave the UAE. Citizens from Qatar have also been banned from passing through the UAE.
- Emiratis are now banned from visiting or even passing by Qatar at all means.
- The Saudi state news agency SPA said Riyadh had closed its borders, severing land, sea and air contact with Qatar and largely isolating it. It cited officials as saying it was to “protect its national security from the dangers of terrorism and extremism”.
- Etihad Airways said it would suspend all flights to and from Doha from 02:45 local time on Tuesday
- Bahrain’s state news agency said the country was cutting ties with Qatar because Doha was “shaking the security and stability of Bahrain and meddling in its affairs”.
- Saudi Arabia said Qatari troops would be pulled from the ongoing Saudi-led coalition that is fighting Al Houthi militia in Yemen.
○ Saudi-Egypt axis cuts ties to isolate Qatar | Hürriyet Daily News |
○ Social media reacts to Gulf diplomatic rift | Al Jazeera |
Gulf plunged into diplomatic crisis as countries cut ties with Qatar | The Guardian |
The Gulf has been hit by its biggest diplomatic crisis in years after Arab nations including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region with its support for Islamist groups.
The countries said they would halt all land, air and sea traffic with Qatar, eject its diplomats and order Qatari citizens to leave the Gulf states within 14 days. Shoppers in the Qatari capital, Doha, meanwhile packed supermarkets amid fears the country, which relies on imports from its neighbours, would face food shortages after Saudi Arabia closed its sole land border.
Social media reports from Doha showed supermarket shelves empty as nervous consumers began to worry that stocks of food and water would run out. As much as 40% of Qatar’s food comes over the Saudi border.
The small but very wealthy nation, the richest in the world per capita, was also expelled from a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen.
The coordinated move dramatically escalates a dispute over Qatar’s support of Islamist movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and its perceived tolerance of Saudi Arabia’s arch-rival, Iran. The dispute is the worst to hit the Gulf since the formation of the Gulf Co-operation Council in 1981.
Qatar’s foreign affairs ministry said the measures were unjustified and based on false claims and assumptions. As the Qatari stock market tumbled and oil prices rose, it accused its fellow Gulf states of violating its sovereignty.
“The state of Qatar has been subjected to a campaign of lies that have reached the point of complete fabrication,” a statement said. “It reveals a hidden plan to undermine the state of Qatar.”
Saudi Arabia said it took the decision to cut diplomatic ties owing to Qatar’s “embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilising the region”, including the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, Islamic State and groups supported by Iran in Saudi Arabia’s restive eastern province of Qatif.
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