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No. 6251 - Former Qatari PM Hamed bin Jassim Al Thani: Al-Jazeera Has Been a Source of Trouble for Us; Qatar Established Relations with Israel to Get Close to America - 10/25/17

Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, former Qatari prime minister and foreign minister, gave a wide-ranging interview to Qatar TV, in which he said that he could understand the anger against Al-Jazeera TV in some countries and that the network had been "a source of trouble for us." On the establishment of Qatari relations with Israel, he said: "In order to get close to America, it was important to have relations with Israel, because Israel could open many doors for you in America." Bin Jassim warned the ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1346 - Conflicting Reports In Gulf Media About Phone Conversation Between Saudi Crown Prince And Qatari Emir Reflect The Roots Of The Gulf Dispute - 09/14/17

Introduction On September 9, 2017, Saudi Arabia announced that it was cutting off all dialogue with Qatar on the resolution of the intra-Gulf dispute. 1 The announcement came following a phone call between Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman discussing a resolution to the Gulf crisis , and less than 24 hours after a joint press conference by U.S. President Donald Trump and the Kuwaiti emir at which Trump expressed his willingness to personally help ...

B. Shanee

Special Dispatch No. 7044 - Al-Jazeera Senior Political Analyst Suggests President Trump Might Have Been 'Bribed' To Be Pro-Saudi, Anti-Qatar - 08/07/17

During the height of the crisis between Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt, vs Qatar, Al-Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara suggested in a June 26, 2017 op-ed on Aljazeera.com, titled "What Is The Qatar-GCC Showdown Really About?" that U.S. President Trump had been "bribed" or "duped" by the Saudis in order to adopt a pro-Saudi and anti-Qatar stance in the crisis, or was "complicit" with them. Trump's recent statements, he said, "have puzzled U.S. friends and foes alike," since ...

Special Dispatch No. 7007 - Criticism In Gulf, Egyptian Press: Trump Administration Is Pro-Qatar - 07/13/17

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain, the four countries that have been blockading and making demands of Qatar for the past month because, they say, of its support for terrorism and for Iran, 1 are also waging a diplomatic campaign aimed at persuading the world, primarily its purported allies in the West and first and foremost the U.S., that they are in the right in the current Gulf crisis. These diplomatic efforts, however, do not seem to be succeeding. Since the beginning of the crisis, ...

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 129 - Two-Faced Qatar Squirms – But They Shouldn't Be the Only Ones - 06/02/17

Watching pan-Arab media as I do, and as I have on a regular basis for decades, two items caught my eye this week. One was the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affair's condemnation of the ISIS attack on Coptic Christians in Al-Minya. 1 The second was seeing Al-Jazeera TV feature prominently official Qatari statements on the close counter-terrorism cooperation between that country and the United States. The two, rather ordinary, statements were jarring because Qatar regularly supports or coddles a ...

Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1287 - As Aleppo's Fall To Assad Regime Seems Assured, Regime Is Certain Of Its Victory And Future International Influence – And Opposition Recognizes Defeat - 12/12/16

Introduction After six years of war in Syria, the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad seems to have the upper hand over the rebel forces. Massive assistance from allies Iran, Russia, and Hizbullah has enabled it to almost completely crush its opponents and push them out of stronghold after stronghold. This is done by besieging rebel-held areas and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to their residents, while carrying out massive airstrikes, including with barrel-bombs, and ...

N. Mozes

Special Dispatch No. 6366 - President Assad: Negotiating With Present Opposition Delegation Is Pointless; The Way To End The Crisis Is Through Military Victory - 03/30/16

On March 25, 2016, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar , which is close to the Syrian regime and to Hizbullah, posted statements made by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad at the Arab and Islamic Assembly for Supporting the Resistance Option, held in Damascus on March 19-20. According to the daily, Assad rejected any possibility of reaching a political solution with the opposition delegation of the Syrian High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to the Geneva talks, saying that the real way to resolve the ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1202 - Egypt-Saudi Arabia Relations: Substantial Rifts Despite Shared Basic Interests - 11/11/15

Introduction Since the ouster of Muhammad Mursi in July 2013, Saudi-Egyptian relations have been close and marked by common interests. Saudi Arabia backed the Egyptian military's ousting of Mursi and supported its claim that the ouster expressed the will of the people, in the face of international claims that it was a military coup. Alongside political support for the new regime, Saudi Arabia also donated billions of dollars to restore Egypt's economy. However, despite the friendly relations, ...

Y. Graff

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1174 - Israel-Hamas Talks: Hudna In Exchange For Lifting Of Blockade - 07/13/15

... filled by European representatives and representatives of Qatar and Turkey, who have begun mediating between Israel and Hamas. Hamas senior official Khalil Al-Haya wrote: "Efforts ... are being made in the international arena to prevent an escalation between Israel ...

C. Jacob

Special Dispatch No. 5937 - Arab Media Reactions To Paris Terror Attacks – Part I: Arab Papers, Columnists Claim West Is Now Paying The Price For Supporting Terror - 01/19/15

The recent terror wave in Paris, which started with the January 7, 2015 massacre at the premises of the French weekly Charlie Hebdo in revenge for cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that the weekly published a few years ago, and continued with the January 8, 2015 murder of a French policewoman and the January 9, 2015 attack on the kosher supermarket Hyper Cacher, sparked numerous and varied reactions in the Arab and Muslim world. 1 These responses found expression on the social networks, 2 in ...

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