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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 ...

No. 4485 - Palestinian and Egyptian Commentators Argue about Hamas Achievements in the Gaza War - 08/28/14

In a recent TV debate, Dr. Muhammad Al-Shtayyeh, a Fatah leader in Cairo, and Ashraf Abu Al-Houl, deputy editor-in-chief of "Al-Ahram", argued over the achievements that Hamas had claimed following the Gaza war. The debate was broadcast on the Egyptian ON TV channel on August 28, 2014. Following are excerpts from a debate on Hamas achievements in the Gaza war, which aired on ON TV on August 28, 2014: Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh Fatah leader in Cairo: The victory can be attributed to the Palestinian ...

Special Dispatch No. 5825 - Hassan Nasrallah In Interview With 'Al-Akhbar': Israel An Illegitimate Entity, Must Be Eliminated - 08/24/14

On August 14-15, 2014, the Lebanese Al-Akhbar daily, which is close to Hizbullah, published a comprehensive interview with the organization's secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah to mark the eighth anniversary of the 2006 Lebanon War. In the interview, which was conducted by several interviewers and published in several parts, Nasrallah presented Hizbullah's views on Israel, and described the close cooperation between his organization and Syria during the Lebanon War. He also addressed the issue ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1111 - Egypt's Position On Gaza Conflict Part II: Softening Its Tone Towards Hamas, Harsher Words Towards Israel - 08/12/14

Until recently, the Egyptian media was on the warpath against Hamas, as expressed by its depiction of the movement as a terror organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that harms Palestinian interests and also harms Egypt and its security and economic interests. 1 Hamas was presented as responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza, and as trading in their blood; its attack on Israel was described as actually directed against Egypt, with the aim of ensuring the ...

L. Lavi

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