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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Credit: Flickr.

Omar accused of working for foreign government, passing information to Iran

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was accused of working for a foreign government and passing sensitive information to Iran last month by a Canadian businessman as part of a sworn deposition. Kuwaiti-born Alan Bender said in...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sign a mutual defense agreement in 2014. Source: aljazeera.net.

Turkey-Qatar relations: From bilateral ties to strategic partnership

This month, a new Turkish military base is to be inaugurated in Qatar by the leaders of the two countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. This...
A luxury Boeing 747 given to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a gift by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. (MEMRI)

Emir of Qatar gives Turkish president $400 million luxury jet

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Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani gave Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a Boeing 747 worth some $400 million, Turkey’s Show TV reported last month. According to the Sept. 14 report, the...
View of the Gaza Strip as seen from the Israeli side of the border on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

With no clear alternatives, Israel maintains status quo in Gaza

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Despite ongoing attacks emanating from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Israel recently re-extended the Gaza fishing zone to 10 nautical miles and allowed Qatar to deliver $20 million in cash for humanitarian assistance to Gaza’s 2 million residents. Israel’s policy...
A view of the Gaza Strip. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Report: Qatar plans not renew funds for Gaza’s electricity

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The Qatari envoy to the Gaza Strip, Mohammad al-Amadi, told Hamas officials his country would discontinue its almost $10 million in funding towards the territory’s electricity amid a lack of improvement with infrastructure projects,...
Qatar Armed Forces members convoy to a simulated terrorist cell to conduct a joint counter-terrorism exercise with U.S. military members and other partner nations in Zikrit, Qatar, on April 28, 2013. Credit: Staff Sgt. Kenneth Holston via Wikimedia Commons.

Coming to grips with the truth about Qatar

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This week the national press has continued to keep the heat on Saudi Arabia as more details about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have made it clear that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
President Donald J. Trump and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey at the United Nations

Trump is unable to pressure Erdoğan economically because his bogus ally Qatar will save...

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There have been inexplicable phenomena in the Middle East for some years now. Any attempt to explain them logically comes up against a dead end, and gives way to conspiracy theories. How can one...
Futuwwa Graduation ceremony at Dar Al-Arqam school (source: facebook.com/ArqamSchools, June 4, 2014) (MEMRI)

For years, Qatar funded Hamas schools in Gaza, where children receive weapons’ training

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On Sept. 15, the Saudi London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that, in May, Qatar had stopped funding a group of Gaza schools operated by Hamas’s Dar Al-Arqam association. According to the report, the Qatari institution that had...
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Qatar is Leaving OPEC – Who Wins?

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Cyril Widdershoven wrote a column describe why 2019 is likely to be a tumultuous year for OPEC. It is worth reading in its entirety, but the central theme of the article is that Iran has been...
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with the Emir of Qatar during their bilateral meeting on May 21, 2017, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Official White House Photo/Shealah Craighead.

Qatar book fair continues to sell anti-Semitic books, despite ADL pressure

The Anti-Defamation League has asked the U.S. ‎Embassy in Qatar to pressure Doha to remove anti-‎Semitic titles from its government-sponsored ‎book fair, which it said “has a record of promoting blatantly anti-Semitic content.” The 29th...