Tag: Qatar
Omar accused of working for foreign government, passing information to Iran
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...
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...
Emir of Qatar gives Turkish president $400 million luxury jet
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...
With no clear alternatives, Israel maintains status quo in Gaza
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...
Report: Qatar plans not renew funds for Gaza’s electricity
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,...
Coming to grips with the truth about Qatar
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...
Trump is unable to pressure Erdoğan economically because his bogus ally Qatar will save...
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...
For years, Qatar funded Hamas schools in Gaza, where children receive weapons’ training
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...
Qatar is Leaving OPEC – Who Wins?
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...
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...