Qatar

Government preparations, mounting criticism and the long, hot summer + this day in history w/the Rosenberg's execution and our song of the day by Arcade Fire on your Morning Monarchy for June 19, 2017.

Palestine Information Center – June 18, 2017 GAZA – Head of the Palestine Scholars Association, Dr Marwan Abu Ras, lauded Qatar’s pro-Palestine position and stressed Palestinians’ support for the government and people of Qatar. “We are here today, in the blockaded Gaza Strip, to tell the world that our sole enemies are the Israeli colonizers […]

As the world watches the rapid transformation of Qatar from wealthy trusted ally in the West’s War on Terror and host to US CENTCOM, the most important US overseas military installation, to having President Trump declare Qatar “… historically being a funder of terrorism at a very high level”, the bigger question is whether Saudi Arabia is next.

American Herald Tribune | June 15, 2017 The accusation of financing terrorism levelled by some [Persian] Gulf countries against Qatar has “no solid base” , he said in an interview with the Charlie Rose show on PBS. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim demanded the countries that cut off relations with Qatar should provide evidence of their […]

(MEE) — An Iranian fisherman was shot and killed on Saturday by the Saudi coastguard, which accused him of entering Saudi waters, Iran’s interior ministry said, fuelling tensions between the regional rivals.

By Nasim Ahmed | MEMO | June 16, 2017 Israeli officials must have been tripping over each other in their rush to endorse the Saudi-led blockade on Qatar. “The Sunni Arab countries, apart from Qatar, are largely in the same boat with us since we all see a nuclear Iran as the number one threat […]

Was the lone-wolf terrorist attack by an anti-Trump gunman an isolated event or part of a wider problem?
The Duran’s Adam Garrie sits down with Nedka Babliku on Division Bell Media to discuss the wider implications along with other recent events from the wider world.

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Unlike Iran which has the mightiest military in the wider Middle East, arguably even more disciplined than that of Turkey, the military might of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, for all the money they lavish on arms, is broadly incompetent and incapable. The average citizens of the small State of Qatar let alone the larger Saudi Kingdom are simply not equipped for serious, let alone long term military combat.
The United States just completed a sale of military hardware, including fighter jets to the pseudo-isolated Qatari state in a deal worth $12 billion.

  In a paradoxical development in the current Saudi-Qatari dispute, Qatar and the United States Wednesday signed a deal to buy F-15 fighter jets for $12 billion while two US warships arrived in Qatar for joint exercise. Tellingly, the $12 billion deal was signed despite Qatar being criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump for supporting “terrorism.” The Bloomberg News quoted[Read More...]

Article “intéressant” vu le contexte qui a suivi… Avec un bel exemple de propagande pro gouvernementale.