{"id":8353,"date":"2013-08-29T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=8353"},"modified":"2013-08-29T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:37:49","slug":"the-qatar-problem-by-jeremy-shapiro-the-middle-east-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/29\/the-qatar-problem-by-jeremy-shapiro-the-middle-east-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Qatar Problem – By Jeremy Shapiro | The Middle East Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Shapiro at Foreign Policy discusses the role played by Qatar in the Middle East, their expansion of Al-Jazeera into the US, and their support for the Muslim Brotherhood:<\/p>\n

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On the face of it, Qatar has been one of the United States’s most valuable allies in the Middle East over the last decade. Qatar hosts a large U.S. Air Force base in the Persian Gulf and has often provided political and financial support for U.S. initiatives in the Middle East. Indeed, Washington has often encouraged Qatari activism to legitimize U.S. diplomacy, including its political support at the Arab League of a potential U.S. strike against Syria.<\/p>\n

But Qatar’s role in the United States’s Middle East policy is far more problematic than is commonly recognized. The tiny yet ambitious Gulf emirate has sought to use its immense hydrocarbon wealth to finance and arm civil wars in Libya and Syria, to support Hamas in Gaza, and to mediate disputes in Sudan and Lebanon. Its interest sometimes align with the United States’s — but too often, they do not. The launch of Al-Jazeera America, the news network its government owns, should redirect attention to Doha’s goals and means……<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more at The Qatar Problem – By Jeremy Shapiro | The Middle East Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Shapiro at Foreign Policy discusses the role played by Qatar in the Middle East, their expansion of Al-Jazeera into the US, and their support for the Muslim Brotherhood: On the face of it, Qatar has been one of the United States’s most valuable allies in the Middle East over the last decade. Qatar hosts … <\/p>\n

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