UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain Cut Diplomatic Ties With Qatar…

The Conservative Tree House ^ | June 5, 2017 | Sundance

[HarleyLady27]

There’s a history needed for context here. But first, here’s the latest developments in order of their occurrence.

♦ 6:00am Bahrain’s Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a statement early Monday saying it would withdraw its diplomatic mission from the Qatari capital of Doha within 48 hours and that all Qatari diplomats should leave Bahrain within the same period.

The ministry’s statement said Qatari citizens needed to leave Bahrain within two weeks and that air and sea traffic between the two countries would be halted. It wasn’t immediately clear how that would affect Qatar Airways, one of the region’s major long-haul carriers.

Bahrain blamed Qatar’s “media incitement, support for armed terrorist activities and funding linked to Iranian groups to carry out sabotage and spreading chaos in Bahrain” for its decision.

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Here’s some historic background for possible context on the latest developments: ◾Qatar was the intermediary used by President Obama for covert arms and monetary transfers by the Obama CIA and Obama/Clinton State Department respectively. ◾Qatar was also the chosen home for detainees when President Obama released the GITMO terrorists. ◾Most importantly however, is the relationship between Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood. When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi named the Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization, their leadership fled to safe harbor in Qatar.

[magna carta]

Houston ISD is still taking checks from Qatar Foundation...teaching pre-K to 5th graders to speak Arabic...going on nationwide

[Garth Tater]

This will have a large effect on the war in Syria. Qatar has been trying to push their pipeline through Syria to sell their natural gas to Europe. Their natural gas comes from one of the world's largest fields off-shore of Qatar. Qatar owns one half of the field. Iran owns the other half. Now with Qatar splitting from Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States and joining up diplomatically with Iran Qatar will be unlikely to continue the fight in Syria since Iran is aligned there with the Syrian government that Qatar has, until now, been trying to overthrow. Continuing the fight in Syria now would leave Qatar with ZERO friends in the Gulf.

I have no idea what has caused this split among the Gulf States but I know it's a big thing geopolitically. It might be that Qatar has decided to join with Iran in selling its gas to China (instead of trying to get it to Europe) and if so this will have a huge impact on the petro-dollar. World wars are fought over things like this.

[trebb]

More winning from “an inept President”. If only Obama had been so inept....