{"id":30951,"date":"2017-06-05T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30951"},"modified":"2017-06-05T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:21:24","slug":"changing-alliances-in-the-middle-east-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30951","title":{"rendered":"Changing Alliances In The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> is reporting today that Saudi Arabia<\/a>, the United Arab Emirates<\/a>, Egypt<\/a> and Bahrain have announced that they will cut air, sea and land links with Qatar<\/a>, which hosts a forward base for the U.S. military\u2019s Central Command and is home to the widely watched Al Jazeera network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Some other countries later joined the four-nation bloc in cutting ties with Qatar, which is also the venue for the 2022 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The feud \u2014 the most serious in decades among some the region\u2019s most key Western allies \u2014 has been simmering for years as Qatar increasingly flexed its political muscle across the region, including backing the Muslim Brotherhood<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Qatar\u2019s outreach often raised conflict with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of whom have sought to exert their own influence across the Arab world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CBN News<\/a> reported today:<\/p>\n

“[Qatar] embraces multiple terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at disturbing stability in the region, including the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS and al Qaeda, and promotes the message and schemes of these groups through their media constantly,” Saudi’s state news agency SPA wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…For years, Doha has been a strong backer of Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood ruling the Gaza Strip<\/a>, and the Islamic Republic of Iran<\/a>, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928 in Ismailia, Egypt, is often referred to as the “father” of today’s Islamic terror movements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2014, after a turbulent year under long-time Muslim Brotherhood devotee Mohammed Morsi<\/a>, Egyptians overwhelmingly elected former military chief Fattah Abdel el-Sisi as president.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slowly, el-Sisi began to address Egypt’s dire economic straits while simultaneously routing Islamic terror cells embedded in the Sinai Peninsula, which had flourished during Morsi’s short-lived term in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Egypt, the Arab’s world’s largest country, is 80 percent Muslim, but the population rejected the Morsi administration’s efforts to impose stricter Islamic lifestyle on the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a certain amount of irony here. Evidently, Qatar has backed the wrong group of terrorists. Saudi Arabia is the home of Wahhabism, a militant form of Islam that gave us the men who attacked America<\/a> on 9\/11. However, our alliance with Saudi Arabia is based on the fact that they are willing to fight ISIS and that they have supported the trading of oil in American dollars. The Saudis are also very actively working behind the scenes to prevent America from becoming energy independent and ruining the monopoly that OPEC has held for so long. If you look at the funding of some of the environmental groups that have opposed drilling in various places and various pipelines, you will find Saudi money.<\/p>\n

At any rate, President Trump has had a major impact on relationships in the Middle East. It will be interesting to see in the future is these new alliances work to curtail the funding and activities of terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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