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Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid also inaugurated the Jewish state’s consulate in Dubai.
A delay in receiving money would lead to a security escalation, said Yahya Sinwar during a meeting with the U.N.’s envoy to the Middle East.
“Even if the rationales underpinning Qatar’s foreign policies are pragmatic and geostrategic in nature, generations of teaching such extreme sentiments have had some impact, somewhere, on the decision-making chain,” says David Roberts of King’s College London.
The Gulf state has long supplied Hamas with money and certain goods.
Whether the Biden administration can accomplish its goal of helping rebuild Gaza after the latest conflict while bypassing Hamas is highly unlikely, according to experts on the region.
The two contracts in the works, with Doha and Europe, aim to solve Gaza’s energy-supply crisis and save the Palestinian Authority hundreds of millions of dollars, says Qatari envoy Mohammed al-Emadi.
Foreign-policy professionals seemed to view the breakthrough, which was brokered by the United States and Kuwait, with a natural skepticism, as the country has long been a regional maverick.
Unverified claims by Abd Al-Aziz Khazraj Al-Ansarai are viewed more than 300,000 times on YouTube, and picked up on Israeli television and other regional news outlets.
The aim is apparently to form a united front against the Iranian threat.
“My advice on negotiating with Iran is to recognize that the United States has the upper hand. Recognize that the regime in Tehran is facing serious pressures,” the U.S. Special Representative for Iran tells JNS, in large part due to the “maximum pressure” campaign the Trump administration has applied for the last few years.
He told the 2020 Virtual Global Security Forum that the move by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations with Israel were “their own sovereign decisions.”
“The Gulf states are not considered ‘kosher’ for leading the Sunnis,” according to Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, an expert on Turkey at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University.
