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Yigal Carmon

It seems clear that the “terrorist organization” Imamoglu is accused of helping is simply the formidable opposition party in Turkey that is closing in on ending Erdogan’s reign.
The Americans played Israel, and are continuing to do so by preventing an Israeli reaction to Iran’s unprecedented attack.
There is hardly a criminal offense against America that Qatar does not get away with.
Qatar is providing a service to Russia, China and Iran: ongoing instability directed against America. Will the administration ever realize this?
The idea of lifting sanctions on Iran and then expecting it to curtail its missile program might sound good, but has little to do with reality.
Trump’s handling of the Soleimani affair proves that he gets it: Confrontation with evil is unavoidable, the only choice is between standing up or being humiliatingly defeated.
The powers of evil cannot be tamed by American self-abnegation. This lesson should have been assimilated in the previous century.
It’s happening before our very eyes: Just as Qatar has bought the entire world, it is likewise purchasing the goodwill of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crows that he has forged ties with regional powers with whom Israel did not maintain ties previously, but empowering Qatar only estranges these countries, which unlike Israel have seen through Qatar’s two-facedness and unlike Netanyahu treat Qatar as an enemy.
Whether out of ignorance or venality, America’s clinging to Qatar despite its anti-U.S. actions dooms the Trump administration’s Middle East policy, just as the Obama administration’s Iran fixation doomed its Middle East policy.
Now that Saudi Arabia has acknowledged its responsibility for the Khashoggi murder, it is time to clarify Turkey’s role and responsibility in the affair, from the perspective of the battle between Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Saudi Arabia’s Muhammad Bin Salman for the leadership of the Sunni world.
But with Russia’s equipping Syria with S-300s, and its inevitable operation by Russian officers against Israeli aircraft, the Russians risk a major military and technological debacle.