The Qatar ‘crisis’ is about taming the one Gulf nation which has the potential to outshine the Saudi kingdom and dictate the outcome of the Syria war
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The Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity …
What Britain so sorely lacks is a thorough reappraisal of its entire relationship with the Middle East
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So after inventing “fake news”, America’s crazed President on Sunday gave the world’s Muslims a fake speech
The Saudis will be appalled that a (comparatively) reasonable Iranian has won a (comparatively) free election that almost none of the 50 dictators gathering to meet Trump in Riyadh would ever dare to hold
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