“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)
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National Review—Qatar’s Dirty Hands:
Its support for Islamist movements is unrivaled in the Middle East.
As the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa was convening to hear testimony on the U.S.–Qatar relationship, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the gas-rich emirate’s foreign minister were smiling for a photo op before a meeting at the State Department. At the same time that Tillerson and Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani were happily shaking hands, Congress was assessing Qatar’s duplicitous role in the Middle East.
If that juxtaposition wasn’t enough, that same day, Qatar hired Avenue Strategies Global, an influence firm founded by President Trump’s former campaign manager, Cory Lewandowski. (Lewandowski resigned from the firm in May, six months after he founded the company.) The New York Post reported last week that, according to Department of Justice documents, the firm is set to “provide research, government relations and strategic consulting services” for $150,000 a month that “may include communications with members of Congress and Congressional staff, executive branch officials, the media and other individuals.”
Qatar certainly has an interest in compelling President Trump to change his tune on the Saudi Arabia–United Arab Emirates–Qatar crisis and pull his support away from the bloc led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). (In June, Trump tweeted: “During my recent trip to the Middle East, I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar — look!”) If not, Qatar hopes it can convince those around him and in Congress to reconsider their positions.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Also, see
- Relations between Israel and Jordan have become ‘very dangerous’
- Trump warns of ‘dangerous low’ in Russia relations
- The Temple Mount crisis ended Trump’s Palestinian honeymoon. The Kushner tape made things worse
Things are heating up in the Middle East and in the rest of the world.
Something big is brewing.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
