Further in the report:
Al Jubeir also urged Qatar, an estranged member of the GCC to stop supporting extremists and terrorists and return to the fold. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and Egypt severed trade and diplomatic ties with Qatar in 2017, charging Doha of siding with terror groups that have been destabilizing the region.
I did not know this about Qatar and the of the [Persian] Gulf States
I hope this means that the GCC will handle it owns security and not rely on the US...
Emergency and they’ll wait until May 30th?
Qatar supports the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that works to overthrow Governments - supposedly to make them purely Islamic, but in practice, it is just to take power for themselves.
Hamas in the Gaza Strip is a Muslim Brotherhood organization, as is CAIR in the United States.
Qatar owns and operates the al Jazeera broadcasting network. In Arabic, they give a big platform to Muslim Brotherhood clerics (like Sheik Qaradawi) to preach their version of Islam.
Yes, it’s been a huge regional geopolitical conflict for a while. It even affected airspace for commercial traffic.
Aren’t you glad we saved Qatar from Saddam Hussein?