The Washington Post said it obtained unclassified US military files showing that six Arab nations — Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start..., the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, and Jordan — have been quietly expanding military cooperation with Israel, even as they publicly accused it of committing genocide in Gazoo"You can condemn Israel. You can call it a genocide. But the fact that you are building trade relations, the fact that you are sending food and supplies to Israel, while Paleostinians in Gaza are starving, and this includes Arab countries, of the Gulf countries, it includes Jordan, it includes Egypt, you are enabling the continuation of that genocide. So condemning it is meaningless," Riham Barghouti, a pro-Paleostine activist in New York, told Rudaw.
| The Barghoutis make trouble everywhere, it seems. |
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
— a shared regional threat.
Mohammed A. Salih from Foreign Policy Research Institute said he was not surprised by the report.
"The details in the report about cooperation between some of the Arab States and Israel were not really that surprising, given the major concerns and worries that some of these Arab states have had over the past couple of decades about the expansion of Iranian influence and role in the region," he said.