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August 24, 2022

Qatar’s Two-Faced Foreign Policy Makes the Middle East More Dangerous

One thing in English, another in Arabic.

Qatar is home to an airbase that is essential to American operations in the Middle East and, as of this year, it is an officially designated U.S. non-NATO ally. But Doha is also a key financial backer of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, maintains ties with the Taliban, and owns and operates Al Jazeera, a major source of anti-Semitic and anti-American propaganda in the Middle East. President Biden recently thanked the peninsular emirate for its role in negotiating the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. But this role conceals something more sinister, as Hussain Abdul-Hussain explains:

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