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22Feb

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Qatar, ZIO-NAZI

Zionist youth handball teams in Qatar spark social media outcry

NOVANEWS Opening ceremony will not feature Nazi flag, but there's no question of Jerusalem not participating among more than 20 nations who sent teams to Doha Zionist national youth handball team (blue) competes in the 2016 European championships. The presence of Zionist teams at a youth handball tournament in Doha that started Thursday has sparked calls on social media for Qataris to withdraw their children from the competition. Nazi regime sent a boys’ team and a girls’ team to the Handball World School Championship, a biannual international tournament for students aged 15 to 18, played since the early 1970s. It is not the first time Zionist athletes have competed in Qatar, but their participation has brought renewed scrutiny to Doha’s foreign policy eight months into a diplomati...

21Feb

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Media, Middle East, Qatar, ZIO-NAZI

Zio-Wahhabi Al Jazeera under fire for hosting Nazi spokesperson

NOVANEWS Arab critics accuse Qatari-owned station of normalization with the Nazi regime, providing a platform for false Nazi narrative. Nazi Spokesman in Arabic, Avichay Adraee Zio-Wahhabi Al Jazeera Arabic TV is once again facing sharp criticism from Palestinians in particular, and Arabs in general, for interviewing Nazi official. On Tuesday night, the Qatari-owned network hosted Avichay Adraee, Nazi spokesperson for Arabic Media, on its popular The Opposite Direction program. The TV show is hosted by Faisal al-Qassem, a Syrian-born media personality famous for his provocative style and staunch criticism of Arab governments and heads of state. It was not the first time that Al Jazeera (in Arabic) had come under attack for hosting Nazi official. The station is one of a few Arab me...

12Dec

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Qatar, United Kingdom

Qatar finalizes $8bn weapons deal with UK

NOVANEWS Qatar has signed a major weapons deal to buy 24 Typhoon fighters from the United Kingdom amid a political stand-off with former Arab allies of the Persian Gulf region. Qatar’s Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah and his British counterpart, Gavin Williamson, signed the deal on Sunday in the Qatari capital of Doha. The agreement, worth USD 8 billion (6.8 billion euros), is the latest to come from Doha amid a diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt. The four cut their diplomatic ties with Qatar six months ago over allegations of its support for terrorism. They have even warned of further action if Doha does not mend its regional policies. Qatar has showed no sign that it is ready to bow to the pressures while maintaining that it...

8Dec

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France, Qatar

France , Qatar sign deals worth around 12 billion euros: Macron

NOVANEWS French President Emmanuel Macron and Qatar’s ruling emir have signed contacts worth around 12 billion euros ($14.15 billion) during the French president’s visit to Doha. “In total, it amounts to nearly 12 billion euros which was signed today and which underlines the closeness of our relations,” Macron said at a press conference with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Thursday. Macron and Sheikh Tamim agreed on a deal for Qatar to purchase at least a dozen French-made Dassault Rafale fighter jets with the option of buying 36 more. The deal also includes purchase of 490 VBCI armored vehicles from French firm Nexter. Qatar would additionally buy 50 Airbus twin-engine A321s with the option of buying 30 more. The small Persian Gulf country also signed a transportatio...

31Aug

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Middle East, Qatar, UAE

Al Jazeera: Blair, US officials on UAE payroll

NOVANEWS The UAE has paid tens of millions of dollars to expand its regional and international influence by buying positions and the loyalty of key figures, an Al Jazeera documentary has said. Aired yesterday, “Men around Abu Dhabi” claimed the Emirates paid former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the international envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon and a number of leaders of the US Department of Defence in order to keep them on side. The channel said that UAE paid $35 million to Tony Blair when he was the envoy for the Middle East Quartet. He was also paid as a consultant, leaked email published by the Sunday Telegraph revealed. The UAE government paid about $53,000 per month to the Spanish diplomat Bernardino Leon. Last year, the UAE Diplomatic Academy, which is headed by the UAE’s Mini...

24Aug

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Middle East, Qatar, Saudi Arabia

Abrupt Middle East Geopolitical Turnabout: The Qatar, Saudi Arabia and GCC Crisis

NOVANEWS By: Mouin Rabbani Jadaliyya Featured image: Logo of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) It is tempting, and not entirely inaccurate, to dismiss the escalating crisis between Qatar and a number of its neighbors as a petulant princely playground spat. Extending this tempting logic, one could conclude that decisive victory by each of the protagonists would be the optimal outcome. Yet the dispute also reflects deeper dynamics in Arab and regional politics that are shaping the increasingly turbulent and violent realities of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia’s Gulf Cooperation Council The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which is the locus of the present crisis, was established in 1981 by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Its form...

6Aug

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Media, Middle East, Qatar, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi regime to expel Al Jazeera, block broadcasts & revoke journalists’ credentials

NOVANEWS Israel has announced plans to effectively expel the Al Jazeera network from the country, revoking journalists’ credentials, shutting the company’s bureau in Jerusalem and pulling its broadcasts from national cable and satellite television networks. Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara announced the measures Sunday at a news conference. Journalists and representatives from Al Jazeera were not permitted to attend. “We are going to set measures in order to illustrate our war on terrorism, on radical Islam and our solidarity with the sane Arab world,” Kara stated. While the proposal will not take immediate effect, Kara confirmed that both the Arabic and English versions of the news channel will be shuttered once the proposal is passed in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament). ...

12Jul

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Qatar

The QATAR ‘Diplomatic Crisis

NOVANEWS The QATAR ‘Diplomatic Crisis’: Understanding a Tangled Web of Pantomime/Hypocrisy It was difficult to work out exactly what is behind the ‘Qatar Diplomatic Crisis’ that seemed to suddenly emerge early in June. The Qatar diplomatic crisis apparently began on 5th June when several countries – principally Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE – abruptly cut off diplomatic relations. This included trade and travel bans. Subsequent to this, the Saudi-led group of governments has issued an ultimatum to Qatar in the form of a list of demands that the Gulf State will have to meet. Why? On the surface of it, Saudi Arabia and the other countries have criticised Qatar for funding terrorist organisations. There has also been criticism of Qatar’s relations with Iran and criti...

21Jun

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Qatar: ‘Neighbors’ leading economic siege hacked our news agency

NOVANEWS Qatar says it has evidence showing the same “neighboring” countries that are leading a boycott campaign against Doha had a hand in the alleged hacking of its state news agency, an incident that triggered an unprecedented diplomatic crisis in the Persian Gulf region. Attorney General Ali bin Fetais al-Marri Ali bin Fetais al-Marri told a press conference in Doha on Tuesday that the hacking incident originated in “neighboring countries,” without naming them. “We have evidence to show that iPhones originating from the countries laying siege to us have been used in this hacking. We have enough evidence to point the finger of blame at these countries,” Marri said. Last month, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) released comments attributed to Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, describ...

21Jun

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Qatar hacked by Arab neighbor states, not Russia, as previously reported by CNN

NOVANEWS CNN busted by Qatar for spreading more fake news By Alex Christoforou The reason cited by CNN for the ongoing Saudi-Qatari conflict, in which a coalition of Saudi-led states cut off diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar, originates with a CNN report (via its always handy anonymous sources bullwhip), that Russia is believed to have been behind a Qatar news hack. CNN propaganda word-play is highlighted in bold… US investigators believe Russian hackers breached Qatar’s state news agency and planted a fake news report that contributed to a crisis among the US’ closest Gulf allies, according to US officials briefed on the investigation. The FBI recently sent a team of investigators to Doha to help the Qatari government investigate the alleged hacking incident, Qatari and US gov...