The following overview was written in connection with a Middle East Forum conference, "Qatar: U.S. Ally or Global Menace," taking place in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 6, 2019. To watch it live-streamed, click here. Despite international criticism, the small
both parties. we should not be labelling what we have seen happening as protests. i think the weekly standard editorial said these are suicide riots where you have hamas encouraging young palestinian men to threaten israeli guards and throw molotov cocktails at them, to wield axes and other weapons. we should be careful we label what is happening. to melissa s point, this is part of pulling out of the iran deal. rather than enriching a power in the world which the iranian nuclear deal that was brokered by the obama administration did, we re trying to weaken it. trying to remove its power. iran is directly connected to what its doing in syria. this is money that we have funneled through a hundred billion dollars in sanctions relief that we funneled to iran that they re spending in this aggression campaign in syria, waging war against israel and