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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Saudi Arabia and Qatar cozying up to the Zionist usurping entity
"At a time when Israel is not exactly popular around the world, particularly the Arab world, the agreement by two large investment companies from the Gulf states to cooperate with an Israeli group is no trivial matter. It can even be assumed that they will come under fire for it. For the Saudis this is less worrying. There it's a matter of a private body that can always use the Qatar government as a fig leaf for the approval of an investment alongside an Israeli company. The participation of Qatar however has real significance, because that is a matter of a sovereign fund of a very rich and important Arab country. Make no mistake. The investment giants of Qatar and Saudi Arabia don't really need IDB's $250 million to launch the fund. Therefore, their decision to involve an Israeli company can be seen as a kind of economic-diplomatic declaration of their readiness to cooperate with Israel." (thanks Ala`a)