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Qatar right now

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:30 am
by peachestotulips
Whoa.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Yemen and the Maldives have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar.

This move bans citizens from Saudi, Egypt, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Libya and Yemen from travelling to Qatar, living there or traveling through it. People affected have 14 days to leave.

All the Middle Eastern airlines are cancelling routes and closing their airspace to Qatar.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40155829

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/q ... 50769.html

Inquiry

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 2:19 am
by PsyGuy
Did people from The Kingdom, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Libya and Yemen want to go to Qatar?

Re: Qatar right now

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 10:22 pm
by Mike
Yes, actually!

There are 180,000 Egyptians working here in very important white collar jobs.

Many Saudi's travel here for holidays.

Plus many of my students parents are Qataris married to people from Saudi, Bahrain and the UAE.

So thanks Trump your Tweets are messing up the world!

Re: Qatar right now

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 3:34 am
by OzGrad
Little girls are being blown up at pop concerts and you direct your anger at Trump's tweets...

Re: Qatar right now

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:37 am
by Mike
Not really connected... and yes Trumps tweets have caused a lot of people a lot of problems here in Qatar.

Re: Qatar right now

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 1:20 pm
by b12r
Glad I was not the one one thinking this @OzGrad

@Mike, can you provide direct examples of this? thanks

Re: Qatar right now

Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 10:50 pm
by Mike
For an international perspective:

https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... /529479/--
....... it’s worrisome to see Trump applying his transactionalist approach so breezily. Without partnerships, U.S. counterterrorism policy suffers. Without partners, U.S. foreign policy flounders.

For a personal perspective, many teachers spent thousands of extra dollars changing flights to get home for summer. And many people are worried about the future of Qatar.

Re: Qatar right now

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:26 am
by b12r
This is tweets that happened after the fact. You conveyed in your first response that tweets prior to this incident caused this.

Re: Qatar right now

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 12:51 pm
by yoganinja77
Is anyone going to offer any substantial perspective on the OP's question?

Comment

Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 2:24 pm
by PsyGuy
@yoganinja77

The LW didnt actually pose an inquiry to the membership.