Blockade

The Qatar blockade is working. It must remain crystal clear to the men of Doha that only real change, and not paid campaigns, will ever serve to rescue them.

Turkey has begun a modest and long-planned, but perhaps politically significant, joint military exercise with Qatar, the Gulf state shunned by several of its Sunni Muslim neighbors in a bitter diplomatic dispute.

On Thursday night, the Associated Press reported that Kuwait, acting as an emissary for the other nations blockading Qatar, presented the Qatari government with a list of thirteen specific demands, with just 10 days to comply.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump brought carrots and sticks, respectively, to the dispute between Qatar and several other Arab nations on Friday. Soon after Tillerson called for an end to the diplomatic crisis, Trump said a news conference that Qatar “unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released a new undercover video on Tuesday showing left-wing activists with the “DisruptJ20” effort plotting to stop Donald Trump’s inauguration by chaining D.C. Metro trains and blocking roads.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli navy intercepted a women-only flotilla aimed at breaching the security blockade of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, about 35 miles off the coast.  

Iran state-media outlets are reporting that Iran has begun to blockade imports from the United States.