View: Washington Is Outsourcing the Qatar Crisis

The Trump administration is outsourcing the Qatar crisis to Kuwait, banking on the Kuwaiti monarch to bring the months-long crisis to a close. But ahead of a key Gulf Cooperation Council meeting this week, it’s not clear who is going to show up.

Last June, several GCC countries and Egypt imposed a trade blockade of Qatar, responding to what Doha says was a hacked news report that made it sound like Qatar was praising Iran, and Hezbollah and chiding Washington, D.C. Qatar cried foul over the hack, which the FBI has investigated, but the GCC nations have used the incident to make a list of demands of the tiny Gulf nation, including that it cut ties with Iran (with which it shares a large gas field), and stop funding terrorism, which Qatar denies.

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