Mohammed Al-Jufairi

شوفو شنو لقينا في محطة بيكر في لندن! إعلان من عام ١٩٧٨ عن معرض فني قطري هنا في #لندن! يدهشني شلون تاريخ قطر مع الفن لا يزال منحوت في أسوار محطات الأنفاق في لندن بعد عقود من الزمن.

للأسف، ما يحدث في الخليج أصبح حربًا بكل ما تحمله الكلمة من معنى. وقد ازداد المشهد تعقيدًا خلال اليومين الماضيين مع دخول أنصار الله، وهو أحد أسباب هذا التعقيد، لكنه بالتأكيد ليس السبب الوحيد. وإذا لم نشهد حلًا خلال الأيام القليلة القادمة، فقد يتجه الوضع نحو تصعيد أطول مما كان متوقعًا. من الواضح أن هناك أطرافًا ترغب في استمرار هذه الحرب، وهي تدرك أن تبعاتها لن تمسها بشكل مباشر، باستثناء بعض الصواريخ المحدودة. وأقصد هنا إسرائيل، التي تبقى موانئها مفتوحة على البحر الأبيض المتوسط والبحر الأحمر، مهما كانت الظروف. أما منطقتنا، فإن استمرار الحصار الخانق على مضيق هرمز قد يؤدي إلى تداعيات اقتصادية خطيرة، ليس فقط على دول المنطقة التي قد تتمكن من الصمود لفترة بل على الاقتصاد العالمي بأسره. وهنا يبرز السؤال الأهم: من المستفيد من هذا الانهيار؟ ولماذا؟ من المؤكد أن الولايات المتحدة ليست المستفيد الحقيقي، لكن يبقى الغموض قائمًا حول ما إذا كان القرار بيدها أم بيد إسرائيل في هذا الملف. وهذا ما قد تكشفه الأيام القادمة بشكل أوضح. ما أود التأكيد عليه هو أن المشهد يزداد تعقيدًا، وأننا بحاجة ماسة إلى نتائج ملموسة من جهود دول المنطقة لنزع فتيل هذا التصعيد. أعلم أن هناك مساعي جادة، ومن ضمنها جهود بلدي، لكن تحقيق النتائج يتطلب دورًا أمريكيًا أكثر حزمًا في ضبط مسار القرار، بدلًا من تركه بيد إسرائيل. لقد حذّرت سابقًا من خطر الانزلاق إلى حرب استنزاف طويلة في المنطقة، واليوم يبدو أن هذا السيناريو بات أقرب للواقع. وهذه الحرب، إن استمرت، لن يربح منها سوى عدد محدود من الدول، بينما ستتكبد الغالبية خسائر اقتصادية كبيرة.

George Bush is being sent back to the Gulf after 36 years. No irony lost in how they name their ships.

A reminder that in 1994 Galloway, then a Labour MP, met Saddam Hussein and told him "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability."

This guy went totally bonkers 😂

@BrydonN2 Should be out for a while now 😁

@Halawala @hahussain Still got your umbrella ☔️ out ?

Kuwait before 1991 was what Qatar is today: a wealthy nation using its money as a troublemaker, usually against Israel and the West. Since its inception in 1890, Kuwait had lived in fear of Iraqi (Ottoman) invasion and annexation. Independent Iraq, too, wanted to annex Kuwait, beginning in 1958. Kuwait reasoned that the best way to avoid the rage of revolutionary regimes like Iraq was to befriend them. It was in Kuwait that Yasser Arafat founded his Fatah organization and began his rise. Kuwait became a thorn in the side of Israel, America, and the West. When the West helped install Khomeini to counter the expansion of the Soviet Union toward the Strait of Hormuz, Kuwait was one of the main financiers of Soviet ally Saddam Hussein in his war against Islamic Iran. For three decades, Kuwait fed Arafat, Saddam, the Palestinian cause, and everything in between. Then, in 1990, Saddam invaded Kuwait. His forces burned it down, robbed its banks and jewelry stores, and torched its oil fields. Arafat opposed the liberation of Kuwait and sided with Saddam. That was when Kuwait realized that the Palestinian cause, Arab nationalism, and Islamism were not friends, but enemies. After its liberation in 1991, Kuwait stepped back and tried to remain as neutral as possible. But by 2011, internal political turbulence and a new generation that had forgotten how toxic the Palestinian cause was began returning to hatred of Israel, this time by befriending the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey, Qatar, and Islamic Iran. The result, as in 1990, is that Iran is now pounding Kuwait with ballistic missiles and explosive drones. Qatar did not learn Kuwait’s lesson either. Qatar befriended Iran to stay on its good side, only to be pummeled by Iran with ballistic missiles and explosive drones. Yesterday, Iranian proxies in Iraq rained drones on Kuwait. With the exception of an Israeli strike on Hamas in Doha last year, neither Kuwait nor Qatar—nor any of their citizens—has ever been assaulted by Israel or America, the presumed evil powers and enemies of Arabs and Muslims. It is time for Kuwait and Qatar to rethink who their friends and enemies truly are, and to decide where they stand on the Abraham Accords and bilateral peace with Israel. The Palestinian cause will always be there anyway—and it will always wish these wealthy Gulf nations destroyed.

@BrydonN2 @hahussain No need to apologize dear ❤️😘

@Halawala @hahussain Oh M my apologies… I was intent on his comments about Kuwait …. I scrolled down at the end in his rubbish Qatar views

@aeroroutes QR’s new schedule seems to have a substantial increase in flights— with the midnight flights going to be operational soon.

@Halawala of course.

As of Monday 23MAR26, Qatar Airways has filed interim schedule for the period of 01-15APR26, as the carrier continues to operate reduced schedule

@BrydonN2 @hahussain Absolute rubbish. Surprised that you would fall for his BS. Hussain and all his so called colleagues at the FDD have nothing to do but talk shit about Qatar. Qatar is a major US/EU partner in the Gulf and it brokered the Gaza deal which released the hostages of many things.

@hahussain Spot on 👏🏽

Hello

I wonder why no one is mentioning that the main Shipping Lanes in the Straits falls totally within Omani waters— a GCC country. Iran cannot threaten to take over any part of a GCC country or its sovereign waters!

The main shipping lane in the Strait lies fully within the territorial waters of the Sultanate of Oman. This will undoubtedly not be part of any deal with Iran.

@aeroroutes Yes indeed, but the 7% was due to a planned maintenance closure of one of the runways at Hia.

@Halawala not to mention the average 7% cut scheduled in 2Q26 prior to the conflict

@aeroroutes That’s really sad. I was expecting more of an increase in flights like DXB as the situation seems calmer than before.

@Halawala also forgot to mention QR already made more cuts for this week but I'm not really going over this week's schedule.

BREAKING: Trump announces halt to any plans for strikes on Iranian power plants

تنعى وزارة الدفاع ببالغ الحزن والأسى شهداء الوطن ، والذين استشهدوا أثناء أداء واجبهم الوطني، وهم يقدمون أسمى معاني التضحية في خدمة الوطن. وهم: - النقيب (طيار) مبارك سالم دواي المري - النقيب (طيار) سعيد ناصر صميخ - الرقيب فهد هادي غانم الخيارين - الوكيل عريف محمد ماهر محمد وتتقدم وزارة الدفاع بخالص العزاء والمواساة إلى أسرهم الكريمة، سائلة الله عز وجل أن يتغمدهم بواسع رحمته، وأن يلهم ذويهم الصبر والسلوان. إنَّا لله و إنَّا اليه راجعون The Ministry of Defense mourns with profound sorrow and grief the nation’s martyrs, who lost their lives while carrying out their national duty, embodying the highest values of sacrifice in service to the country. They are: • Captain (Pilot) Mubarak Salem Dawai Al-Marri • Captain (Pilot) Saeed Nasser Smeikh • Sergeant Fahad Hadi Ghanem Al-Khayareen • Corporal Mohammed Maher Mohammed The Ministry of Defense extends its sincere condolences and deepest sympathy to their honorable families, praying that Almighty Allah grants them His vast mercy and inspires their loved ones with patience and solace. Indeed, to God we belong and to Him we shall return.

@3zozing @Alkhali33262936 اخوه العن منه طلع

@Alkhali33262936 هذا اخوه

بعد أن تلقى هجوم كبير من جميع العرب حتى من ابناء وطنه ، قام بإغلاق حسابه.

ما هذا العداء ؟ وما ذنب #دول_الخليج_العربي في أخذهم رهينة والتهديد بضربهم وضرب بنيتهم التحتية كلما هددتكم او ضربتكم #امريكا او #الكيان_الصهيوني ردوا عليهم ودمروهم بعيد عنا ، وسنكون لكم من الشاكرين .👇👇👇👇

@Dr_Ulrichsen Very interested to know why the British didn’t fight to get these islands, noting they were still in the protectorate and it was a bloodbath with one UAE martyred

Very brief summary of the issue from my 2016 book on the UAE (Power, Politics and Policymaking)

Now that they are regionally isolated and their policies are backfiring, they resort to the wicked tactic of sowing division and creating confusion. Nobody trusts #Iran, just as nobody trusts #Israel and the #US