2/2: #Qatar: #Turkey: Doha and Ankara aid, abet, protect and aggrandize Hamas chiefs & What Lawfare can be done? Orde Kittrie, FDD, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'connor Law School
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
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2/2: #Qatar: #Turkey: Doha and Ankara aid, abet, protect and aggrandize Hamas chiefs & What Lawfare can be done? Orde Kittrie, FDD, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'connor Law School
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/12/15/u-s-lawfare-options-for-helping-bring-hamas-to-its-knees/
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| 0:23.9 | your phone and Chromebook. I'm John Batter with Ord Kitri, a senior fellow of the Foundation for the |
| 0:35.8 | Defense of Democracy and importantly Professor of Law at Arizona State |
| 0:39.7 | University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. He's helping me understand that there is law on the books or about to be on the books that is useful. The polite term is leverage. Threat would be a less than polite word, towards bad actors Qatar in the |
| 0:57.4 | Gulf. It's a fantasy world, mostly desert, and then there's this very large city built out of nowhere at the edge of the |
| 1:06.6 | water, and then somewhere inside, which I did not visit, but many have, is the largest air base outside of the United States. |
| 1:16.1 | What can be done about that air base over it? |
| 1:20.5 | So the U.S. does indeed have an air base, the Al-U-Dade Air Base in Qatar. |
| 1:29.0 | The US government reportedly considered alternatives to Aloudaid in 2017 |
| 1:36.7 | amidst tensions between Qatar and its neighbors. Aloudaid is reportedly less valuable to the US now than it was prior to the American departure |
| 1:46.1 | from Afghanistan. |
| 1:48.9 | You know, the US government, Qatar, has leverage over the US in part of, because of this air base, but there are |
| 1:57.5 | other places in the Middle East where the air base could go, potentially in the UAE or Saudi Arabia and so if the |
| 2:07.1 | US wants to send a message to Qatar use leverage over Qatar to get them to crack down on Hamas, and such a |
| 2:16.5 | crackdown would save so much bloodshed in the Middle East. The U.S. can announce, |
| 2:22.1 | or Congress could legislatively mandate planning for |
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