PREVIEW: Guest Name: Mary Kissel Summary: Mary Kissel reflects on an emergency meeting of Arab states in Doha regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. She compares it to OIC gatherings, suggesting these meetings are largely for show and propaganda, noting tha
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
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Summary: Mary Kissel reflects on an emergency meeting of Arab states in Doha regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. She compares it to OIC gatherings, suggesting these meetings are largely for show and propaganda, noting that privately, Gulf leaders acknowledge Iran as a problem that needs to be contained.
Formal Name: Mary Kissel, Executive Vice President, Stephens Incorporated
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| 0:24.8 | Stevens Incorporated, former senior advisor of the Secretary of State, traveling widely with |
| 0:30.1 | Mike Pompeo, especially in the Islamic world, the Umah. |
| 0:34.2 | Mayor Mary reflects on the news that there will be an emergency meeting of Arabs' states in Doha to discuss the recent incident where Israel launched against Hamas' leadership that was principal in the attack on Israel and the depredations ever since 2023, including the abuse of the hostages dead and alive, |
| 0:57.7 | now being held and refused to end the war by returning them to their homes. |
| 1:03.3 | However, Mary reflects on these emergency meetings by comparing it to Islamic meetings, |
| 1:10.0 | and what is achieved? |
| 1:13.2 | Surprisingly, what is achieved, surprisingly, what is achieved, surprisingly. |
| 1:18.5 | It's married to explain. |
| 1:20.5 | Much more of this later. |
| 1:23.9 | I think it's just another meeting. |
| 1:26.0 | It's like the organization of Islamic countries, the O I see. |
| 1:29.7 | You know, we worked with them for many years to try to get them to care about all of the Muslim |
| 1:36.5 | faithful in Xinjiang China who were being put into concentration camps, tortured, raped, murdered, |
| 1:42.6 | et cetera. And, you know, they didn't lift a finger. |
| 1:46.4 | So a lot of these get-togethers are for show. They're for the local populations. They're for |
| 1:53.0 | propaganda purposes. They're not actually for action. And I do think it's interesting that, |
| 1:58.8 | you know, ever since Iran launched its, you know, horrific attacks on Israel |
| 2:03.9 | on October 7th and in direct attacks. And since Israel's response, you know, there has been a |
| 2:12.1 | quiet assent in the Gulf, like for instance from Saudi Arabia, if you talk to leaders there privately, |
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