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Trump must not abandon Gulf allies to Iranian hegemony

If President Donald Trump backs down at this point in the war, it will leave the Gulf States to face a more radicalized and dangerous Iran seeking to impose its will on the Muslim
world.

After Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Osama bin Laden offered to defend Saudi Arabia using his network of jihadist fighters rather than relying on the U.S. Shocked at the arrival of the Americans, the terrorist leader condemned what he saw as an “occupation” of American “crusader forces” in the Muslim holy land.

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Liram Stenzler-Koblentz PhD

Dr. Liram Koblentz-Stenzler a scholar and practitioner with a wealth of experience in fields of counterterrorism, antisemitism studies and global far-right Extremism. She is senior researcher and head of the Global Far Right Extremism Desk at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Reichman University, Israel and lecturer at Yale University. She advises security agencies, technology companies, other organizations, and communities to achieve better understanding of the language, global connections, and action patterns of right-wing extremists in order to prevent acts of terrorism, incitement to violence, and antisemitism.

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