How Qatar is Trying to Become the Switzerland of the Middle East | Wendover Productions
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How Qatar is Trying to Become the Switzerland of the Middle East | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202631 min
  • Documentary
  • Politics

How Qatar is Trying to Become the Switzerland of the Middle East To try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, visit http://brilliant.org/wendover The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant's annual premium subscriptionInstagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected] Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductionsWriting by Sam Denby and Tristan Purdy Editing by Alexander Williard Lead Motion Design by Max Moser Motion Design by Sara Stoltman, Derek Brown Audio and Music by Manni Simon, Donovan Bullen Additional Editing...

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Somewhere in Doha, amidst the glitzy hotels, the incongruous liquor stores, the beachfront developments, perhaps near the Formula One racetrack or a Cheesecake Factory outpost or the World Cup stadiums, is the political headquarters of Hamas. It's not clear exactly where they're set up, but the movement's political leader,

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Ismail Hania, was seen in this video praying in a Doha office as their paramilitary burst through Israel's walls, killing over a thousand and capturing hundreds as hostages. Yet no matter where in Doha this is, just miles away live almost 10,000 US military members.

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At Al-Uddid Air Base, troops later loaded up C-17s with bombs which were flown to Cyprus, then to Israel to be handed over to the IDF and eventually used as part of their brutal invasion of Gaza on a mission to exterminate Hamas. components of opposing sides of the same conflict took part just a taxi ride away from each

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