Most of the Middle East is a disaster.
You can thank former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the rise of the ISIS and the current state of war-torn Syria.
But news just broke that several countries have officially cut ties with a Middle Eastern country for their connections to terrorism.
On President Trump’s first overseas trip, he stopped in Saudi Arabia where he was told that Qatar had financial ties to terrorist organizations.
Now, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are banding together to cut off all ties with Qatar.
Breitbart reports:
“Saudi Arabia and three Arab countries severed ties to Qatar on Monday and moved to cut off land, sea and air routes to the energy-rich nation that is home to a major U.S. military base, accusing it of supporting regional terror groups.
Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates made no demands of Qatar as their decision plunged the international travel hub into chaos and ignited the biggest diplomatic crisis in the Gulf since the 1991 war against Iraq.
Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup and is home to some 10,000 American troops, criticized the move as a ‘violation of its sovereignty.’
It long has denied supporting militant groups and described the crisis as being fueled by ‘absolute fabrications’ stemming from a recent hack of its state-run news agency.
Saudi Arabia closed its land border with Qatar, through which the tiny Gulf nation imports most of its food, sparking a run on supermarkets.
The four countries began withdrawing their diplomatic staff from Qatar as regional airlines announced they’d suspend service to its capital, Doha.
Saudi Arabia said it took the decision to cut diplomatic ties due to Qatar’s ‘embrace of various terrorist and sectarian groups aimed at destabilizing the region’ including the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaida, the Islamic State group and groups supported by Iran in the kingdom’s restive Eastern Province.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry accused Qatar of taking an ‘antagonist approach’ toward Cairo and said ‘all attempts to stop it from supporting terrorist groups failed.’
The countries all ordered their citizens out of Qatar and gave Qataris abroad 14 days to return home to their peninsular nation, whose only land border is with Saudi Arabia.
The countries also said they would eject Qatar’s diplomats.
All the nations also said they planned to cut air and sea traffic. Doha-based satellite news network Al-Jazeera reported trucks carrying food had begun to line up on the Saudi side of the border, apparently stranded.
The Qatar Stock Exchange fell more than 7 percent.”
Upon hearing the news, Trump also addressed the banded decision.
During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017
And then a couple hours later President Trump tweeted more support.
So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017
…extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017
Now is the time to alienate all aggressive countries with ties to terrorism so they can learn the errors in their ways.