Tel Aviv-based reporter
Gregg Carlstrom is a reporter based in Tel Aviv, Israel. He writes mostly for the Times and Economist. He was previously based in Doha, working for Al Jazeera.
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Gregg Carlstrom
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Flip-flops and confusion from the White House on the Middle East Qatar is a small branch of the Arabian Peninsula. Oil has made its few hundred thousand citizens wealthy, and the US uses its airbase to launch airstrikes against ISIS. But Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other nearby countries have now cut off contact and diplomatic relations — claiming that Qatar has funded terrorism. President Trump agrees, but his Secretary of State calls for calm -- and the US is selling Qatar $12 billion worth of jet fighters.
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