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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Just one of the many ways UAE and other wahhabi shitdoms lobby the ....

extremely easy to bribe United States of America.

Alex Emmons at TheIntercept
Hacked Email Shows UAE Ambassador Lobbying the Obama White House on Yemen War

Part of keeping close relationships with serial human rights violators, as the U.S. does, is the constant pressure from those governments to ignore their reported abuses. That dynamic was on full display in a hacked email exchange between the United Arab Emirates’ influential ambassador to the U.S. and a top Obama national security official. The sometimes testy back-and-forth between allies, which was obtained by The Intercept, shows how friendly foreign governments lobby the White House on human rights, and how the White House sometimes pushes back.......

During the exchange, which took place in June 2016, the UAE’s Ambassador Yousef Al-Otaiba tries to convince Robert Malley, then a top Middle East advisor to President Barack Obama, that human rights reporting critical of the U.S.-backed bombing coalition in Yemen was unfairly biased. The UAE is a key member of the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemen war, which has killed thousands of people, destroyed hospitals, food sources, and water infrastructure, and left 7 million people on the brink of starvation.

In the exchange, Otaiba tried to persuade Malley that reporting by the British-based news agency Reuters was unfairly biased. Otaiba focused on a Reuters report that said Arab monarchies had pressured then-U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon into removing the Yemen coalition from a U.N. list that shames countries for killing children. The Reuters story claimed that Persian Gulf state foreign ministers had threatened to withhold millions of dollars of from U.N. humanitarian programs. In an extraordinary press conference two days later, Ban all but confirmed the report......

.....Otaiba is an influential voice in D.C. foreign policy circles, known for his galas and lavish dinner parties pitching U.S. support for aggressive and interventionist action by the U.S. in the middle east. These days, Otaiba’s influence is waxing thanks to his close relationship with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner. The two keep “almost constant phone and email contact,” according to Politico.....

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