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So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010

So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010

So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010

So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010

So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010

So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010

Martin Indyk recalls that Yitzhak Rabin argued at the beginning of the Oslo peace process “that Iran represented the real threat to Israel, and so it made sense for Israel to make peace with the Palestinians and their Arab allies in order to face together the threat from Iran.”

How Iran Could Save the Middle East 2009

So, how to make use of what the Middle East expert Martin Indyk calls the “symbiotic anxiety” shared by Israel and its Sunni Arab adversaries?

How Iran Could Save the Middle East 2009

So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010

So strong the Qatar influence inside Brookings that Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel and a leading figure at the institute, flies routinely to Doha where he meets advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad and their pro-Hezbollah Lebanese protégés.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Broken Washington: The Cases of Zogby and the Brookings Institute Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2010