Results for “Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf”

with terror attacks, a major military response was highly unlikely. Saddam’s successors were never going to be Zionists. But we were persuaded that his uniquely central role meant the threat to Israel would be dramatically reduced. I’m much less sure whether the elder President...

24 relationships, the course of operations and other factors would place the United States and Iran at the center of more or less structured coalitions of the marginally willing. A Western coalition could consist of the United States and most of its traditional allies (but very...

…nalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-backed Shi’ ite militia fighters of Hizbollah. Each of us in the small group on...

…egimes seem to be passing the way of the dodo bird, but the new regimes taking shape are heavily influenced by militant Islamic ideology that will make them less likely to engage in security or military cooperation with the United States. Democracy optimists argue that these ide...

…n it's a good thing," said Andrew Hammond, policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia. "Fundamentally, the chances of the Syrian tragedy being brought to an end, or the beginning of this disa...

…n it’s a good thing,” said Andrew Hammond, policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia. “Fundamentally, the chances of the Syrian tragedy being brought to an end, or the beginning of this dis...

…iative created the possibility of universal recognition of the State of Israel. All 57 countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) endorsed the initiative. The aftermath of the Gulf War of 1991 opened new opportunities to address the complex issue of peace in the...

…f States, Jordan, Egypt and perhaps even Turkey (which is not Arab). The focal interest is the struggle against radical Islamic terrorism and against Iran's hegemonic and nuclear intentions. ¢ The challenge for us is based on there being, apparently, only one way to achieve that...

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…nalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-backed Shi’ ite militia fighters of Hizbollah. Each of us in the small group on...

…d turn it into a theocracy. Zawahiri was always frustrated that it was a Shiite country that became the first important Islamic theocracy in the modern world. He will devote himself to making Egypt a Sunni replica of the Iranian state, and not the end of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018095

… longest and strongest ally and, to many Westerners’ amazement, it is impossible for the US to move against any hostile Islamic group anywhere in the world without Saudi support. Almost two billion Muslims look to Mecca and Medina as their spiritual heartland and challenging any...

What matters is return. I don’t have to specify “risk-adjusted” return so long as | describe the collective scale alone. Collective return is implicitly average-risk return. I prioritize it on the reasoning that optimizing employment of people and plant is implicit, and that opti...

Deployment challenges are limiting sovereign ability to match targets In previous reports, we observed sovereigns’ return gaps, driven by low interest rates and challenging targets for fixed income allocations. We have also noted how appetite for alternatives has grown as sovere...

taxes, and charitable contributions (the exemption phase-out and deduction limitation are colloquially known as “PEP and Pease”). These changes, coupled with the new 3.8% tax on net investment income (see below), may mean an unhappy surprise for many taxpayers on April 15, 2014,...