{"id":3162,"date":"2018-03-19T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2018-03-19T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:04:27","slug":"the-secret-yacht-summit-that-realigned-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/19\/the-secret-yacht-summit-that-realigned-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SECRET YACHT SUMMIT THAT REALIGNED THE MIDDLE EAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-317\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST-1024x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST-560x278.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST-260x129.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST-160x79.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MIDDLE_EAST.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Middle East Eye<\/p>\n<p>George Nader, the Lebanese-American businessman and convicted paedophile, who is co-operating with special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Donald Trump\u2019s campaign funding, organised a secret summit of Arab leaders on a yacht in the Red Sea in late 2015, Middle East Eye can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Nader proposed to the leaders gathered on the yacht that they should set up an elite regional group of six countries, which would supplant both the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the moribund Arab League.<\/p>\n<p>Nader said this group of states could become a force in the region \u201cthat the US government could depend on\u201d to counter the influence of Turkey and Iran, according to two sources briefed on the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/george-nader-yacht-how-mbs-salman-red-sea-summit-mbz-sisi-plotted-qatar-turkey-jordan-saudi-gcc-arab-league-867425259<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Middle East Eye George Nader, the Lebanese-American businessman and convicted paedophile, who is co-operating with special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Donald Trump\u2019s campaign funding, organised a secret summit of Arab leaders on a yacht in the Red Sea in late 2015, Middle East Eye can reveal. Nader proposed to the leaders gathered on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/19\/the-secret-yacht-summit-that-realigned-the-middle-east\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE SECRET YACHT SUMMIT THAT REALIGNED THE MIDDLE EAST<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1577,252],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-gulf-cooperation-council-gcc","tag-middle-east","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}