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udi Arabia 22.8 13,330 0.769 71.9 77.1 58 Average Gulf countries 5.4 16.751 0.804 73.4 79.8 67 Arab Mediterranean Upper middle income Lebanon 3.5 4,170 0.752 73.3 86.5 76 Libya 5.3 7,570 0.773 70.5 80.0 92 Lower middle income Tunisia 9.6 6 390 0.740 72.5 72.1 76 Algeri

i GDP per capita (PPPd US 5) Human Develo pment Index° (%) Life Expectancyb (years) Literacy Rateb (%) Combined enrolment ratio' (%) Arab Gulf countries High income United Arab Emirates 0.816 74.4 76.7 67 2.9 20.530 Qatar 0.6 19,844 0.826 71.8 81.7 81 Kuwait 2.4 18,700 0.8

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ort, despite the dispute over the Assad regime. If the Gaza leadership is to mount an effective pushback against this new initiative, which enjoys Arab Gulf backing, it is going to require significant support from Iran. The Iranians might have incentives to continue to fund Hamas in Gaza to try to sabot

and Salafist acculturation. At least seven Middle Eastern states are now beset by bitter, and increasingly violent, power struggles; states such as Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are dismantling. Western states no longer trouble to conceal their aim of regime change in Syria, following Libya

te debt. Desperate for cash, the government issued "diaspora bonds" last March in an attempt to tap into the savings of the Egyptian expats in the Arab Gulf region. Though no official figures have been released, proceeds from the sales so far seem to fall very short of the $2 billion the government had

a Thomas L. Friedman Article 3. The Washington Institute Avoiding Assad's Forced Solution to the Syria Crisis Andrew J. Tabler Article 4. Now Lebanon Does the US seek an Arab-Iranian "equilibrium?" Hussein Ibish Articles. The Christian Science Monitor As Egypt squeezes Gaza, Hamas looks incre

's competition, perhaps suspicion, but not an active or proxy warfare." This vision isn't going to mollify the suspicions of those concerned about Arab Gulf security. In December, I speculated that a "plausible, but still from an Arab point of view alarming, scenario is that the US is seeking to create

n the region at the same time as they supported it in backroom dealings, quietly authorizing facilities support and air, land, and sea access. But if Arab Gulf states were quietly supportive in the past, their opposition to American military force is likely to grow in the future. They read the aftermath of t

t Iran. For example, the United States took no direct military action against Iran after it aided and abetted Hezbollah bombings against Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, after Iran supported the bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, or even after Iran supported the deadly campaign of improvis