Earlier this week, the Jerusalem Post reported that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had harsh words for the countries of Turkey and Qatar.

The Egyptian president told a group of newspaper editors that “Qatar, Turkey and the international organization of the Brotherhood are currently establishing many companies, newspapers and websites. They allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to spread chaos among the Arab nation, destabilizing Egypt and destroying the Egyptians.”

Turkey and Qatar supported the rule of al-Sisi’s predecessor, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, who is currently on trial for a number of offenses including conspiring to kill political opponents.

Turkey and Qatar supported Hamas during Operation Protective Edge and undermined Egyptian efforts to achieve a ceasefire.

In his recent article Qatar’s Rise and America’s Tortured Middle East Policy, which appeared in the August 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Jonathan Spyer explained al-Sisi’s frustration with the emirate:

Qatari funds have been crucial to Hamas’ military build-up in recent years, as they were to the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempted takeover of Egypt under Mohammed Morsi. And the Doha-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera is energetically backing Hamas, as it has other terrorist-connected and supporting movements.

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