Jamal al-Suwaidi, founder of Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research,  told British The Guardian in March that Palestinian issue is no longer at the top of the in Persian Gulf states. .. ..…

Yossi Mansharof, an Iran expert at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, said, “[T]he connections between Iran and pij [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] are very tight, since the leader of the group, Ziad Nakhaleh, is very close to [Iranian Gen. ... Hamas and Palestinian..…