{"id":645025,"date":"2017-07-10T04:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/07\/10\/egypt-gcc-countries-played-their-hand-too-soon-with-qatar\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:29:19","slug":"egypt-gcc-countries-played-their-hand-too-soon-with-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/07\/10\/egypt-gcc-countries-played-their-hand-too-soon-with-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, GCC countries played their hand too soon with Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Egypt and the GCC countries played their hand too soon in their rift with Qatar<\/strong>, and now have little (if any) room to escalate their punitive measures, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/news\/details\/1160224\">Al Masry Al Youm\u2019s Mohamed Kamal says<\/a>. Resorting to a military escalation \u2014 the nuclear option \u2014 would not sit will with other regional powers or the rest of the world, making it a highly unlikely option. As such, the quartet\u2019s only move is to ramp up economic and political sanctions, in which case they should be prepared to play the waiting game until Qatar feels the pinch enough to come around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt and the GCC countries played their hand too soon in their rift with Qatar, and now have little (if any) room to escalate their punitive measures, Al Masry Al Youm\u2019s Mohamed Kamal says. Resorting to a military escalation \u2014 the nuclear option \u2014 would not sit will with other regional powers or the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9411],"tags":[72,9410],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-645025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-deadline","tag-enterpriseam","tag-on-deadline","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"5a2ac335-6fa8-4c56-b91d-6335a1a8df84","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[644997],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Egypt, GCC countries played their hand too soon with Qatar - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/07\/10\/egypt-gcc-countries-played-their-hand-too-soon-with-qatar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt, GCC countries played their hand too soon with Qatar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Egypt and the GCC countries played their hand too soon in their rift with Qatar, and now have little (if any) room to escalate their punitive measures, Al Masry Al Youm\u2019s Mohamed Kamal says. 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