Karl Miller, whose assessments of the Gulf energy crisis I have relied on throughout this war, has now turned to the money and the politics behind that security bargain. His new report is titled, provocatively, “How the Gulf Countries Were Extorted to Fund Economic and Individual Genocide in #Palestine.” The title states his allegation. What makes the report worth reading is that Miller is careful to separate what he alleges from what the documents prove, and the documented record is damning enough on its own.

Follow the money: Affinity Partners

At the center of the report is #AffinityPartners, the investment firm Jared #Kushner founded after leaving his post as senior adviser in his father-in-law’s first administration, where he was a principal architect of the #AbrahamAccords. Gulf sovereign money flowed in almost immediately. Miller reconstructs the publicly reported commitments:

The sanctions were never about Ukraine — just a failed proxy war. Cue the laugh track.