{"id":314207,"date":"2026-03-16T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=314207"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:02:41","slug":"uae-billionaire-to-trump-who-authorized-you-to-turn-our-region-into-a-war-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/03\/uae-billionaire-to-trump-who-authorized-you-to-turn-our-region-into-a-war-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Billionaire to Trump: Who Authorized You to Turn Our Region into a War Zone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">5 Mar 2026 &#8211; <em>The Gulf Countries are not arenas for settling scores.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khalaf-ahmad-ak-habtoors-post-on-x-trump-uae.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khalaf-ahmad-ak-habtoors-post-on-x-trump-uae.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khalaf-ahmad-ak-habtoors-post-on-x-trump-uae.png 588w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/khalaf-ahmad-ak-habtoors-post-on-x-trump-uae-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a>__________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Khalaf-Ahmad-Al-Habtoor.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-314209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Khalaf-Ahmad-Al-Habtoor.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Khalaf-Ahmad-Al-Habtoor.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Khalaf-Ahmad-Al-Habtoor-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor (born 1949) is a prominent self-made Emirati billionaire and founder of the Al Habtoor Group, one of the UAE&#8217;s largest conglomerates spanning construction, hospitality, automotive, real estate, and education. Born into modest beginnings in Dubai, he established his business empire in 1970, growing it into a global entity while becoming a key figure in the UAE&#8217;s economic development. He is recognized not only as a successful entrepreneur but also as a civic-minded leader committed to the development and international reputation of the UAE.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Mar 2026 &#8211; The Gulf Countries are not arenas for settling scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":314209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1669,3281,742,88,767,475,818,2159,880,249,981,70,481],"class_list":["post-314207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arabs","tag-evil-empire","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-netanyahu","tag-proxy-war","tag-rogue-states","tag-state-terrorism","tag-trump","tag-uae","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314214,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314207\/revisions\/314214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}