Dubbed 'the wild card of the Middle East' and described as a 'complex country' by Benjamin Netanyahu, Qatar's foreign policies appear self-contradictory to the world. Qatar has long pursued a foreign policy that appears self-contradictory to the world in general, and positively infuriating to its Arab neighbors. While offering itself as a key US ally in the Middle East, it has also consistently backed hardline Islamists -- from Hamas in the Gaza Strip to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, to wild-eyed jihadists in Assad's Syria.