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Qatar has also maintained discreet contact with Israel – though more openly than its Gulf neighbours – inviting then foreign minister Tzipi Livni to one of Doha's many international conferences.

Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s, seeing in the minority ethnic group a buffer against shared Arab adversaries.

But China has also maintained discreet links with opponents of Myanmar's military rulers and tolerates the activity of some exiled opponents on Chinese soil, the experts said.

Ultraconservatives from right-wing intellectuals to criminal syndicates have always maintained discreet contacts with the conservative governing party, the Liberal Democrats.

The most significant revelation was that Israel believes that beyond a certain point attacking Iran would cause too much "collateral damage".Israel can be seen maintaining discreet contact with Gulf states and have an intriguing intelligence link to Saudi Arabia.

At the same time, Qatar became the first Arab country to heed Lebanese pleas to break Israel's blockade (due to end this week), by launching daily flights to Beirut in defiance of Israel's demands that air traffic receive its prior clearance.One reason Qatar can challenge Israel is that it, unlike most Arab countries, maintains discreet, low-level relations with the Jewish state.

Talabani, who was about to fly to Syria, maintained a discreet silence.

(She has maintained a discreet silence about her one-time fiancé's most recent bad press).

With so many people still lost, the owners of this stuff have maintained a discreet silence during the recovery operations.

Since taking office, President Bush has maintained a discreet distance between himself and the Republican Party's fund-raising operations.

And unlike its directors, who have maintained a discreet distance on the subject, McGowan is openly critical of the film's handling.