#Bakhshish means it's a bribe.
"One ‘think tank’ simply funding another ‘think tank’." #UAE funding ECSSR & MEI $50 million in 2008
Plus get this" The chairman of MEI’s board, Richard Clarke (former top national security adviser to both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush) was cheeper to buy in the past when he has been particularly openly critical of the Saudi government, until of course he received his last ‘bakhshish’, a miserable $500,000 check when Clarke once walked out of the Saudi embassy meeting with al-Jubeir."