Once
again the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf area is boiling as usual and several
countries are involved in the proxy wars going on in the region. The Syrian
civil war has been dragging on for about six years with no signs of an end to
the conflict. Thousands of innocent civilians both women and children have been
killed as a result of the various factions inability to resolve their
differences. Then to add more fuel to the tension in the Middle East and the
Gulf region, the Saudis, Emiratis, Egyptians and Bahrainis are accusing Qatar
of sponsoring terrorism in the region. Most of the trumped up charges against
Qatar are either demonstrably thin, false or totally fake.
Are
the Americans not aware they asked the Qataris to open an office for the
Taliban in Doha so as to facilitate peace talks? Qatar has also been accused of
supporting some of the rebel groups in Syria, but a number of the Gulf States
are equally guilty of this. Qatar is also being accused of allowing Hamas a
political presence in the capital, Doha. Qatar is also being accused of
punching above her weight, that’s politically. The last accusation is that,
Qatar has been financing the Aljazeera News network and providing platforms for
persons and groups hostile to the US and Israel, and at the same time hosting
the biggest US military base in the region. All these allegations being leveled
against Qatar are the most ridiculous allegations being leveled against another
sovereign country by a group of so called spotless countries. The most
interesting thing about this whole saga is that, these allegations surfaced
just after the visit of the US President, Donald John Trump to the region. I
hope you are reading some meanings into this. Was he bribed by the Saudis with
the billions of dollars which were exchanged for arms and military hardware?
Who does not know that Saudi Arabia is one of the worst abusers of human rights
in the Middle East and the world? The world is mute about that, and have even
allowed the Saudis to chair the Human Rights Council at the United Nations.
The
whole world knows that the Egyptians clandestinely supported Hamas, but Israel
did nothing to counter that. Saudi Arabia has also been supporting so called moderate
opposition elements in the Syrian civil war and have also been conducting a
series of bombings in Yemen against the Houthi rebels and this has led to the
death of many innocent civilians with women and children being the worst
affected. As usual, the Qataris have refused to kowtow to the demands of the
Gulf States and Saudi Arabia. Turkey has deployed thousands of troops and
military hardware in Qatar to shore up the confidence and the strength of the
Qataris. The Iranians are also sending food supplies and military hardware to
support Doha. The Qataris have been given an ultimatum to stop supporting
terrorists, to shut down the AlJazeera News network, close down the Turkish
military base and other demands from Saudi Arabia and her allies made up of Bahrain,
Egypt and the UAE. We all know that it is just a matter of time for the
Russians and the Chinese to jump in. Saudi Arabia and her allies should not
think of attacking Qatar, because they will forever regret doing that. There is
too much hypocrisy being perpetuated in the region. “He that is without sin
among you, let him first cast a stone.”
