Stoking The Fires In The Middle East (Is Saudi Arabia Bullying Qatar?)

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.”  

Law Of Karma At Work?

Almost exactly a year ago in 2011, the Libyan Leader Muammar Qaddafi was brutally murdered by a combined force of NATO and the Benghazi rebels. Many people also lost their lives in during those sad and shameful periods in the history of Libya. Here was someone who was providing virtually everything for his people, then all of a sudden, a group of former Taliban fighters whose freedom he secured from the Americans from the Guantanamo Bay Prison, with a condition that he would make sure they do not engage in any form of terrorist activities. These former Taliban fighter were Libyans and they numbered about two hundred.He then resettled them in the city of Benghazi and made them comfortable. Due to their programming at the Guantanamo Bay Prison, the time was ripe for them to initiate their plans for the overthrow of Qaddafi in 2011. How the rebellion started and the subsequent incidents are now confined to the yet to be written chapters on Libyan and African history. Fast forward to the year 2012, Qaddafi's loyalists were just waiting for their time to punish the perpetrators of the heinous atrocity committed on Libyan soil.Someone makes a short film entitled "Innocence of Muslims" which demeans the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), then the trouble begins in the Arab world starting first with a protest in Cairo, Egypt, then Benghazi. In these two cities, the American Consulate in Benghazi was attacked and the Ambassador and three of his staff were killed. The American Embassy in Cairo was also attacked resulting in the removal of the American flag and some minor casualties. Most western powers condemned both the film and the attacks on the American Diplomatic Missions in the Arab world. Then just a few days ago, Omar Shaaban, the man credited with finding Qaddafi in the sewer was also kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Qaddafi loyalists. Libya has not known peace ever since the overthrow and death of Qaddafi. During Qaddafi's rule, not a single Embassy or Consulate was attacked. Now they are blaming the attacks on Al Qaeda. Coming events truly cast their shadows. I think its payback time and they have sent out a clear statement to all those who condoned and connived to murder Qaddafi that, no matter how long it takes, wherever they hide, their time would surely come and would also face the same music. The US should try and give her diplomacy around the world a new face. These are just the thoughts of an ordinary blogger somewhere on the surface of the earth..