Marwan kindly translated this article from Al-Akhbar: "Thank You Qatar!
Jawad Nadeem Adra
Thanks to Al-Jazeera, who discovered the ills of the Arab
world from the “roaring ocean” to the Levant and who , of course, distanced
itself from the “rebelling Gulf “. And thanks for “discovering” the Arab
Afghans, the places of bin Laden and the Muslims of the Philippines, the states
of Yugoslavia, and for “distancing” itself from the gas of Qatar and all of
Qatar. Thank you Qatar for the $ 300 million gift to Lebanon after the July 2006
war; it is a debt that cannot be repaid with banners of the resistance “Thanks
Qatar”.
Thanks Qatar for $ 700 million to Cornell University only,
without the cost of buildings, etc., to establish a medical college in Doha, and
the number of its students may not exceed 270 at most. Thanks Qatar for 80
billion dollars or more that will be paid “to host” the Football World Cup in
2022. Thanks Qatar for the scolding that the Arab peoples waited so long for, to
the Minister of “million martyrs revolution”, the Algerian, who was not
intimidated by France in all its glory, but trembled in fear of Qatar. Thanks
Qatar for the “mature leadership”, which placed Egypt, “Mother of the World”, in
its natural place behind Qatar to receive orders. Thanks Qatar for facing up to
Erdoğan in order to create a balance between the Arab world and Turkey, so that
Qatar’s weight would be sufficient to limit the “Ottoman
expansion”.
Thanks Qatar for cutting ties with the trade office, which
the millions of Al-Jazeera followers didn’t know existed, to protest the Israeli
siege of Gaza. Thanks Al-Jazeera for its “objective” handling of this matter.
And thanks also to the Arab League and its offices for working day and night to
boycott Israel!
Thanks Qatar for hosting Shimon Peres and Tzipi Livni in the
same period when it “stood” “with” the resistance against Israel. Thanks Qatar
for innovative planning, because the Arab peoples did not realize that
Al-Jazeera, while attacking Saudi Arabia, for hosting U.S. military bases, was
working according to a “creative” plan which resulted in “hosting” American
weapons and soldiers at the Khor-Al-Udaid equipped base, at Qatar’s expense of
course, complying with the highest American standards, under the pretext of
protecting “the nation of Qatar” from Iran and Saudi Arabia. And so was the
“colonizer” invited, most welcomed, without bothering to occupy or spend any
money, but was paid to occupy! And it is from this base that the air attacks on
Iraq were launched.
Thank you Qatar for your leadership of the Arab world, you
are the beating heart of Arabism, your are its brains and muscles; Libya has
freed, Tunisia became a democracy, and Mubarak is in prison as a result of your
tremendous efforts. You are sweet syrup, your are our towing engine, and we are
behind you hauled and fascinated. Thanks Qatar and Al-Jazeera for not
responding to Obama when he said, “Al-Jazeera, owned by one man, is calling for
democracy in the Arab world, except in Qatar”. Thanks Qatar for the siege of
Syria, and tomorrow (God protect us from tomorrow) of Israel.
Please Qatar, free the way for millions of Arabs and hundreds
of thousands of your workers to gain Qatari citizenship, so that they shout and
forever: Thank you Qatar, and long live Qatar!
For all of this and for thousands of other things that are or
are not said, we must all repeat: Thank you Qatar."
