Thursday, August 23, 2012

Saudi-Qatari conflict

There is a silent and cold but intense war going on in the Arab world now: it is the Saudi-Qatari conflict.  When I asked the Emir of Qatar in 2010 sarcastically: so your conflict with the House of Saud is now resolved?  He laughed and said: not in tens of years, it won't, or words to that effect.  While the two royal families (both obedient servants of US interests in the region) united their ranks after Bahrain and to lead the Arab counter-revolution on behalf of US/Israel, the conflict has not subsided.  The conflict in Arab countries between Ikhwan and Salafites is merely a reflection of the Saudi-Qatari conflict.