Emir of Qatar

So it is official.  I still stick to my post from yesterday: the Emir of Qatar directs all his policies on the basis of his hostility to Saudi Arabia and the Saudi hostility to his rule.  As you know, the Saudis always in indirect negotiations with the Emir insisted that he surrenders power, even to any of his very young sons at the time.  They first insisted that his father returned to power, and when that was not possible, they said that they would accept any alternative but the Emir.  There is such bad blood between the two even during the alliance during the Arab spring.  The anti-Qatari tendencies have been growing in the Saudi media.  The Emir of Qatar was subjected--by his own admission--to internal pressures from the family in the Bush years: they asked him to be more compromising and forthcoming in response to pressures from the Bush-Cheney administration.  The fact that the Emir decided that to ignore his feud with the House of Saud and mount jointly with House of Saud the Arab counter-revolution indicates that there was a plot of some sorts, and that the US was not far behind.  This will make the GCC more agreeable for the US especially that the other members are far less troublesome for the Saudi family and for the US, notwithstanding the Saudi-Omani tensions and even the conflict between UAE and Saudi Arabia, both of which compete in the game of pleasing the US/Israeli alliance.