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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSaudi Arabia Demands Qatar Shut Down Al Jazeera
What is really driving the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar in which Trump has sided with Saudi Arabia? Censorship. Are you surprised?
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/saudi-arabia-demands-qatar-shut-down-al-jazeera/
Saudi Arabia and other Arab states that have severed ties with Qatar issued a list of severe demands to end the worst regional diplomatic crisis in years, telling their Persian Gulf neighbor to close state broadcaster Al Jazeera, curb ties with Iran and end Turkeys military presence on its soil .The government of Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has 10 days to accept the demands, which include paying reparations and providing information on all opposition groups it has supported, the document says, without specifying what penalties the Saudi-led group will impose if Qatar fails to comply.
And there you have it. Does Saudi Arabia really care about Qatars tightrope walk relationship with Iran, which it shares a gigantic gas field with? Or the 200 Turkish troops in Qatar? Or its ties to Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood?
Well, sure, they care. But Qatar is just pursuing standard small-country diplomacy, trying to balance its alliances so it doesnt become a client state of the local hegemon. Its hardly a threat to Saudi Arabia.
But Al Jazeera is, because it provides a view of the outside world to ordinary Saudi citizens thats not controlled by the Ministry of Keeping Everyone In Line. Thats really the only thing Qatar does thats truly threatening.
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Saudi Arabia Demands Qatar Shut Down Al Jazeera (Original Post)
TomCADem
Jun 2017
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secondwind
(16,903 posts)1. I love Al-Jazeera. K&R
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)2. And now the root of the issue. Saud hates free press almost as much as cheeto
dhill926
(16,373 posts)3. who are they to say this shit.....
fuck 'em. We are all Qatarians..(yeah whatever haha)...now...
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)4. The government of Saudi Arabia
represents almost everything that GOPers admire.
F*ck the Saudi government! But there are Saudis who detest that government every bit as much as we here detest Trump!
I stand with Qatar!
Cha
(297,818 posts)5. Well said, Blue!
Mahalo