It may be useful to tell some
information about the ruling regime in Qatar after the vision became common and
clear at our brother countries of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain… a friend of
mine interested in the Arab affairs in general and that of the Gulf countries
in specific was kind enough to tell me about those information during a long
conversation we had.
Of those information, at the seventies
of the last century, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani – then-crown prince and father
of the current ruler – was called Gaddafi of the Gulf area as he was claiming
to believe in the Arab-national ideology since the sixties and afterwards – like
many others – he adopted the political Islam ideology… maybe due to the heavy
presence of muslim brotherhood in Qatar.
It also happened that Hamad got married
to Sheikha Moza; daughter of Nasser al-Mossnad, the most famous opposition
figure in the history of Qatar… reconciliation was done and Nasser and prominent
figures of his tribe came back to Qatar… with this marriage concluded, the two
parties agreed on common matters that were in the background of their political
vision and ambitions that do not go along with their socio-economic state and
the demographic and geo-political reality of Qatar… it is evident that the coup
of Hamad against his father in 1995 was blessed by Washington and with the main
support of Hamad bin Jassim bin Gabir; later became minister of foreign affairs
and prime minister.
The second piece of information is that
the Qatari-Saudi relations were usually tensioned since senior King Abdel-Aziz
Al Sa’oud considered Qatar – that adopts Wahhabism – an affiliate to Saudi
Arabia… Abdel-Aziz asked the British to include Qatar in the Saudi Kingdom in
1913… demarcation of the borders was done in 1965 and Saudi Arabia considered
that vast areas of its land was cut due to this demarcation… later, Saudi
Arabia regained those areas on the eve of the second Gulf War in January, 1991…
that led to cutting the land territory connecting Qatar to the UAE and limiting
the land borders of Qatar to Saudi Arabia alone… Qatar tried to oust the Saudis
from those areas that Saudi Arabia regained back in what was known as the
borderline Al-Khofous territory incident in 1992… but the Qataris failed.
At the end of 1995, there was a coup
attempt to bring the father Khalifa to power once again but the attempt was no
success… Hamad accused Saudi Arabia of involvement in that attempt and dropped
the nationality of all members of “Al Morra” tribe which he accused of
participating in such coup attempt and expelled them out to the Saudi Arabia…
since then, the Qatari regime considered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a main
threat to its security and safety… and so, in 2003, Hamad the father welcomed
the accommodation of the American troops and United States Central Command in
the two bases of Al-‘Odaid and as-Silya after their agreement to stay in the
air-base of Emir Sultan in the Kingdom came to an end… in the same context, the
father made ties with Israel in order to reinforce his relation with
Washington.
And since every political and economic
system requires an ethical cover to promote its ideology, especially if that
cover was religious, muslim brotherhood became the important ally for the
Qatari regime… an ally that provides the religious cover for the Qatari
policies and behaviors including the relations with Israel and also the
presence of American military bases over the Qatari land.
The third piece of information has to do
with Al-Jazeera channel… as it was an Israeli idea that was included in the
project of Shimon Perez of the “New Middle East”… according to authenticated
information, such channel was first proposed to Jordan to host along with
providing it with the funding needed to contribute to supporting the ailing
economy of Jordan but King Hussein apologized because it was far beyond the
capacity of his country… then it was proposed to Qatar which welcomed it
provided that the funding should be independent especially that the offer came
during the hottest times of its disputes with Saudi Arabia.
With the escalating boom in oil and gas
prices in 2000, Qatar found itself swimming in an ocean of wealth enough to
fulfill the capacity to buy anything and everything… that thing was not done
away from the administration of George W. Bush that planned to spread the
creative chaos… Al-Jazeera channel was ready media wise along with the huge
financial readiness… also, muslim brotherhood through their international organization
was a main tool in such mission.
The plan of the Big Middle East –
according to the term Condoleezza Rice used – became the umbrella uniting Qatar
with muslim brotherhood beneath… and so, if the Americans let go of this plan
after the Israeli consent, then the role of Qatar and muslim brotherhood will
end… and now comes the key question: will Israel agree to stop the plan aiming
at fragmenting the region before fulfilling its whole set of targets,
especially that Egypt is still standing and rising?
A last piece of information that is an
almost true leakage says that Hamad; father of Tamim, is still supervising himself
the foreign policy of Qatar, Al-Jazeera and the newspapers and study centres
that Azmi Beshara and Waddah Khanfar; ex-manager of Al-Jazeera are establishing…
of the examples of those media outlets, the newspaper of Al-Arabi Al-Gadid,
Huffington Post Arabia, Middle East Eye with David Hearst as its
editor-in-chief… and others.
So, we are standing against a map full
of security, media and political entanglements… a map complicated on the Qatari
tribal level as disputes are old and still recurring… also against unlimited
amounts of money under the control of the Qatari rulers… for this reason, the
stronger the complications and entanglements, the stronger the fall down if it took
place… such fall will lead to noticeable changes and maybe root ones in the
course of actions in the enflaming arcs of fire in the Arab land… the northern
arc extending from Iraq to Syria and Lebanon… the southern arc extending in
Yemen and Soudan… and the western one extending in Libya and Tunisia… as wherever
we look, we see the Qatari fingers messing either directly or indirectly.
I have been and still am trying to
figure out an answer for a question asking: why has a country like Qatar, with
its geo-political situation, limited demographic composition and fragile social
structure, adopted such orientation?... was behind this an advice from some
experts, including some Egyptian names that worked in consulting positions
inside the Qatari royal court at the end of the last century?
The essence of this advice is that the
only way for Qatar to continue is to adopt the Israeli model as an example… to
be a strong dagger stabbed in the back of strong neighbors… and this dagger
shall be in the hands of allies like the US and Israel… but maybe the decisive
paradox is that this “dagger” thought it has the right to snatch whatever it
wants from above the table or even turn the whole table upside down… forgetting
that there is eventually a hand holding it… and once this hand gets this dagger
out, the dagger becomes nothing but a worthless piece of junk.
I believe the answer to the question
became clear now.
Translated into English by: Dalia
Elnaggar
This article was
published in Al Ahram newspaper on June 8, 2017.
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original article, go to:
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