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2021-01-24 Arabia
Qatar: Fast-track reconciliation
[AlAhram] The Saudi announcement of opening its embassy in Doha tied the knot for a three and half years of total boycott

The details of the reconciliation agreement between Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and its neighbours, signed at Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit two weeks ago, still haven’t been made public. But Riyadh is fast-tracking the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Doha.

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Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan announced this week that the Saudi Embassy in Doha will soon be reopened. At a presser with his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi, in Riyadh, Bin Farhan told journalists that the issue was "just a matter of logistics". He added that his country "will restore full diplomatic relations with Qatar". Bin Farhan confirmed: "Our embassy will be reopened in Doha within days of completing the necessary procedures."

That step follows on the heels of the end of a boycott by three of its Gulf neighbours, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain as well as Egypt (making up a kind of Quartet) during a summit in Saudi al-Ula on 5 January.

After the summit, Saudi Arabia opened its land border — the only land corridor for Qatar - and allowed Qatari flights in its airspace. All these steps were followed by the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain. It is not clear yet when the rest of the Quartet will follow Saudi Arabia in establishing full diplomatic relations with Doha.

In June 2017, the four countries severed all relations with Qatar, accusing the tiny, rich state of interference in their internal affairs, supporting and financing terror groups including the Moslem Brüderbund, and maintaining close ties with Iran. Doha vehemently denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
saying the boycott undermined its illusory sovereignty.

Kuwait, which has been mediating between Qatar and the Quartet over the last three year, is upbeat about the rapid healing of the rift, despite the fact that none of the demands of the boycotting countries appears to have been followed, except for putting a stop to media campaigns.

A Kuwaiti analyst told al- Ahram Weekly that full diplomatic relations between Qatar and the four countries will be restored soon. "Trade and investment between Gulf neighbours will kick off in full swing, for the good of the people of the whole region", he said. As for the demands by the Quartet, he said that principles were agreed and details are being finalised through bilateral discussions.

For its part Qatar stressed that the reconciliation is not going to affect its relations with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
or The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
Another Gulf commentator was sceptical about the rift healing too soon, noting that ordinary people were fed a lot of negative propaganda for three years. He stressed that the fissures went deep to popular levels: "social media played a nasty role with trolls on all sides going far in spreading accusations and insults using the foulest words sometimes against leaders or elders and their families".

Deep mistrust will not go away so soon, especially for those vehemently opposing political Islam like the UAE and sympathisers with Moslem Brüderbund like Qatar. As a Western analyst puts it, Saudi Arabia is used to shifts towards the Brotherhood and other Islamists. He notes that Riyadh "knew that the Brotherhood Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
representative (Islah) was being supported by Qatar to sabotage Saudi efforts to rein in the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels.

But, to shore up the legitimate government which lacks popular support, Riyadh included the Brotherhood-affiliated Islah in the government." He also referred to the time when Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf countries were supporting Islamist groups in Syria during the heyday of Gulf-Turkey relations.

A Dubai-based source downplayed the popular rift that deepened during the boycott and suggested that trade and economic relations will help overcome this. He also noted that the tribal nature of Gulf societies means that many families spread in many countries, and opening borders will mean these families will come together again and bury previous tensions.

On trade, a Gulf source confirmed that Saudi goods never stopped completely going to Qatar during the boycott — in many cases through re-export via Turkey. He claims that even with the "popular" Gulf boycott of Turkey in recent months, economic relations have not been dented.

Turkey is in fact the main party cautiously hopeful that the acceleration in normalising Saudi-Qatari relations will mean an opening for Turkey to come back to the Gulf, ending its isolation.

But Ankara is still waiting for any overture, especially from the UAE and Egypt. Both countries are not at ease with Turkey’s interference in the region and its support of terrorist groups.

Though the main conclusion is that Saudi Arabia is trying to form a wide "necessity alliance" to deal with the Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
administration — especially on the issue of Iran — that alliance might not be solid enough and may end up replaying the previous accommodation of fringe groups like the Moslem Brüderbund, which resulted in failed policy choices, as the Western analyst suggested.

With leaks implying that the Biden team have already started secret contacts with Iran, Qatar might be more informed about the anticipated agreement between Washington and Teheran than the Saudis. That in itself will complicate a speedy reconciliation between Riyadh and Doha.
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