Visiting London today, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced that his nation, along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt, are drawing up a long list of “grievances”which will soon be presented to Qatar, a long-time ally with whom they split a couple of weeks ago.
Jubeir offered no specifics on what the grievances would include, beyond demands to “halt its support for extremism and terrorism,” but he insisted that despite only four nations being involved in drawing up the list, they should treat them as demands being made by the whole world.
Jubeir insisted his country would no longer tolerate Qatar use of “hostile media” and expect to remain a member of the GCC in good standing, saying that Qatar had to give in to the forthcoming demands to make the region “a better place.”
Saudi Arabia had previously issued an ultimatum that included a long list of demands, mostly centered on permanently shutting down al-Jazeera and publicly vowing to never again take any position on foreign policy that was contradicted by the other GCC member nations. The Qataris already rejected that, however, saying they won’t give up their sovereignty simply to end the blockade by a handful of neighbors.
The world or “International Community” should bring this war criminal Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir to the Hague. This A$$ clown speaks and lies for the most brutal human rights abusing regime who commits the most egregious war crimes against Yemen.
Qatar has already made the rather obvious point that if their opponents are only now drawing up a list of greivences, then this whole affair has been a politically motivated attack against Qatar.
After all, should a list of greivences come first? Followed by peaceful attempts at negotiations to try to resolve them? Before moving on to trying to starve people to death and destroy another country’s economy?
Sounds like the prelude to the invasion of Poland.