Qatar did not have nuclear weapons but is economically even stronger than Saudi Arabia, hence refused to be bullied
Please do tell how? I am a follower of Qatari affairs, stats, and the stock market, and it has tanked since 2017 to a degree where they have redacted and omitted a lot of economical statistics and information from their official statistics website following the embargo.
And about this Imran khan affair. As usual, people be talking crap about Saudi Arabia and taking words as facts from the mouths of their
ENEMIES, namely the Muslim brotherhood and their allies, Turkey, Qatar, and Iran, aka the biggest hypocrites on planet earth.
If this is how you form your opinions, then don't blame anyone if they started accusing Pakistan of every crime in existence because they took the words of the Indians as facts and have not given Pakistan ANY benefit of the doubt or at least given them a platform to make their own statements about their on freaking affairs.
And about the people that say that Saudi is the biggest ally of the US and Israel, where does that put Turkey and Qatar, Jordan, Oman?
Turkey who has full relations and military cooperation with Israel. Turkey who for 50 years wanted to join the EU (the crusaders as the brotherhood likes to call them), and is part of Nato.
And the hypocrisy and the ignoring the facts for the sake keeps going on and on and on:
U.S. air bases:
Turkey: Yes. (
Incirlik Air Base)
Qatar: Yes. (
Al Udeid Air Base)
Saudi Arabia: No
Buys/sells or have bought weapons from Israel:
Turkey: Yes.
What Israel had done for Turkey in military corporation:
- Modernization of Turkey's F-4 Phantoms and F-5 aircraft – $900 million.
- Upgrading 170 of Turkey's M60A1 tanks – $687 million.
- Popeye-I and Popeye-II missiles.
- Popeye-II surface-to-air missiles – $150 million.
- 10 Heron UAV - $183 million.
- Arrow anti-ballistic-missiles. (Agreed in principle by Israel; approval by the United States pending.)
- The agreement provided exchange of pilots eight times a year; allowed Israeli pilots to practice "long range flying over mountainous land" in Turkey's Konya firing range; and permitted Turkish pilots to train at Israel's computerized firing range at the Nevatim airfield.[116]
- The two navies conducted maneuvers during Operation Reliant Mermaid (the U.S. also participated) in January 1998."
Iran: Yes.
Iran Contra:
- First arms sales in 1981 (see above)
- 20 August 1985 – 96 TOW anti-tank missiles
- 14 September 1985 – 408 more TOWs
- 24 November 1985 – 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
- 17 February 1986 – 500 TOWs
- 27 February 1986 – 500 TOWs
- 24 May 1986 – 508 TOWs, 240 Hawk spare parts
- 4 August 1986 – More Hawk spares
- 28 October 1986 – 500 TOWs
Saudi Arabia: No
Have or had diplomatic relations with Israel:
Turkey: Yes
And still have one of the best relations with more than 10 flights a day between the two countries, military corporation, and flourishing trade.
Qatar: Yes
Saudi Arabia: No. Never had.
Erdogan declared that Israel and the Jews have the right to Palestine. Erdogan recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in 2016.
"it was announced by the Israeli Airports Authority that in 2013 and 2014 Turkish Airlines flew more passengers to and from Israel than any other foreign airline."
Turkey-Israel naval collaboration, 2009: US Capt. John Moore, Turkish Rear Adm. Ismail Taylan, Israeli Rear Adm. Rom Rutberg
Oman leader: Qaboos w/ Netanyahu
Qatar leader: Hamad w/ Perez
Jordan leader: Abdullah w/ Netanyahu
And yet some have the audacity to consider Erdogan the propagandist the savior of Islam or someone who wants the best for the Ummah.
Saudi Arabia works in silence, it does not participate in these circus shows of blabbermouths who seek votes or seconds terms. So believe what you want and ignore as much facts as you want to make the world consistent with your fairy tales if it makes you sleep better at night, but that doesn't mean that these facts does not exist or that you are shooting yourself in the foot.
