Qatar…What if ?

When a country has caused so many problems, harbored terrorists and funded others, you expect that when its being told it will be held accountable for the losses of lives as a consequence to its acts, it will at least avoid more losses. But when it arrogantly puts the lives of hundreds of others at risk, you realize that this country is not prepared to acknowledge its mistakes that I will refer to as crimes, yet it continues to act as a threat to its neighbors.

Qatar this week intercepted UAE flights to Bahrain with two warplanes, an act that cannot be justified since the UAE aircraft had abided to all the international aviation standards.

And I could just imagine how the passengers on that flight felt when they saw these interceptions and what they may have led to.

Passengers airlines being intercepted by Mirage warplanes!!

Such hostile acts that endanger the lives of hundreds of civilians can never be justified and Qatar needs to seriously consider its past acts that has already torn apart its brotherly relations with its closest nieghbours. Its intervention in other countries affairs in an attempt to be a leader in the region obviously backfired and Qatar has been labelled as a terrorist harboring country.

In simple analysis, when Qatar funded the Houthis, terrorist cells and acts of crime and sabotage in Bahrain with a direct interference in our sovereignty and the sovereignty of other states including Egypt and Libya, that led to the deaths of hundreds through all the wars it triggered, Qatar’s intentions towards its neighbors became loud and quite clear.

Terrorist cells funded by Qatar succeeded in taking the lives of many innocent people who were either protecting their country or their neighbors. The terrorist acts in Bahrain did not just cost the lives of Bahraini citizens but also UAE soldiers who were serving in Bahrain and protecting us.

Can these atrocities just be deleted from our minds and history. Of course not.

Can deaths resulted by its support to the Houthis and Muslim brotherhood in neighboring states be forgotten, forgiven and deleted.

Of course not.

Can the fact that Qatar has threatened the stability of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt be forgotten? Of course not, especially when the display of its muscles continues through intercepting civilian aircrafts.

Therefore, the last thing Doha needs is an accident that can cause the lives of civilians onboard a commercial flight.

The four boycott states have repeatedly denied the possibility of military intervention in Doha and this surely reflects their wisdom and patience but can what happened this week be viewed as a military intervention from Doha.

What we today ask ourselves is: What is next?