[the_other_guy]

kinda funny that UAE and Saudi Arabia have always had blatant human rights abuses including funding terrorism in places like Syria but nobody raise a brow until they isolated Qatar roughly 2 years ago, then suddenly the abuses are appearing out of nowhere and ironically Qatar is is the only country that's worse than both of them. Also never underestimate Qatar's sleeping Islamist cells pretending to be liberals and even SJWs in the major news media nowadays

[aliswe]

It's interesting that you mention that last bit. As a matter of fact, it's got a lot to do with left and right political ideology here.

Possibly inflammatory post coming your way ...

Qatar, Turkey, Iran, Syria (at least historically, maybe not so much with the current Al-Asad), old Libya (Qaddafi) are very leftist, and thus get along better with left-ish media and left-leaning governments like France and Canada. Also the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir, even ISIS is (extremely) leftist and there are allegiances and/or sentiments shared between all these.

Saudi Arabia, UAE, are very rightist. And thus they get along better with USA, Russia and also even Israel.

[sn41]

Also the proxy war between UAE+Saudi on one side against Iran that is going on Yemen. Yemenis are poor, and their nation is being ruined. This reminds me of Eurasia vs Eastasia in far-off Malabar in George Orwell's 1984. Still no great condemnation from world leaders.