[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.