Saudi and Qatar don’t like each other much. They almost came to war a few years ago, and the main contention other than disputed borders, is of course Al-Jazeera and the Israeli trade office in Doha on one side, the other is Qatar accusing Saudi of engineering a failed coup in 1996. So its time …

so much so that you would expect to get retirement benefits (arabic), in Bahrain that is. and here is silly me thinking all along that they’ve entered the public life simply to serve the public without any ulterior motives, nor as a road to personal enrichment. Now they want the government to treat their jobs …

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