Well Done!

Watching today's regional politics could drive you to the verge of pulling your hair, but it could still be amuzing and perhaps even amazing...

The past two weeks were sad to be honest, because of the situation in Lebanon. Lebanon, is the most beautiful Arab country in so many ways. If you go and ask any Arab this question:
- "What is beautiful about Lebanon?"

The answers would come in accordance with the person's background. Some would say its poets, some would say its natural beauty, others would say its music, while others would say its apples if they didn't know anything else about Lebanon!

All in all, it is the most beautiful country in the Arab Middle East. There is no Arab who does not have a part of his or her heart with Lebanon for one or more of the above reasons; thus the sadness of what happened recently in Lebanon.

Of course, the escalation that went on for a long time (from both sides) until it reached the latest point which was about to be "the point of no return" (God forbid), had made it obvious that there were some regional interferences, despite the statements of neutrality coming from this country or that.

I don't want to discuss the past, or the present, except one point.

Someone who is neutral might have expected that countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran should have acted more maturally so to speak, and moved at their allies there to stop and escalation and do the very best in order to calm things down, but they didn't. Both countries in fact, have proven that they were totally immature, and that they wanted to do the same thing they did in Iraq, and not to do the same thing they did in Iraq at the same time! And the result was a mess.

With the situation being like this, there was a despirate need that someone should rise to the occasion and stop what was going on.

Qatar came.

Although i have many notes to make regarding Qatar, which has a strange policy (inviting Hamas leaders one day, then inviting Tzipi Livni the other day!; being home to Al-Jazeera, as well as two huge US bases right next door!!), but despite all that, I really respected Qatar for its role in Lebanon this time in difusing the bomb that might have blown up that beautiful country apart for the benefit of regional powers, and for the loss of all the Lebanese people.

Qatar had proven this time that it is a mature country despite its tiny size, while the big ones were childish.

At the end of the day, an agreement was reached, and we hope it works permanently.
And at the end of the day, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt and Syria came out with an ashful face. Qatar had a shining clean face. Something which makes me say: Well done, Qatar!