> Also the entire point of Al Jazeera was for Qatar to provide political influence... FWIW it's what Qatar does. They've also been caught the hand in the cooki

> Also the entire point of Al Jazeera was for Qatar to provide political influence... FWIW it's what Qatar does. They've also been caught the hand in the cookie jar bribing EU officials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Kaili https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Kaili She's a MEP and yet went on to defend Qatar as a bastion of democracy (!). Close to a million EUR was found in cash at her apartment: which probably helped defend a country where the official law is the Sharia law as a bastion of democracy. War is ugly but religious extremism is ugly too, especially when it's financed by a shitload of oil. People would do well to wonder who's financing all these "grassroots" movements in the EU and the US defending people who voted in power a terrorist organization who swore by the death of Israel.