Qatar, or the (foot)ball of the hypocrites

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I heard this morning an interesting talk show at the radio : should the 2022 world soccer championship may still take place in Qatar ? A few days ago, Saudi Arabia followed by a few Arabic countries around suddenly realized that Qatari camels had a hump and it decided them to tell that Qatar was a terrorist state, threatening it of sanctions. When USA and several European countries having good relations with the Qatar were trying to put out the fire, the great Donald Trump, forgetting that the US has a large military airbase in Qatar, twitted «So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding.. ..extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!» Saudi Arabia telling that Qatar supports terrorism, «it is the hospital making fun of the infirmary» like we say in French. There is no doubt, Saudian camels have also a hump. For example, speaking of soccer, yesterday Saudi players playing a soccer match in Adelaide, have snubbed a minute of silence for the victims of the last London attack before the match. How could they think that this minute was intended to be observed only by Australian players ? If there is a country that will never welcome a refugee fleeing ISIS, it will be Saudi Arabia. If some Arabic countries are quarelling Qatar, it is because Qatar has developped since a few years its own foreign policy and does not support anymore the policy followed by Saudi Arabia and its neighbors. I will not tell that Qatar does not support terrorism, it does, like any wahhabist country does, including Saudi Arabia, but the roots of the quarel have nothing to do with supporting or not supporting terrorism. Coming back to the 2022 world soccer championship, there are 2 options : - to boycott the championship because it is organized in a country supporting terrorism. That would be hypocritical, because Qatar is not the only terrorist country in this area ; - or to continue to be hypocrite our usual way towards these countries of the Gulf which are at the source of the Muslim terrorism in the world and to not boycott it. It offers at least 1 advantage : there would probably be no terrorist attack during this championship in Qatar. Like you see, boycott or not boycott, we would be hypocrites. When it comes to sport and politics, some decisions seem obvious. I am not sure that it is so obvious to boycott Qatar today than it was obvious to boycott South Africa in the 1970’s when it was the last country in the world following an apartheid policy. Your opinion ?