There’s a cutting-off-the-nose-to-spite-the face aspect to a
Saudi plan to turn Qatar into an island by digging a 60-kilometre
ocean channel through the two countries’ land border that would accommodate
a nuclear waste heap as well as a military base.
If implemented, the channel would signal the kingdom’s
belief that relations between the world’s only two Wahhabi states will not any
time soon return to the projection of Gulf brotherhood that was the dominant
theme prior to the United Arab Emirates-Saudi-led imposition in June of last
year of a diplomatic and economic boycott of Qatar.
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