Qatar is just one big chameleon, isn't it: Oil-rich sheikhdom; friend of the US, Syria and Iran; acquaintance of Israel; philanthropic donor, and now...matchmaker?
Lebanon's feuding leaders on Friday were getting ready to fly to Qatar – the majority on one plane and the opposition on another – in a bid to end the long-running crisis.Upon the request from the Qatari foreign minister, leaders of the ruling March 14 coalition would take one plane, opposition chiefs would take another, while a third would carry journalists and assistants in the hopes that they would return on one jet.
Qatar has also prepared a zaffi team and several kilos of rice, following reports in Ali Hassan Khalil's personal memoirs that he has long fancied Nayla Mouawad, and has asked for her hand in marriage through a Turkish envoy. Qatari officials hope to catch a picture of Mr. Khalil and Mrs. Mouawad together, hand-in-hand, upon their return to Beirut as they disembark the Qatari aircraft.
I, however, say Qatar should probably prepare a fourth aircraft, to carry the body bags after the Lebanon 'dialogue'. :(
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