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In an exclusive interview with Qods News Agency about the possibility of reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Qatar and other regional matters, Canadian writer and journalist specializing in the Middle East affairs, Eric Walberg said it shows that Saudi rulers are applying more realistic approaches.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“My first reaction is that making peace is always better than confrontation. Muhammad Bin Salman's farcical boycotting of Qatar will end. That is good and it shows some realism entering Saudi minds," Walberg said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“Muhammad Bin Salman is in retreat after his war crimes in Yemen,” he stressed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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 Talking about the way of media coverage on this matter, called it “farcical” and said: Reports are “mentioning 'certain progress achieved more than a year ago' and 'Qatar and Saudi Arabia are close to striking a preliminary agreement to end the dispute', politely omitting any concrete information about the differences, which are clear and important.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“Qatar refuses to follow Saudi and the UAE (i.e., US) hegemony in the region, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas as the real forces of Muslims in the region. The empty words are necessary to avoid embarrassing the Saudis,” he added.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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He also talked about the position of Turkey, predicting that “Turkey becoming a close ally of Saudi Arabia or the UAE” would not happen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“Turkey has been a good ally of Iran so far, and though their relations in Syria have been antithetical (due to the Kurdish obsession of turkey), I certainly hope that Turkey does not turn away from Iran and Russia,” the Canadian political expert asserted <\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Walberg noted that: “the situation in the Middle East has only become more complex and dangerous under Trump, Erdogan, and Netanyahu. We can only hope that reason triumphs in the face of perfidy and sectarianism.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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