i may prefer the qatari vision over the saudi one, but al jazeera is state propaganda, and speaks for nobody besides the qatari ruling class.

the idea that it's some kind of genuine voice of the arab street is laughable.

but, more poignantly, it points to the ideological errors that are taking over the contemporary left, which is being tricked by identity politics into latching on to a mouthpiece for an aspect of the ruling petrostate. it is placing religious and ethnic identity ahead of a coherent class analysis. and, that can never be anything besides deeply reactionary.

as a consequence, you have these people out there running around spewing this turko-qatari propaganda as some kind of indigenous narrative.

these people should be treated as laughingstocks.

they're useful idiots.