Originally Posted by BEYFlyer
I don't know sadiqhassan... I still feel that Emirates gets a few favors every now and then and a couple of "lets look the other way"... IMHO, I believe that the rivalry between the emirate of Dubai and Abu Dhabi is so "vicious" that I honestly cannot believe that the royal family of each emirate is not somehow involved... Let's see what happens when the oil runs out in a few years.
Abu Dhabi's oil is not running out in a few years, at least not in the next 10-20 unless they radically increase extraction/production. Dubai's oil is another matter entirely, but it never had anywhere as much as Abu Dhabi does.
The dynamics of intra-UAE politics is very interesting. Then again it's "me against my brother; my brother and I against my cousin; my brother, my cousin and I against the tribe; my brother, my cousin, my tribe and I against the other tribes; my brother, my cousin, my tribe, the other tribes and I against the outsiders." And so on.