All well and good, crapflying, but then again it doesn't seem to have worked out for the CX guys...last I heard.
Known facts (or at least it should absolutely have been known) that the rules are set by management in the middle east.
If you didn't know this before...now you do, and not a thing you can do about it.
And further, when you applied, you asked for work, yes?
Now that you actually have to work (gravy train derailed) so there is only one alternative, like it or leave.
Simple as that.
It has been ever thus since aeroplanes were first introduced to the middle eastern folks...and it ain't gonna change anytime soon.
Yes, it was once true that the big bucks were there (MiddleEast) for the taking, but these times have loooog passed.
Like it or not...and apparently most do not.
Just the way it is, and nothing you can do about it.
On the brighter side, perhaps other flying jobs have opened up elsewhere, but suspect that terms and conditions are on the ever-more downward slide.