Arab Days
of Shame
By
Ghassan Kadi
March 07, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- "The
Saker"
- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has
finally had it its way. A meeting held last month of
GCC and other Arab Foreign Ministers has condemned
Iran for the attack on the Saudi Embassy incident,
and the Lebanese Foreign Minister Basil; from the 8th
of March Coalition pro-Hezbollah camp, abstained
from voting. As a result, Lebanon was punished by
Saudi Arabia as the latter decided to renege on the
$4bn aid promise to the Lebanese Army and Internal
Security.
And then
just a few weeks later, the Arab Interior Ministers
convened in Tunis and declared Lebanon’s Hezbollah a
terror organization (1&2). Lebanon’s Interior
Minister Mashnouk, a 14th of March Hariri
man, also abstained from voting.
The
debauched Saudi royals, the same lazy criminals who
die from obesity and self-inflicted diabetes whilst
they are starving and bombing Yemen, the same people
who poured billions upon billions of dollars to kill
Syrians in an attempt to create an Islamic state in
lieu of its secular government, that scourge of a
family that rules with an iron fist wreaking havoc
and creating wars between Arabs and Muslims and
never once fired a single bullet at Israel, they
actually had the audacity to call the shots and had
Hezbollah declared as a terrorist organization.
Strange days indeed.
What is of
significance here is the almost utter silence about
this development in Western media. Try to Google
this milestone event using any key words, and you
will not find any references in the well-established
highly-read mainstream Western news agencies.
Interesting indeed.
What is
even more interesting here as an observer is that
quite often Western media go abuzz with what they
believe is taking the Arab World by storm, but in
reality, no one in the Arab World would be talking
about it or least concerned.
The issues
of Saudi military land intervention in Syria and
their alleged ownership of nuclear weapons for
example, are hardly ever discussed in the Levant and
the whole Middle East. They are seen as some kind of
bad-taste jokes. Such topics seem to only make news
headlines in the West.
Back to the
Tunis decision. The Arab states that did not vote in
favour of the motion are Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria
and Iraq. I wonder if the readers are missing
something here….Palestine,
as represented by Abbas’s Palestinian Authority
(PA), has in fact voted for declaring Hezbollah as a
terror organization.
Whilst
Hamas is not acknowledged as a representative of the
Palestinian people, Ismail Haniyye, who is entirely
in Qatar’s pocket, would probably also vote in
favour had he been asked to vote. Mahmoud Zahhar, a
prominent Hamas leader, has however condemned the
decision. This is not surprising given that Zahar
went against his rank when Hamas leaders went
cahoots with Qatar against Syria. Zahhar had always
been the voice of reason in Hamas. The Palestinian
Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and the PFLP General Command
have also condemned the decision, but Mahmoud Abbas
is quite silent. He is probably feeling too sheepish
to make any comments. Even if his heart is with
Hezbollah, he cannot go against the Saudi dictates.
The
Palestinian position is not taking keen observers by
surprise. After all, earlier on, Hezbollah pioneered
the tunnel technology and passed on the information
to Hamas leaders in order to help with their fight
against the Israelis in Gaza. When the “War On
Syria” started and Hamas decided to align itself
with Qatar against Syria and her people, Hamas
passed on this technology to the terrorists. All the
tunnels around greater Damascus, and especially in
the Jobar region, were built by technology and
information that was passed on to the terrorists by
Hamas. So for Hamas a would-be vote against
Hezbollah is not impossible to imagine.
Hezbollah
is receiving quite a bit of support from progressive
Arab parties, especially, and whilst its officials
made quite a few verbal responses to the Saudis, it
seems that Hezbollah is not trying to escalate the
situation with the PA. In an Arabic article
published on Al-Manar of the 3rd of March
2016 (3) and titled: “The Palestinian Authority And
The “Terrorist” Decision Against Hezbollah), the
author (Islam Al-Rawashda) opens his article by
saying that it is not surprising to see the Saudis
go after Hezbollah. In his next paragraph however,
he is questioning how did the PA allow itself to
join the “gang” and endorsed the decision against
Hezbollah. Isn’t Hezbollah engaged in fighting
Israel? Did it not liberate Arab land from
occupation? Does is not support Palestine? These are
the kind of questions he asked. But the official
Hezbollah spokespeople seem to unwilling to engage
in making anti-PA statements. Clearly, they don’t
want to give their adversaries more ammunition and
do not want to be seen standing against
Palestinians; not even their corrupt pro-Saudi
authority.
The schism
inside the Arab World is reaching unprecedented
levels. The pro-Western camp represented by Saudi
Arabia and its followers has stooped to levels
previously seen as unimaginable.
Even as
Saudi Arabia is down on its knees financially,
bogged down in a war it cannot win in Yemen and
losing all control over the “War On Syria”, it still
has a few billions stashed here and there to draw
from and use to continue to buy friends.
And whilst
it continues to spend billions on its terror
campaigns and on destabilizing the region, whilst it
is supporting all the fundamentalist Madrasas all
over the globe, it withheld its promised gift to the
Lebanese Army under the pretext that the Lebanese
Government and Lebanese Army have become tools in
the hand of Hezbollah and Iran.
As the Arab
Saudi camp is becoming more audacious, audacious
enough for the PA to vote against Hezbollah; the
only army that disturbs Israel’s security, the only
Arab organization that has taken back land from
Israel militarily, the only Arab army that has
actually threatened the depth of Israel, then no one
should expect any good from other Arab pro-Saudi
states that are distant geographically from
Palestine. If the Palestinians themselves do not
know who their enemies and friends are in standing
up against Israel, why should the Moroccans?
And if the
Palestinian people did not like what their
government has done, why did they not take to the
streets in protest? There are some reports of minor
dissent, but nothing serious.
There is
one word to describe the Palestinian reaction, and
the word is “disgusting”, but in this literary
context, I shall stick to the word “appalling”.
If we wind
the clock back a bit, just a few years earlier, we
can clearly remember how both the PA and Hamas have
sided against the Syrian government. Here we ought
to remember that had it not been for the Syrian
government and its support to the different
Palestinian organizations in the 1970’s onwards,
they would have vanished. After all, the official
Hamas HQ was actually in Damascus for many years,
and it was in Syria where Khaled Mashaal operated
until he moved to the Five Star Hotels of Qatar and
Istanbul.
Palestinians have a great cause, but for a major
part, their leaders have been nothing but rascals,
ungrateful rascals. And how can we forget what
happened to Lebanon?
It was
because virtually half of the Lebanese have
supported the Palestinian cause that the already
existing political/religious division in Lebanon
expanded and took the country to Civil War in 1975.
The Palestinians played a huge part in pouring oil
over fire, and their only objectives were what they
could get out of it, and did not give a damn about
the destruction that was inflicted upon Lebanon as a
result.
And the
whole breakdown between Arafat and Assad father in
1976 onwards was based on Arafat’s insistence on the
so-called “Palestinian Decision”. Assad tried in
vain to convince him that the Arab-Israeli conflict
is much bigger than what the Palestinians can
handle. He tried to convince him that this matter is
as important for Syria as it is for Palestine. He
reminded him that Palestine is the southern region
of Syria, but to no avail. Arafat wanted to be the
master of his decisions even if this screwed up the
entire Arab World around him.
Half a
century or so later, Palestinian leaders are not so
much as dogmatic and indoctrinated as Arafat was.
They are simply up for sale. The PA leaders have
grown to love Saudi and other oil money, and Hamas
leaders are up for sale and rent by any Sunni Muslim
money. There is no difference between the two.
But as the
Arab Saudi camp continues to stoop lower and lower,
the resistance camp is growing more organized, more
powerful, more successful and closer to victory.
Which day
in history has marked the biggest day of shame for
the Arabs? Arguably, it has always been said that
Arab states reached their lowest point in history on
June the 5th 1967 during the Six-Days
War. The 3rd of March 2016 decree of the
Arab interior ministers in Tunis is by far a much
lower point, and one wonders if they are poised to
stoop even lower. Shame on them.
1.
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/889141
2.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160303/1035689377/arab-states-hezbollah-terrorist-organization.html
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3.
http://www.manar.com/page-29251-ar.html |