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The rejection of the Palestinian draft resolution by the Arab League was not a self-inflicted coup de grace, but rather the final nail in its coffin; the league has been clinically dead for many years. It is revived every time it is ordered by its master in the White House, as happened during the term of US President George Bush Sr. after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The Arab countries met overnight and agreed, like never before and never since, to do what was asked of them immediately. They did not meet when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and 2006, or when it repeatedly attacked and bombed the Gaza Strip; Israel even bombed Gaza the night the League held its recent shameful meeting.
Nor was the Arab League fazed by the brutal massacres committed by Israel against the Palestinians. It has turned a blind eye to the ongoing construction of illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian land, as well as Israel’s unjust siege of the Gaza Strip and the deliberate deprivation of its people. Furthermore, he has done nothing about the Judaization of Jerusalem and was not moved by the fact that Israel built tunnels under the Al-Aqsa mosque, which endangered its foundations. He has also sat and watched as Israeli planes have penetrated Syrian airspace since 2011 causing death and destruction; it also flew over Lebanon; and even attacking sites on the Iraqi border.
The Arab League could not prevent the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq or even challenge it, and Iraq was lost before its eyes. The League was also not present in Sudan and made no serious effort to stop the escalation of the Sudanese crisis and the eventual division of an Arab country into two rival states.
The list of the League’s absenteeism at crisis points affecting its members is long: the brutal massacres of Russian forces in Syria, for example, and Moscow’s scorched earth policy; The coalition invasion of Yemen, which is destroying the country and creating the world’s “worst humanitarian catastrophe,” is led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which drive the Arab League (so no wonder there) ; and the blockade of Qatar by the League’s member states, again led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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What is happening in Yemen and Qatar is a mockery of the League’s claim to exist for the purpose of “improving coordination among its members on matters of common interest” and the founders’ renouncing violence as a means of resolving disputes. between members. While the Arab League is pleased to allow the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize relations with Israel without sanction or even condemnation, it ignores the fact that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have invaded one member state and are besieging another.
In fact, the Arab League has never been known to be effective on any Arab issue. It has never resolved any conflict between Arab countries, but has tended to make matters worse; Qatar’s blockade since 2017 is a glaring example. It has adopted the policies of the axis that controls it, in particular the counterrevolutionary axis headed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; they have the wealth to control the organization and its decision-making process. The standards have changed and the focus has deviated from the historical principles and constants of the Arab League. The term “Zionist enemy” has been removed from their lexicon, so there is no condemnation of the Israeli attacks.
Despite such ineffectiveness and ineffectiveness, theoretically speaking, the League remains a place of unity for the Arab countries and a living expression of the Arab conscience. The Palestinian cause was once its strongest pillar and the reason it remained alive for so many years, before it was assassinated by the Arab Zionists who have taken control. Today, it is a symbol of Arab degradation and should be called the Israeli League.
The Arab League has never been for the Arab people, but for the regimes that govern them. It was established a couple of years after British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons in February 1943 that the government “shows sympathetic consideration to all actions among Arabs that aim to achieve its economic, cultural and political unity “. An earlier speech had sought to keep Arab governments on Britain’s side during World War II by offering support to strengthen their cultural, economic and political ties.
As has been the British tactic for centuries, divide and rule was applied by appealing to the ethnic rather than religious instincts of the Arabs, thus fragmenting the Muslims. Ummah. The promises of complete independence and the right to self-determination evaporated once the war was won.
Such “sympathy” for Eden differed from that of his predecessor Arthur Balfour, but they served the same purpose. Balfour helped establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, while Eden helped separate the Arabs from their Muslim identity. Therefore, the Palestinian cause was lost almost immediately because it is not just an Arab cause because of the Islamic sanctities in occupied Palestine, mainly the Al-Aqsa Mosque with its great importance to Muslims around the world.
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Behind all this, of course, is the fact that Israel was created to serve Western interests. The stale state was a wedge driven into the body of the Muslim world to be protected by the Arab states ripped from their Muslim background and also created and developed to serve the western crusader. In return, the latter promised to preserve the thrones of the ruling families.
US President Donald Trump is benefiting from the seeds sown by Britain so many years ago. The UAE and Bahrain have been seen following his orders and normalizing with the Zionist occupation at the time determined by him, before the presidential elections, so that he will win the votes of the right-wing evangelical Zionists who form the bulk of the pro Lobby of Israel in America.
Looking at how the British work and comparing them to Trump, we see that he is more transparent in what he says and does, and that this exposes the Zionist Arab states for who they are. Britain, meanwhile, continues to operate more insidiously behind diplomatic words so that its agents are not so blatantly exposed. Trump lacks such diplomatic skills, which sets him apart from other US presidents and exposes friend and foe alike. What you see is what you get, and Trump makes sure we see everything. With their fig leaves removed, these Arab Zionists now realize that the protection of their thrones does not come without a price to pay; Trump has said this to King Salman of Saudi Arabia several times. When Trump told Bahrain’s foreign minister (and he was wrong twice in the process) to salute the king and royal family without mentioning the people, this was his way of sending a message that the United States is protecting them. of its people. And that you have to pay the bill.
One thing the British and American governments have in common is the deep disregard they actually have for the Arab rulers. The latter are supported for the purpose of serving a purpose and will be removed the moment they are no longer useful. The shameful regimes that have overseen the last rites of the Arab League will do the same when the West abandons them, and the Arab people regain their revolutionary zeal and break free from the two occupations that oppress them: the tyrannical regimes that occupy them. their governments and the Zionist occupation that steals Palestinian Arab land.
Read League of Shame Part 1 here
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.
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