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Mourning the Arab League

The Egyptian and Saudi governments called for an Arab League “emergency meeting” a few days ago for the foreign ministers to discuss what is happening in Lebanon. 

"It has been decided to hold an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers on Sunday in Cairo, at the request of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, to put an end to the deadly battles in Lebanon," an Arab League official said.

Ha!  please spare us the garbage!  The Arab League wants allegedly “to put an end to the deadly battles in Lebanon”!!!  When was the last time Arab officials ever achieved anything?  There are indeed Arabs who do achieve many things, but they are never Arab ‘officials’.

While Israel is celebrating its 60th ‘anniversary’, we Arabs are celebrating 60 years of Naqba… 60 years of catastrophe, occupation, war, death and daily violations of basic human rights and dignity because the Arab League and the policies drafted by its great members have always resulted in failure.  A big portion of Palestine was lost in 1948 and from 1948 to 2008, every single day an additional piece of Palestine was lost to Israel while the Arab League was having “emergency meetings”.  Failed Arab policies and meetings are repeated over and over again with absolutely no sense of the resentment such failure has created among the Arab people towards the assorted officials.  The Arab League was formed to solve the Palestinian problem.. but what has it done for the Palestinians?  Nothing.  It is today practically complicit in the Zionist agenda. 

"Egypt and other Arab countries are very concerned by the actions of Hizbollah in Lebanon," an Egyptian diplomat said.

What exactly is the Arab League’s “concern” in Lebanon?  Is it a concern for the Lebanese people or for Lebanon as an Arab country..  or is it just a concern for the Siniora government that happens to be ever so closely allied to the US and thus Israel?  Will the Arab League be inviting representatives of the different forces of the Lebanese opposition to represent Lebanon or will the Siniora unconstitutional government be the only representative of Lebanon because the United States placed the entire Lebanese opposition… Muslims, Christians and Druze on their “terrorist” list? Will the Arab League dare to invite Hezbollah?  Will the Arab League be voicing the concerns of 75% of the Lebanese people or will it be voicing the concerns of the tiny political pro US/Israeli axis that has been installed in Lebanon in 2005 after Rafiq el Hariri was conveniently assassinated?

"A party backed by Iran cannot be allowed to take control of the running of Lebanon," the diplomat ads.

It seems that the diplomat doesn’t mind however that a party controlled by the US and Israel take control.  One might still manage somehow to swallow the US… but Israel…?  The Arab League knows well the number of Israeli ‘agents’ present in the Lebanese government… Walid Jumblat, Samir Geagea, Amin Gemayel and on…  and it doesn't hesitate to talk to them at any time but it hesitates when it comes to Hezbollah.   The Arab League further insists on voicing concern about Iran as though Iran was the enemy!  There is nothing Arab any more about the Arab League!  Beating the drums of war against Iran when everybody knows that Iran is not the threat, is a purely American/Israeli stand and as far as the Arab world is concerned, Israel is the enemy and will always remain the enemy with or without a peace treaty!  The Arab people do not accept to hear Zionist thoughts or ideas coming from their politicians.

It is amazing how US/Israeli propaganda has made its way to the very language used by Arab leaders.   Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority made  the preposterous accusation against Hamas of using civilians as ‘’human shields in Gaza.  Nour el Maliki of the Iraqi puppet government accuses Moqtada el Sadr of the same 2 or 3 weeks ago.  Both seem to think that Arab citizens are sheople too who don’t remember classic Israeli accusations against Palestinians.  Fouad el Siniora, the unconstitutional Lebanese Prime Minister that is holding onto his seat with his teeth,  accused Hezbollah of trying to “overthrow” the government.  He used a classic term which Mahmoud Abbas used against Hamas when Hamas took over Gaza… keeping in mind that Hamas actually is the legitimately elected Palestinian government.  He describes Hezbollah as the “over-throwers” of the government.  Like Mahmoud Abbas’ government, Seniora is an unconstitutional government that is maintained only by the support of complicit Western countries and complicit international organizations which prefer to keep their puppets in power rather than lose Lebanon (or Gaza) to a party they have no control over. What else do Mahmoud Abbas, Nour el Maliki and Fouad el Siniora have in common?  All 3 are the heads of US puppet governments that are no longer welcome by their people because the US is the biggest financier and supporter of Israel, a country that violates our rights every single day and occupies our lands, kills our brothers and sisters with the US blessings and applause.

So why would the Arab League now call for an “emergency” meeting?  It certainly isn’t going to achieve anything for the Arab world or the Lebanese people.  The Arab League did nothing for the Palestinians for 60 years.  It did nothing for the Iraqis for the past 5 years and is even planning now to re-activate its office in Baghdad in order to please the US as part of the “all is well in Iraq” propaganda campaign requested by Mr. Bush.  The Arab League watched one of its founders,  President Saddam Hussein be illegally tried and executed by their dear “ally” the United States of America and did nothing!  Let’s face it, the Arab League is meeting because Saudi Arabia and the US just took a whipping in Lebanon… and if Iran has to be blamed for it… so be it.  As far as the “moderate allies” of the US are concerned, Iran has all of a sudden replaced Israel.  It doesn’t have to make sense;  it just has to please the United States and Zionist controlled Washington. The Arab League couldn’t care less about the Lebanese people and it saddens me to have to say so.

The number of times we hear that the Arab League is convening an “emergency meeting” has become ridiculous.  We would like once to hear that the Arab League actually achieved something of value other than the tough restrictions on media satellite channels it had Arab information ministers impose on news broadcasting thinking mistakenly that the Arab people would thus be blinded from the ugly political realities surrounding them.  We would like once to hear about a meaningful political achievement of the Arab League instead of listening to its endless rhetoric.  When Mr. Bush goes to Israel in a few days to congratulate it and celebrate with it 60 years of occupation, murder and oppression of the Palestinian and Arab people, the Arab League should maybe openly join him, close its offices and  declare a National Day of Mourning for itself!

 

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maggieporter | Mon, 2008-05-12 16:47
Excellent post, Cherifa

Passionate and well written.

I once heard a joke:
 
When the Arab League dies, diplomats will gather at the funeral and immediately begin to argue. Each one will lay a hand on the Arab League casket, and shout: "He'll be buried in MY country!"
 
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Here are some comments from the Internet….
 
“Despite the proven failure of the Arab League, the Arab masses cling to this futile organization for help during times of crises. We see this when the israelis and the Western powers murder Arabs. The victims cry to journalists, “Where are the Arabs?” “Let the Arabs see this!” They desperately appeal to their Arab brothers and sisters, but their cries are ignored by the ruling palaces of member states.
 
The hope of an “Arab solution” should have faded a long time ago. Still, the Pan-Arab feeling of affiliation runs deep in the hearts and minds of the Arab masses, despite of their religious or cultural differences, and despite the indoctrination for loyalty to the “nation state” ideology adopted by every one of the Arab League states.
 
The ruling elites are well aware of the Arab bond that crosses borders during times of crises. The elites are afraid of this bond, and have therefore engineered political mechanisms internally and externally to pre-empt a tsunami wave that might threaten the “nation-state” ideology. For example, Jordanian law for political parties prohibits any cross-border organizational ties with fellow Arabs.
 
The elites promote Islam in order to advance their political ends. Islam is a powerful movement, and gets the attention of Western and israeli corridors of power, but for the elites, Islam is mere camouflage they use to escape accountability.
 
Arab League states individually and as a group failed to mobilize member nations under the Arab League defense pact. They could not prevent the Palestinian Nakba in 1947-48, nor the israeli occupation of four Arab states in 1967, nor the israeli occupation of Lebanon in 1982, the Iraq-Kuwait crisis in 1990, the US-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 2001and Iraq in 2003, the Israeli attack on Lebanon in 2006, and so on. Sudan, Somalia: the list of failures is long. The League’s helplessness is an integral part of all Arab crises.
 
Western and israeli powers fear Arab solidarity. Hence they made De-Arabization of the PLO a prerequisite for negotiations in the Oslo Accords. In 1998, a dozen articles of the PLO National Charter were deleted, and 16 amended, mostly dealing with the Pan-Arab affiliation of Palestinians.
 
The Arab League was founded by seven Arab states under British and French mandates in 1945 to serve the common good of all Arab countries, but the colonials made sure the League’s constitution did not include any power to make or enforce binding resolutions. This created a schism between rhetoric and reality in the Arab world; a schism that continues today.  In short, the colonialis sponsored the League’s creation in order to guarantee that Arabs would never achieve solidarity.
 
The Arab League was de-Arabized at its start, and its failure has led realpolitic ruling elites to seek “foreign solutions” to Pan-Arab crises.
 
Former U.S. Secretary of State Sirus Vance was asked about the closing of the Palestinian information office in 1987. Vance told an audience of diplomats and journalists at the National Press Club in Washington that Arabs were never united for war nor for peace, and that Algeria's former president, Chadli bin Jadid, was the only visiting Arab leader to urge the USA to support the creation of a Palestinian state. Vance said that if twenty-one Arab nations closed the offices of the U.S. Information Agency in their capitals, then Washington would have opened the PLO information office within days.
 
Has the Arab League changed since 1987? Yes: towards even more de-Arabization.
 
Source:
 
 
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King Abdul-Aziz (Ibn Saud) of Saudi Arabia believed there should always be a strict separation between imara and tijara (the realm of governance and the realm of commerce). That wisdom has disappeared in all parts of the Arab world. Today, Arab rulers cannot be distinguished from Arab owners. In every Arab state, the divisions between power and money are blurred to the point of invisibility. The resulting distortions in economic and political life have wiped out any semblance of accountability, transparency, or checks and balances. Therefore in Arab states, policy is formulated according to political and economic self-interest, rather than the public interest.
 
 
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An Arab speaks:
 
As a whole, the defining characteristic of Arab leaders is a combination of irrelevance, police-state autocracy, and razor-thin legitimacy. Power is held by handfuls of mostly unelected people (often the men of a single family). Since there is little accountability, there is little rule by public law, but a great amount of institutionalized corruption and nepotism. Therefore most young Arabs go to foreign countries, or escape into religion, or join extremist political groups, or drift into drugs and diversionary alien lifestyles.
 
Arab children are raised in largely lawless systems that enrich those who have guns. This reduces our children to gang members. The gang can be the army, or a renegade militia, or an official security service, but it’s still a gang. 
 
It is this gang mentality that helped create the Arab governments we see today.
 
 
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In 2004, the Arab League was scheduled to have its annual meeting in Tunis, but Ben Ali (the president Tunisia) cancelled the summit just hours before it was to open. 
 
This dealt a blow to the proposed Arab Free Trade Area (AFTA), which would have linked all 22  League states creating a single market of over 300 million consumers with a combined GDP of almost $700 billion (comparable to other trading blocks such as ASEAN Southeast Asia and Mercosur in Latin America).
 
The Tunis summit fell victim to conflicting views about what role the Arab League should play in the AFTA, and what policies the League should promote. Arab leaders wanted to maintain traditional cultural and political conventions. They were unwilling to take concerted action on any of the major economic or political issues that now confront the Middle East.
 
The AFTA proposal itself had weaknesses. It sought to cobble together a trade bloc on paper, without necessary elements for success in reality. For example, Arab countries have little shared infrastructure, and no recent history of any significant trade relationships on par with something like the European Union. In many cases the only overland communication between Arab countries is based on colonial era roads and railways.
 
Reformers are now focusing their efforts to facilitate smaller regional Arab trading blocs, which could in turn be unified at a future time. This happened with the European Union (EU), which began in 1957 as a compact six-member community.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Abdul Alhazred | Mon, 2008-05-12 23:20
AAZ

Thanks for your comments AAZ.  Believe me, the Arab masses don’t hang to the ‘this organization’; it’s the organization that hangs to them.  Before it meets every time, there are some street surveys and invariably people dismiss it in mocking manner..  Both Arab regimes and the US would be right to predict a tsunami…  They’ve been asking for it and should hardly be astonished when it comes. 

“The Arab League defense pact” Yes, I love that reference.  I always wondered what the Arab League ever did with the Defense Pact:)  When are they planning to use it?  Maybe to defend Israel?

It is true that Arab were never united.  The dream of Arab nationalism or unity has never materialized.  I am not a Nasser fan, so I don’t really know if I believe in Arab nationalism or maybe in simple regional strategic interests.

What all of this boils down to is that the failure of Arab regimes to deal with the interest of their own people is less and less acceptable.

 

Cherifa Sirry | Tue, 2008-05-13 07:22
an excerpt..

Hezbollah’s victory had angered the Arab leaders most of all, for it highlighted their lack of political will and their loyalties to foreign countries rather than to their people. All of these were afraid that Hezbollah would become an example for the Arab nations to rise up against their corrupt leaderships and to defeat Israel.

..from Jnoubiyeh's blog

Now, why would they be afraid of the latter?
Well founded fears for them, i suppose.
Because israel represents babylon.

I won't mourn for the beasts of men.

Grim Reaper | Tue, 2008-05-13 11:04
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Grim Reaper | Thu, 2008-05-15 05:38
Grim..

What can I say but WOW WOW and THANKS!!!!  Is that also the Jazeera footage that was removed from the net? Thanks so much!!

Cherifa Sirry | Fri, 2008-05-16 07:05
Grim...

I download the file once, but then I couldn't read it...  I guess I must be doing something wrong...  Now that it's hear, I can point people to it:)

Thanks!!

Cherifa Sirry | Fri, 2008-05-16 07:12
This one has a higher bitrate, compare 'em

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