What Arabs Did for Gaza? What They Did for Syria?

Eslam al-Rihani

Tens of years during which most of the Arab countries and their summits did not provide anything to the Palestinian cause but words and speeches, while the Palestinian people was the sole victim, and most of the Arab countries made plots against each other and stood up against the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. “They (referring to the Zionists) are not wolves, but most of us became ewes,” said Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem on Saturday during the urgent ministerial meeting of the Arab League in Cairo to tackle the Zionist assault on Gaza. It took long for the Arab leaders to find a suitable description for their fear of the Zionist entity. Their meetings which coincided with attacking Gaza have resulted in nothing but in the first aid which was even insufficient for healing the wounds of victims. Gaza had been under a similar attack in 2008, where peace initiative remained on table besides the first aid. At that time, Arab leaders tried to unify under the Doha summit, but they failed to get Gaza out of its crisis. “In addition to the verbal support, we should make practical moves,” said the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the Doha summit. However, the practical moves that Assad called for, were practiced against Damascus. After Arab leaders’ inability to everything in Gaza, they sharpened their ambitions to overthrow the regime in Syria. “We should mobilize all means of international pressure against the Syrian regime, as stated by his excellency Qatar’s PM,” said Nabil al-Arabi, Arab League Secretary General during an Arab League session in 2012. “I believe that our Council shouldn’t be careless towards the level of serious escalation in Syria,” declared Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faissal during the same session. “We want to impose a tangible economic pressure, perhaps the Syrian regime realizes the inevitability of meeting the demands of its people,” also stated the Qatari PM. Sanctions were not enough; yet, arming the opposition is a more practical means. It is an intuitive initiative by the mind which armed resistance in Gaza with some bandages and medicines. “In this solution Yes, we support the arming of the Syrian opposition,” said Saud al-Faissal. Who said that Arabs are ewes? They are wolves towards each other, but EWES only before what they call ‘Israel’. Report extracted from Al-Manar TV news bulletin of Nov. 20, 2012. To watch the original report in Arabic, click here River to Sea Uprooted Palestinian The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this Blog!