18-03-2015 | 09:36
Arabs are puzzling, they have not left one of the supporters of their cause who they have not crushed, marginalized, and severed their relations with. It’s as if they were their own enemies, rather as if they – the regimes – were enemies of their people and their righteous causes.
When Venezuela severed its relations with the Zionist entity, Morocco severed its relations with Venezuela. This happened in the peak of the Zionist aggression on Gaza, which raised a thousand questions regarding the priorities that govern the foreign relations of Arab states with the rest of the world.
Today bears witness to another incident, one that incites great wonder and surprise and is fully worthy of condemnation:
Sweden, the European country that pioneered the way for the recognition of the Palestinian state in the West, is being punished, reprimanded, and barred from speaking at the Arab League by the order of “Big Brother”, Saudi Arabia.
What’s funny, rather nauseatingly so, is that it seems that Arabs are indeed professionals in repulsing friends, dispelling any sympathy towards their cause, and creating problems for whoever wishes to come closer to them.
The story began when Margot Wallstrom, the Swedish minister of foreign affairs, criticized Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, which was not unordinary as criticisms are delivered every day to a number of Arab countries without any severe backlash. This time, the authority in Saudi Arabia took these criticisms to heart in order to launch a major attack on Sweden, which led to a dwindling of bilateral relations, including Arabo-Swedish relations.
Statements were made by the highest figures in Saudi Arabia, criticizing Sweden and condemning the statements of the Swedish foreign minister. Moreover, the Saudi government pressured the Arab League to prevent the Swedish foreign minister from speaking at the League’s Council in Cairo, which was held following the Arab League Secretary General’s invitation for her to speak before the Council in honor of her country after it paved the way ahead of European countries to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
Saudi Arabia did not stop there. It pushed the League’s council to issue a pan-Arab condemnation from the League’s Council against the Swedish statement in a wanton, unprecedented move. Saudi Arabia then worsened relations between the two countries when it withdrew its ambassador from Stockholm, with matters headed towards increased escalation.
Onlookers may find themselves asking: Are regular criticisms from a foreign minister against the human rights record of an Arab country deserving of such sanctions and procedures? Is it permissible for matters to become so vindictive?
This Saudi reaction against Swedish statements push onlookers to look for other ways to approach the subject. This “Saudi upheaval” against Sweden and the statements of its foreign minister push one to think whether it was Sweden’s work on the recognition of a Palestinian state that lies behind the deep anger directed towards Sweden on more than one level, and whether this Saudi upheaval is just part of that campaign which groups together a number of states or parties, both in the West and in the Arab world.
This Sweden- the Sweden of Olof Palme and Anna Lindh- which was the first of Western countries to acknowledge some Arab rights in Palestine is thus rewarded and so undignifiedly treated, whereas the kings and princes of Arab states seek the good favors of Western states which refuse to do anything unless they serve the Zionist entity, and which eat away at Arab rights in their lands, rights, and possessions, and threaten their present and future.
What manner of freak standards are Arabs using to deal with the world? How can this ill-mannered behavior against our causes be justified? And what sort of backwards minds are managing this nation’s resources, delimiting its options and plotting its course?
It is of note that Olof Palme, – the former Swedish Prime Minister – was assassinated by gunshot on his way out of the cinema with his wife on February 28th, 1986, whereas Lindh – former Swedish foreign minister – passed away on September 11th, 2003, after succumbing to several stab wounds to her back whilst shopping with her friends in broad daylight. The two were of the most opposed to Washington and “Tel Aviv”.
Uprooted Palestinian 
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