By Latheef Farook
Will the Arab dictators face the same fate as the Bangladesh former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who was forced to flee, due to their shameful betrayal of Palestinians slaughtered by Israel with US- British, French and German supplied weapons and support.
Iran led shiite Houthis and Hisbullah sacrifice their lives to defend Palestinians while Saudi led Sunni regimes side with Israel and facilitate the genocide of Palstinians.
Despite immense wealth ,moral , religious and humanitarian obligations Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan , UAE and other Arab countries refused to give even a bottle of water or a parcel of food to Palestinians massacred by Israel almost on a daily basis for the past eleven months . .
Most Arab dictators hail from families installed in power by British,French and Zionist Jews in the aftermath of World War 1 when the Ottoman Empire was defeated to serve their western masters. These dictators are secular , hostile to Islam and Muslims , corrupt ,oppressive and cut away from their people who remain voiceless.
They need US-European and Israel to protect their regimes from their own people. They maintains unofficial ties with Israel though they are quick to deny any official or covert ties with Israel. This include Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,Egypt Jordan,Oman. Morocco, Bahrain and Sudan.
For example Morocco allowed an Israeli warship to dock in the port of Tangier to allow its crew to replenish fuel and food supplies en route from the US, after the Spanish government refused the vessel permission to use its ports.
In the same way United Arab Emirates, a Muslim country ,tried for weeks to bribe South Africa, a non Muslim country, to withdraw its case against Israel in the International Court of Justice .
Due to their severe violations of international human rights law, Arab dictators would not face Israel before the ICJ or ICC to avoid facing similar charges. This include Egypt, SaudiArabia, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, UAE, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, and the Palestinian Authority .
UAE has positioned itself as the primary regional ally of Israel.Media outlets and online platforms linked to the UAE have initiated a significant campaign backing Israel while seeking to vilify Palestinian resistance groups.
In another development Shites Houthis blocked Red Sea route to Israel. However Sunni regimes helped Israel using the land route that begins from Dubai and passes through Saudi Arabia and Jordan to transport cargo to bypass the Houthi blockade in the Red Sea.”
The land corridor is a key concern for the US and European powers. It is aimed at positioning the Israeli port of Haifa as a major gateway to Europe, altering the political and economic map of the region by bypassing the Red Sea and furthering Israel’s integration into the Gulf states’ economies.
Amid the gruesome Gaza war, passions are running high throughout the Arab world. Huge Palestine solidarity protests have been occurring across the region, and this terrifies many ruling elites who fear the Palestinian issue. They are hostile Islamically oriented Hamas and Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia clamped down on pro-Palestine protests.
Most Arab states are generally allergic to popular protests,” said Marina Calculli, a Columbia University research fellow . “They fear allowing protests of solidarity towards Palestinians could encourage protests against the government and their policies in other fields.”
“Arab states today do not like Palestinian nationalism because Palestinian nationalism is a source of popular mobilization on the Arab street,” said Nader Hashemi, the director of the Prince Alwaleed Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding at Georgetown University’.
Meanwhile diverting the world attenti0n from its genocide in Gaza, Israel has organized the worst ever anti Muslim campaign destablising Britain. The deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Arieh King, was accused of attempting to stoke far-right riots and tensions in the UK after posting repeatedly about the violence in recent days.
On Sunday 4 August, as anti-Muslim and racist mob attacks wracked cities and towns across the UK, King posted a cartoon image showing a brown Muslim-looking man with a beard and skullcap embracing a white British police officer, who has his arms around the Muslim.
Senior Conservative MP Robert Jenrick has been slammed by Muslim MPs and civil society groups for calling for Muslims who recite “Allahu Akbar”, meaning “God is great”, in loud to be immediately arrested. Jenrick served as immigration minister from 2022 to 2023 in Rishi Sunak’s government which supplied weapons to Israel to kill Palestinians and destroy Gaza.
British columnist David Hearst said an unholy alliance between fascists and far right Zionists fuelled anti Muslim riots in UK. He added that for years, far-right politicians and commentators have dripped racist poison into the well of Britain’s public discourse, leading to this toxic moment
However up to date no Arab country, including Saudi Arabia, claiming to be the guardian of Islam and Muslims, condemned violence against Muslims and tried to counter distorting and insulting Islam in Britain. These dictatorships managed to keep their people oppressed for almost a century. The question is how long they will be able to serve US-European and Israeli interests against their own people.
Meanwhile US and Israel together with their Egyptian stooge El Sisi , and perhaps other stooges, are trying to impose Palestinian stooge Mahmoud Abbas to rule Gaza once the slaughter of Palestinian in Gaza stops.
However new Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar warned Arab countries friendly with U.S. and Israel against planned peacekeeping forces deployment in postwar Gaza and also made it clear that Hamas won’t cede the enclave to pro-West Israeli stooge Palestinian Authority once the war ends. Sinwar sent a message to Egyptian mediators calling for complete withdrawal of Israeli forces and release of Palestinian prisoners as part of the potential ceasefire deal.
Latheef Farook is a journalist from Sri Lanka
14 August 2024
Source: countercurrents.org