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The Arab Summit, marketed by the Arab States of the Middle East as a pivotal meeting warranting full press coverage from every news agency in the world turned out to be just another self indulgent element in a PR campaign that has already been lost.  Been there, done that.  Nothing new.  The same old mistakes, the same old lies.  It won't be long now.
 

Arab Nations Together in a Death Spiral

With economies declining, and local resentment at home over relations with the Western world, the Arab Nations in the Mideast have reached a pivotal point in their existence. But the Arab Summit was not the grandious event to match the hoopla.  In a nearly unanimous vote to lift sanctions from Iraq and a declaration that "Any attack on an Arab Nation is an attack on all Arab Nations", the truth of Arab complicity in worldwide terror has become visible.  Moreover, the squabbling over the finer points of the Israeli-Palestinian disaster brings into question Arab genious desires to end the conflict.  Banding together as they have in the past, the so called elite of the Middle East have dug their own graves.

In the public face of the Arab Nations, none could support the premise that Iraq's Saddam Hussien is a dangerous man nor support the contention that Iraq is a danger to its neighbors.

But according to Sue Lackey of MSNBC, reporting from the summit, the Arab nations see Saddam Hussein's reign nearing its end.  Our sources confirm extreme nervousness over Iraq and the danger it presents to the Arab nations.  Not from invasion, but from the effects of its continued "stick in the eye" taunts of U.S. and U.N. requirements for weapons inspections.  While publicly standing by Iraq, the Arab nations are literally shaking their heads in dismay.  They consistently fear that the fate of Iraq will be their own.  And their public statements of support for Iraq, necessary to calm the evil they have created within their own borders, exacerbates the problem by inexorably tieing their survival on Iraq's survival.  A huge mistake.

In the public face of the Arab Natins, none could support the premise that Palestinian violence must stop.

The problems arise from their domestic policies over the last two decades.  The common people have been taught to see the U.S. positions in both cases as anti-Arab.

Similarly, the Israeli-Palestinian problems have been positioned as an Arab-Jew problem, painting the Israelis and their western supporters as a huge evil worthy of the Jihad.  In the meantime, the common peoples suffer while the elite continue to live fat off the oil profits gained by selling to that very same evil.  And Israeli retaliation continues to fuel Palestinian retaliation and a never ending cycle.  Arab pride refuses to make an effort to halt the violence even for a few days, and thus cycle restarts after each lull.  Israel pulls back and waits for a sign of peace and within days they get nailed for their patience.

And the Arab nations have done absolutely nothing to change their own people's minds on these subjects.  Remarkably, they have foolishly painted themselves into an extremely difficult corner in both the Palestinian and Iraq cases.  If they publicly chastise the forces killing Israelis, they appear to be supporting the Jew.  If they publicly chastise Iraq, they appear to be supporting the great evil, the Amercians and their puppets in the U.N.

However in the real world, if they support the suicide bombers and gunmen, the violence will never end and in fact may prompt an all out war in the Middle East led by the Israelis.  If they publicly support Iraq, then eventually when Iraq is dealt with -- and they freely admit in private that Saddam is not long for this world -- they will have hitched their reigns to a falling star.  With today's declaration, they now have to fight alongside Saddam, again fighting an all out war in the Middle East led by the Americans. How that must rankle those who know Saddam is a traitor to Arabs.

Decades of breeding hatred for the western world has backfired on the Arab Nations, especially Saudi Arabia, where terrorists have been bred, sent to Afghanistan for training, and now to Lebanon and Jordan to be infiltrated into Israel to conduct raids and suicide bombings. Trained for the attacks on the U.S. one of the Arab Nations largest trading partners.  And now the duplicity is coming home.

The lies propping up "Arab Solidarity" are wearing thin at home in the Arab nations.  Their populaces, being fed by the same forces that created the 9/11 terrorists, are now looking at their leaders with a jaundiced eye.  Once the favored nation in Islam, Saudi Arabia still wields much power in the Arab nations, but it is on a decline.  While the great evil prospers, the great Islamic leaders also prosper.  But not the common people.  Their condition worsens, and their religious leaders tell them it is because the great evil is causing their pain.  But when they look closely, they begin to see a strange thing happening.  Their leaders disavow terrorism, condemm the suicide bombers and then support the great traitor Saddam.  The Princes continue to rule in luxury while the people struggle and who gives them the wealth that makes the elite so comfortable?  The Satans of the western world.  It is all so confusing.  As Arab students begin to look at the world with educated eyes, they begin to see the lies behind the duplicity.

The proposition that Iraq is to be treated just like any other Arab nation is a symptom of the disease that will eventually topple this "princely kingdom".  You cannot build Arab solidarity when you include a country and leader who has no difficulty attacking its neighbors.  Iraq is the only Arab nation to attack not just one, but two of its Arab neighbors.  It would not be a friend to any Arab nation today, were it not also the target of the civilized western world.  Even Arab acceptance of the two faced negotiation technique cannot survive this conflicting position.

Even from the PR viewpoint this conflict is apparent.  It is interesting that the Arab nations squabble over what to do about the Palestinians and Israel, yet can easily and quickly agree to welcome Iraq "back into the brotherhood of Arab nations" with an unaminous vote.  Looking at this PR message, you find that odd dichotomy -- solidarity with Iraq is more easily accepted than support for the Palestinian cause.  Why does this occur.  It is simple really.  You can't say "Iraq is a soverign nation and does not have to follow the rules of civilized behavior" and then turn around and say "Israel is not a sovereign nation and has no right to defend its people from suicide bombers and gunmen."  The two do not logically fit together.  It only points out the "Us versus Them" -- Arab versus the rest of the World.   When logic fails, emotion soon will follow. The Arab nations have hoped that emotions would prevent logic from being recognized, but that is no longer the case.  Their own people are beginning to see the lie.

The two faced Arab negotiation style has finally paid its negative dividend.  By smiling and shaking the hand of their infidel business partners, they now find themselves having to take the hand of the traitor Saddam to divert the attention of their people at home -- a people they have clearly been training for hatred of the very source of their wealth.  Soon they will lose both hands and spiral down into extinction.

Where does this duplicity come from?  Because the foolish Arab leaders ego says they are the kings and princes of oil.  In reality, their power is quickly waning and their leverage is just as quickly vanishing.  The duplicity over Iraq and Israel conflicts head on with their place in the world's economy and membership in civilized nations, and more and more of their populations see this.  Arab nations cannot support an attack on business partners, cannot support attacks on soverign nations, without opening themselves to the same attacks.  The duplicity between public and private diplomacy, their own theft of needed resources from their countrymen, and the arrogance to believe no one will catch them at is now marking the end of their reigns.

In the end, they will find that the rest of the World's cultures recognize the right of Israel to exist and cannot accept suicide bombers and gunmen taunting Israel into retaliation after retaliation.   The World's cultures cannot allow Saddam to continue to build his forces and WMD stockpiles.

Until the Arab nations can stand in public and refute the right of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Al Aqsa Brigades to kill Israelis, the Arab nations will continue to be pariahs to their chief business partners.  Until the Arab nations can stand in public and refute the right of Saddam to tweak his nose at the World's requirements to disarm and allow inspections of his WMD facilities, their ability to control the agenda will diminish.

They will continue to have declining economies, and populations who more and more question their leaders.  They will eventually find themselves with a lot of oil to sell to each other and larger, more powerful nations in their midst trying to keep a lid on the evil they have bred within their own borders.

This Arab Summit would have been the best place and right now the best time for the Arab Nations to finally throw down the big lie and stand up to refute their traitorous neighbor and condem violence against Israel and take their place in the civilized world.  Instead, we face another year of Middle Eastern madness, a madness that threatens to double and triple the death rates and possibly may involve an East Versus West war.
 

© Copyright, 2002, Michael Crawford, MILNET

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