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AS'AD AbuKHALIL: Gulf Arab Regimes' Fake Outrage Over Gaza
November 13, 2023
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This may be a new Arab era. The distance between rulers and public has never been wider. The Arab people, under strict conditions of repression, took to social media and the streets to make their rage known to the world.


At the foot of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square during a Palestine solidarity march against Israel's assault on Gaza, Oct. 21. (Alisdare Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)

By As`ad AbuKhalil
Special to Consortium News

It's too early to know exactly what the future of Arab politics and Arab-Western relations will be after Gaza. But it's not difficult to assume, based on the contemporary history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, that there'll be epoch-making repercussions to Israeli war crimes.

A new era is marked by the extent of Israeli brutality on live-TV. Looking back to the months preceding the operation against Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972, Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon had been subjected to merciless bombardment from Israeli fighter jets. Homes were destroyed and people were burnt alive.

Fatah leader Abu Dawud tells the story in his memoirs (he was the chief of the Munich operation — not Abu Hasan Salameh, as faulty Israeli intelligence would have it). Dawud's memoirs were supposed to be translated by St. Martin's Press in New York years ago, but Zionist organizations have made a fuss, and prevented the publisher from releasing it.

The Fatah organization did not conceive the plan out of nowhere. In fact it was Palestinian refugees who pressured their organization to take revenge; they were angry that Israel would get away with continuous deadly raids (the Lebanese government before the civil war in 1975, was beholden to the U.S. and Israel never defended Lebanon from Israeli attacks).

There was sustained, mass pressure on Fatah to do something, anything, to show that the Palestinians were not helpless. Abu Iyad (second-in-command, after Arafat within Fatah) conceived this ill-advised plan, which, like many PLO operations, failed (the outcome remains murky and it is likely that German police killed most of the hostages in the shootout).


Munich 1972 Olympics complex, Oct. 30, 2005. (Dave Morris, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Likewise, there will be pressure on Palestinian organizations "to do something" in revenge after Gaza; there will be pressure to do many things to avenge the deaths of thousands of children.

In fact, it is likely that new Palestinian organizations will be born out of the horrors of Gaza.

Many angry boys and men will join existing organizations or will form new ones dedicated to avenging the deaths of over 11,000 people thus far.

The End of Fatah & the PLO


U.S. President Joe Biden with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian children presenting flowers at his arrival on July 15, 2022, at the Palestinian Presidential Palace in Bethlehem. (White House, Adam Schultz)

The organization that the U.S. and Israel count on to take over Gaza, i.e., Fatah and the PLO, just had their official death certificates written in stone; marked by the carnage. Both are now rightly seen as mere tools of the occupation. They have no chance of survival after Gaza, notwithstanding the best, corrupt wishes of the US and Israel.

The reverberations of Gaza will be felt in various Arab countries, and governments will be judged on their reactions. The Saudi and U.A.E. governments are probably the least displeased with Israeli atrocities: they are close security allies of Israel, and both share enmity toward the Hamas movement.

Saudi media carry long articles regarding the carnage, but blame them on Iran, not Israel; and Hamas is being faulted for dragging the region into war. Saudi religious scholars are tightly controlled by the government and footage of Friday sermons show armed guards surrounding the seat of the Friday religious speaker; they watch to see if the speaker veers off script. That would be the end of a career, or even their lives.




Religious speakers were instructed not to show much compassion for Gaza and to speak about it in the most general terms. As usual, the worshippers were instructed to follow the directions of "those in charge," a reference to the rulers.

Yet, as the slaughter continued to increase, the Saudi government, which wished that the war would end because its continuation would bring embarrassing attention to its inaction, felt it had to appear concerned. During the Gaza nightmare, the Saudi entertainment industry was celebrating a series of festivities celebrated as "Riyadh nights": comedy shows, dance groups, and singing performances were taking place while the overwhelming majority of Arabs were glued to TV screens carrying live footage of Gaza.


Like Washington, Arab governments in the Gulf were taken aback by the level of public sympathy for the Palestinians and outrage at Western acquiescence with the slaughter. Some Saudi and U.A.E. intellectuals, who quietly sat out the normalization process, returned to social media with a vengeance, tweeting feverishly about Gaza and Western hypocrisy. Saudi government officials assured Western officials that normalization talks would proceed and that the war on Gaza would not derail the foreign policy course of the Saudi regime.

To be sure, the U.A.E. and Saudi governments announced shipments of aid to Gaza and both governments issued mild — by Arab standards — statements condemning the massacres. But they were both careful to demand a return to peace talks with a view toward the establishment of a Palestinian state, side-by-side with Israel. This is now where the rulers of those countries are.


A few years ago, support for Hamas increased in Saudi Arabia, according to a poll by the Washington Institute for Near Policy, which usually produces polls that are not inconvenient to Israel. As the war continued, the Saudi regime unleashed their electronic army which bombarded social media with torrents of abuse at Hamas and Hizbullah and their leaders. Their propaganda is clearly coordinated with Israel and the U.S. through the U.S. media center in Dubai.


Hamas rally in Bethlehem, May 4, 2006. (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5)

(During the crisis, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken officially asked Al Jazeera to tone down the coverage and viewers noticed the results of the demarche, at least on Al Jazeera English).

Saudi media mocked Hizbullah for not entering the war, knowing that it would also blame its leader, Hasan Nasrallah, for the war if he were to expand it. This crisis has proved that the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia are reliable allies of Israel, their statements of condemnations of Israel notwithstanding.

Saudi Arabia runs the Arab order, and it coordinates its moves with the U.S. and Israel.

The Arab-Islamic "emergency" summit, convened a month after the slaughter in Gaza started, issued a long statement containing 31 articles. None of the articles (which talk about the need to document Israeli war crimes and the need to take Israel's case to the International Criminal Court, as well as poetic descriptions of the suffering and the need for humanitarian aid to Gaza) matter except article 25, which states that the Arab countries are "reiterating the attachment to peace as a strategic option."


What is the value of denunciations and condemnations when the governments run by the Saudi regime declare their adherence to peace with Israel? What kind of leverage do you have with Israel when you reassure it that no matter how many crimes it commits, Arab countries will continue to insist on peace with it, even when it has consistently and repeatedly rejected the Arab "peace initiative" of 2002? In fact, article 25 of the statement basically tells Israel that its crimes will be forgiven and that Arab potentates will be making peace with it.

Historic Irony


Yasser Arafat, fourth from right, at Brandenbug Gate during visit to East Germany in 1971. (Franke, Klaus / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Another article insists that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the "sole and legitimate" representative of the Palestinian people. This article is ironic because those Arab countries fought and undermined the PLO when it was truly a representative of the Palestinian people. In present-day Palestine, the PLO is nothing but an association of gangs and mafias run by the head of the PA mafias, Mahmoud Abbas, and his corrupt family.

Hamas, for example, is not a member of the PLO and yet today it represents the bulk of the Palestinian public. This article was clearly inserted by order of the U.S. and Israel who fear a legitimization of the popularity of Hamas in the wake of Oct. 7. Hamas has become widely popular not only among the Palestinians but also among the Arab public. Its commanders are now cult figures, and the images of the spokesperson of its military wing, Abu `Ubayda, can be seen in many Arab and Muslim capitals.

We may have already entered a new Arab era. The gulf between rulers and the public has never been wider. The Arab people, under strict conditions of repression and control, took to social media and to the streets to make their rage known to the world. The Saudi and U.A.E. governments felt the mass anger and for that they convened the Arab summit.

Israel thinks it can end Hamas but that is besides the point. Palestinian violence will chase those who killed Gaza children for years to come.

As`ad AbuKhalil is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), Bin Laden, Islam and America's New War on Terrorism (2002), The Battle for Saudi Arabia (2004) and ran the popular The Angry Arab blog. He tweets as @asadabukhalil

The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.



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"He who Created me, it is He who Guides me"

amin

 division of people
Quote from: good logic on November 13, 2023, 07:16:26 PM
There is a  difference between Hamas and Fatah. Who is Hamas and where does it originate from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7grSsuFSS0

Just like the story of ISIS. Supported and financed  by Mossad and the CIA directly and indirectly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2avVIHde8&t=616s

Set  one faction against another watch them destroy each other- Of course -ISIS- the Frankenstein Monster also turns against America and the west- . Then have a reason to destroy Muslims and tar them with the same brush.

Or  Muslims have brought it on themselves?
Power games with atrocities are many , most  have hidden agendas.
GOD bless.
Peace.

This looks so apparent now and for Israelis these militants are easier to handle and eliminate than the leaders of united Palestine asking for separate nationhood with occupied lands returned. Now Free Palestine looks more difficult than ever after this recent hamas actions.

good logic

Peace amin.

I find Qoran warns all generations that if they do good it is for their benefit but if they pursue the evil way it will be to their downfall.
GOD also has a plan and purpose for the humans and knows those who will do good and succeed and those who do evil and  end up a failure/their loss.

GOD is in full control. Many disasters have turned towards their end as blessings in disguise.
Never despair of GOD s Mercy and help.
This generation and the future ones  have the means to check out all information and narratives, Let us see what develops and how many hidden agendas are going to be exposed.
It is a shame that some still hide their evil and lie openly,and get away with it  But a day of reckoning where every secret will come out is very near.
GOD bless you.
Peace.
TOTAL LOYALTY TO GOD ALONE.   IN GOD I TRUST
38:65″ Say:? I warn you; There is no other god beside GOD, the One, the Supreme.?
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Jafar

Quotedivision of people
Through shallow and absurd definition of race, ethnicity, religion and nationality.
That's how 'darkness' works, thus their path is named as the 'path of separation'.
Characteristics: Pride, Ego, Fear, Anger, Hatred, Desire of Power and Controlling others through Fear.
Each 'group' then have tendency towards entropy, conflicting and destroying each others, as such is the nature of Pride.

hawk99

Quote from: shukri on November 10, 2023, 10:57:33 PM
Brother hawk99,
Your statements are very right based on the Quran.
I totally agree with you.

But Yoda is from "Fantasy Island" :jedi:
He has a different approach to save our planet
Just give him a chance, brother!

Note:
My statement on "Reply #70" is a trivia/prank in nature, don't take it seriously!

Peace shukri,

Oh! I am not aware who Yoda is.  I will not take your reply seriously.   :handshake:  The relationship between the established state of Israel and the Palestinians
was doomed from the inception.  The Israelites imposed themselves on the people of Palestine.

"The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917, announced Britain's promise for a "national home
for the Jewish people" in Palestine, which was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The promise appeased the
Zionist movement, who believe in a Jewish right to the land of Jerusalem -- or Zion."

Imagine an unwanted guest moves into your home,


God bless you

                                                                                        :peace:
The secret to monotheism can be found in the garden

good logic

Oh, Just like types of Muslims there are also types of Jews.
GOD bless the fair and peaceful people, like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhHhL_15Nw

GOD bless you all.
Peace.
TOTAL LOYALTY TO GOD ALONE.   IN GOD I TRUST
38:65″ Say:? I warn you; There is no other god beside GOD, the One, the Supreme.?
[url="https://total-loyalty-to-god-alone.co.uk/?p=28"]https://total-loyalty-to-god-alone.co.uk/?p=28[/url]

Jafar

Quote from: hawk99 on November 15, 2023, 03:27:45 PM
"The Balfour Declaration, issued by the British government in 1917, announced Britain's promise for a "national home
for the Jewish people" in Palestine, which was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The promise appeased the
Zionist movement, who believe in a Jewish right to the land of Jerusalem -- or Zion."

In the same manner as a deity labeled "Yahweh" promised the canaan land (today's Israel / Palestine) to the "chosen people" lead by Moses.
Where in the land is already populated by the "Phillistines", the native to the land.
As written in the Torah.
The similar story can be found wherein deity labeled "Allah" promised the land to Bani Israil lead by Musa.
As written in the Quran (5:20)

Imagine an unwanted guest moves into your home,
Imagine if you're the "Phillistines", where you are labeled as "the unchosen" and "need to give the land to Moses/Musa and his people" just because a deity said so and you happened to worship another deities.

#ReligionIsInsane

shukri

Quote from: Jafar on November 16, 2023, 11:03:38 AM
Imagine an unwanted guest moves into your home


Hi my friend,

I have two questions for you:
(1) Imaging if you are a Palestinian living in Gaza (no way out), what should you do to these unwanted "heartless" guests?
(2) Do you think the attack by Hamas is a "karma" to Israelis regime*?
*what goes around comes around

I hope i can learn something from you!
Thank you.
"My Lord, pardon me if I have forgotten or erred"

Jafar

Quote from: shukri on November 17, 2023, 09:29:48 AM
(1) Imaging if you are a Palestinian living in Gaza (no way out), what should you do to these unwanted "heartless" guests?
There's a classic Zen story, very popular especially during the warring period in Japan.

A village was warned that a vicious warlord and his soldiers were coming to destroy the town, so they all fled.
All except one old monk, that is, who stayed meditating in the temple.
When the warlord came in and saw him, he drew his sword, pointed it at his head and said angrily,
"You stupid monk! Don't you know who I AM? I can run you through without batting an eye?!"
The old monk looked up at him and calmly replied, "And don't you know that I can be run through without batting an eye?"

"Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself."
-- Lao Tzu

Quote(2) Do you think the attack by Hamas is a "karma" to Israelis regime*?
*what goes around comes around

The Islamist Religious Extremists is a perfect reflection to the Israelite Religious/Nationalist Extremists. (And also Christian Religious Extremist for that matter)
Research how the Israelite brutally and helplessly staged a failing rebellion against the Roman Empire.
And how they eventually besieged at Masada.

Having said that; time has changed, due to excessively brutal response from Israeli military, the Hamas is actually 'winning the war' as we speak. The notion of "100 Eyes for an Eye" is hard to die out.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.
But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.
If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.

-- Jesus

shukri

Quote from: Jafar on November 17, 2023, 03:43:09 PM
There's a classic Zen story, very popular especially during the warring period in Japan.

A village was warned that a vicious warlord and his soldiers were coming to destroy the town, so they all fled.
All except one old monk, that is, who stayed meditating in the temple.
When the warlord came in and saw him, he drew his sword, pointed it at his head and said angrily,
"You stupid monk! Don't you know who I AM? I can run you through without batting an eye?!"
The old monk looked up at him and calmly replied, "And don't you know that I can be run through without batting an eye?"

"Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself."
-- Lao Tzu

You mean, you will do nothing and let the unwanted Israeli "heartless" guests disappear by itself!
"My Lord, pardon me if I have forgotten or erred"