Saudi Arabia is a very big loser in the Gaza war , just like the picture above it was absent from the start till the end. The only time we saw Saudi Arabia in action was when the King called for the GCC meeting by the request of Egypt in order to sabotage the Doha summit and that’s it and when the Arab FMs delegation went to the security council and then returned back with nothing. Of course I do not want remember that part regarding the Arab Peace initiative thing !!
The Saudi media was biased against Hamas in a very disgusting way as if those were killed were not Muslims and Palestinians in the first place, the newspapers and news channels were in a valley where as the Palestinians were killed in another valley,they were from the few supporters to the Mubarak in the region.
Nothing more ,nothing less. In my opinion the Saudi regime is in a a worse situation than the Egyptian because Saudi Arabia officially does not have official relations with Israel from near or far so it would act in this way. It was a sad thing to know that one of the big influential Saudi Sheikhs there said that it was harem to stop the oil export as a boycott weapon like in 1973 !! I do not know why the Sheikhs in 1973 did not find it harem then !!??
Saudi Arabia now is finding itself in front a new regional rival in the GCC called Qatar, the prince of Qatar has his own differences with the ruling family in KSA and he is not competing alone with Egypt as we believe more than he is competing with Saudi Arabia. Do not forget Saudi Arabia was heavily involved in several regional conflicts like in Lebanon and in Palestine. Qatar now began to get involve as much as Saudi Arabia was involved in the same area of conflicts.
In the Gaza war crisis ,Saudi Arabia lost its position as a leading country and followed the Egyptian regime this time , unfortunately the Egyptian regime made Egypt too loses its position as a leading country in the region for some time now .
Have any of your readers ever wondered why the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan are full of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. That is because the refugees were kept in refugee camps and not resettled, to use as a political tool against Israel. There were actually more Jewish refugees from Arab countries as a result of the wars with Israel. Life was made very unpleasant for them in the wake of the wars with Israel so they left their homes. The difference is that the Jewish refugees made new lives for themselves in Israel, France, Belgium, England, USA, Canada, South American, etc.
ReplyDeleteMy dear they did not resettle and refuse to resettle because these countries are not their home ,their home is Palestine
ReplyDeleteThere have been exchanges of populations before, such as when India and Pakistan gained independence. Many Muslims left India for Pakistan, and many Hindus left Pakistan for India. After World War II, ethnic Germans were expelled from Eastern European countries. There is nothing that makes the Palestinian refugees so special, other than their use as a political tool for 60 years.
ReplyDeleteI really do not understand all the fuss that was raised when there was an attempt to show the Israeli film "The Band's Visit" in Egypt. It was eventually shown but after a lot of trouble. The film is about the visit of a military band from Alexandria to Israel and their arrival in the wrong town. Arabic movies from Egypt were shown on Israeli TV back in the 1970's when I was a teenager on Friday afternoons and were very popular among Israeli Jews. No objections were raised to screening the great Egyptian movie "The Yacoubian Building" in Israel. People should really learn about each other's cultures.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to add something about the need for people to try and understand other people's cultures. When I was in the tenth grade in Israel we had several classes in history on Islamic history, which was presented objectively. Nothing bad was said about Islam. I remember that the teacher said something once about the beliefs of the Druze. Somebody laughed and the teacher tore into him. I doubt that the history of the Jews is presented as fairly in Egypt. The anti-Jewish garbage sold at kiosks in Egypt like "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is not true history; it is lies and distortions. Also, I know culture is not just movies. I have also read the trilogy of Mahfouz. I doubt the average Egyptian has read any Israeli authors.
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