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I don’t have to tell you
much about Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom is run by the 84 year old, ailing
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. His personal wealth is estimated at $21
billion USD. He rules a clan of 8000 princes who in turn rule the country.
Saudi Arabia is the centre of corruption in the Arab world. The Saudi rulers
corrupt everything with their money. Lacking the necessary mental power or
physical courage, they try to stay in power by subterfuge, lies, and
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They fund the real
extremists on the one hand while portraying themselves as the protectors of
the Western interest on the other. They preach intolerance and xenophobia to
their people decrying the Western decadence, while spending a lot of time
enjoying the life in the West. They pay the West for protection against
their own people and they pay the extremists to do their fighting elsewhere.
Saudi rulers are indeed the worst of them all.
House of Saud is also the financier of the so called Arab Moderates and the
extremism that they cause. House of Saud financed the Mujahedeen in
Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. They later financed the Taliban. They also
paid Saddam Hussein to fight Iran. Then they paid the Americans and
Egyptians to fight Saddam Hussein. They are the financiers of death and
misery. They finance anything, anywhere, as long as this reduces the threat
to their illegitimate rule. They are currently financing the civil war in
Somalia, bandits in Baluchistan (Pakistan and Iran) and God knows what else.
They are detested by their own people and neighbors yet loved by Bush,
Cheney and the oil companies.
As long as they provide the money and oil the US is willing to tolerate
them.
And guess what? The Muslim Brotherhood hates the House of Saud too. This
makes them a threat and hence they have to be dealt with.
The Collaboration
As can be seen, each country has a selfish reason to eliminate Hamas, but
each is restrained by its population. Israel has no such a restraint imposed
on it.
She not only can wage a terrible war, but she also gets assistance from Arab
countries. Indeed it is the second time (the first was the invasion of
Lebanon in 2006) that Israel is getting open and solid support from these
Arab countries. The invasion of Gaza was discussed in Egypt before its
implementation. Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia are Israel’s active
partners.
Egypt is actively involved in stopping all aids from getting to Palestinians
in Gaza save a token few trucks. These few trucks are allowed to go through
so they can be filmed and shown to Egyptian people. All demonstrations are
banned, and all Egyptian volunteers for Gaza are either arrested or sent
back.
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There are hundreds of thousands of volunteers across the Muslim world that
is willing to go to the aid of the Palestinians, but the Egyptian
authorities don’t allow them passage. Egyptians even stop medical aid from
passing through their territory. This is part of a report from Associated
Press: RAFAH, Egypt: Frustration is mounting at Egypt’s border with the Gaza
Strip, where many local and foreign doctors are stuck after Egyptian
authorities denied them entry into the coastal area now under an Israeli
ground invasion.
Anesthesiologist Dimitrios Mognie from Greece idles his time at a cafe near
the border, drinking tea and chatting with other doctors, aid workers and
curious Egyptians. |
“This is a shame,” said Mognie, who decided to use his vacation time to try
helping Gazans. He thought entering through Egypt, which has a narrow border
with the Hamas-ruled strip, was his best bet.
“That in 2009 they have people in need of help from a doctor and we can go
to help and they won’t let us. This is crazy,” he added.5
In addition there are many Iranian cargo planes full of food and medicine
which have been sitting on the tarmacs in Egypt for days waiting for
permission to deliver their cargo. Egyptians even denied the medical aid
sent by the son of the Libyan President Qaddafi to land in Egypt.6
One thing is clear: these three countries do not want the Israelis to fail
in their mission of totally destroying Gaza. Hosni Mubarak said so himself.
The daily Haaretz reported that Hosni Mubarak had told European ministers on
a peace mission that Hamas must not be allowed to win the ongoing war in
Gaza.
As Egypt physically aids the Israeli military by denying food, fuel and
medicine to the civilians, the House of Saud helps Israel by giving her time
and diplomatic cover. When Israel started its invasion there was an
immediate call for an Arab summit. Saudi Arabia and Jordan (along with Egypt
of course) delayed the summit. The Saudis along with the UAE said that they
had another meeting to attend to and therefore Palestinian issue had to
wait. After a few days when the summit was eventually held, they issued the
same old statements. Yet this time same as the Israel’s invasion of Lebanon
in 2006, they blamed the victims. In a statement, Saudi Arabia blamed Hamas
for Israel’s continuing offensive in the Gaza Strip. Saudi Arabia, after
blaming Hamas, declared that it will not even consider an oil embargo on
Israel’s supporters. She then again blamed Hamas.
By this time, the three Arab countries along with Kuwait and UAE began
singing the old song: international community is not doing anything about
the catastrophe that is taking place in Gaza. It seems that these Arab
tyrants have no shame at all. This reminds me of a quote from Marquis De
Sade (1740-1814):
“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown
too old to blush.”
These Arab leaders (many are indeed too old to blush) are complicit in the
murder of so many civilians, especially young children. According to Agence
France-Presse, quoting the medics on the ground, fully one third of all
people killed have been children.7 how can these Arab leaders this
to their people?
The answer is that they cannot. Israel knows this and for the second time
can show the Arab street that their leaders are nothing but a bunch of old
hypocrites. These Arab leaders are now exposed and can do nothing but to
cooperate fully with Israel and US. What stand between them and their
people’s rage is their army and secret services; which in turn are supported
by US.
Israel has cleverly exposed these leaders for what they are: collaborators
of the worst kind. These Arab leaders have brought an unimaginable shame to
their people.
To quote Lucien Bouchard: I have never known a more vulgar expression of
betrayal and deceit. Our hope is now with the people of these countries to
clean this stain from their honour. |