What conclusion came from the double conference of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in its?
It is enough to stand in statements by the country’s officials who hosted this initiative, which was the one that was hit by the Israeli air raid aimed at its leadership.
On the one hand, the placement of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al -Thani, who described the Israeli Prime Minister’s ambition to turn the Middle East into a sphere of Israeli influence.
On the other hand, the country’s prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdelrahman al -Thani, to call on the international community “to stop having two meters and two weights” and to impose sanctions on his “crimes”.
The reactions, rather lukewarm to a state whose diplomatic competence was fully challenged, are indicative of the reluctance of the Arab regimes on the Palestinian issue.
Inconsistency
Another indication is the case of the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf Country that maintains the closer relations with Tel Aviv. Although Abu Dhabi called the Israeli ambassador for explanations and described the air raid as “” he did not take any further action.
It had been preceded by an Emirates official that any annexation of the West Bank would violate the “red line” of the monarchy and betray the spirit of the “Abraham Agreements”.
The inconsistency between reasons and works, which permeates all the states of the two organizations more or less, is due to a number of factors.
The first concerns Israel’s military superiority, based on the fear of the nuclear arsenal but also on conventional war capacity, tested to date on seven different territories.
The second has to do with the particularly delicate balance that the ruling elites of the Arab states seeing as dangerously destabilizing the Palestinian issue, a consequence of their structural hostility to all kinds of activism of their citizens, are called upon to keep.
Finally, the economic dependence of the same states on the US and Israel.
The beginning of the oil embargo
“The conference shows that great wealth is not translated into great power,” he says – correctly – in an article by the experienced American journalist CNN Ben Widman, recalling the mismatch between economic prosperity and political power that characterizes the two organizations that represent about two bodies.
He is tempted to compare the attitude of today’s leaders with that of October 1973, when the oil ministers of the countries that were the Arab oil exporting countries (Oapec) met in Kuwait, while the war between Israel and Syria.
“In Kuwait, the Oapec ministers, led by Saudi Arabia, have decided to reduce oil production and impose limitations on exports to the United States and other countries that supported Israel and its war effort. It was the beginning of the Arab oil embargo that played an important role in the recession then experienced by Western economies, ”Windman notes
