Boukamal and Soleimani at the Arab League meeting

Written by Nasser Kandil,

Many people may be overwhelmed by the accusatory content issued by the Arab Foreign Ministers against Iran, saying that we are in front of the expected escalation, contradicting the basic rules of politics of scrutinizing the content of the call which led eventually to the statement, simply it is nothing. The statement and the decision say many things that affect the Iranian role and Hezbollah, but there are three meaningful sentences that have been canceled from the statement. The first sentence is “According to the aforementioned the Arab countries decide to break their diplomatic relations with Iran” The second sentence is” The Arab League asks the UN Security Council  to classify Iran as an incubator for terrorism and classifying Hezbollah as a terrorist organization” The third sentence is ” The Arab League stops the membership of Lebanon till the Lebanese government distinguishes itself from Hezbollah and takes procedures to prevent its interference in the Arab affairs” These sentences have been formulated and were the origin of the Saudi call for the Arab meeting, and were the reason of the high-ceiling language of the Secretary –General Ahmed Abou Al Ghaith before he discovered that he was reckless, because he was not notified of the variables and what they imposed of new changes.

It was unlucky coincidence in the fortunes of Al-Saud between the holding of their meetings and the repercussions of the resounding victory achieved in Boukamal; the Syrian border city with Iraq, the end of last strongholds of ISIS, in addition to the field role of the leader the General Qassem Soleimani in making this victory. When all the capitals of the world heard the echoes of this victory especially Washington, Paris, London, and Berlin they rushed to call Saudi Arabia to wait and to stay away from the escalation, because their priority has become the victory on ISIS. Europe knows the size and the importance of the role of Iran and Hezbollah in this confrontation, so it prepares itself to open up to the Syrian country according to the same priority despite its media participation through critical political words against what it called the Iranian role and dominance in the region, the Iranian interventions, and the Iranian missile program, but on the basis of sticking to the understanding on the Iranian nuclear file and protecting it. Washington which wanted the Arab meeting to escalate the situation against Iran and Hezbollah as a pressing and bargaining paper on Al Boukamal has been notified of what has happened in the morning so it said that the game is over, there is no justification for more escalation.

Once again it seems that the Gulf is away and separated from what is happening around it, it manages its battles foolishly, it wastes its prestige, status, and money with no achievements, it surrenders to an encouragement that it does not know its direction and objectives, it was surprised with its fall during the developments. This has happened after two months of the war on Yemen, when the Americans said that the deadline has ended, we are going to sign the understanding on the nuclear file, and this has happened with the escalation against Qatar once Russia entered the gas market and the understandings with the Americans about sharing the European market, the Americans said that there is no justification for escalation and we are ready for the mediation. For those who did not understand among the Gulf people and who follow them blindly as some of the Arab governments, the escalation against Iran has US function, tactically it was Boukamal and having control over it through the Kurdish armed groups affiliated to them, but it has ended with the entry of the Syrian army and its allies to it under the leadership of the General Soleimani through an expressive message, which is known well by the Americans, it is related strategically to devote the nuclear understanding with Iran with the Russian-Chinese participation in solving the nuclear crisis with North Korea.

The young people remain young even if they possess hundreds of billions and if they buy whom can think instead of them, the experience of the fall of Kurdistan was a sufficient lesson, wasn’t it?

The tampering with the representation of the Lebanese premiership is a game of adolescents is not it? It will be revealed by the days to come as well as the size of the Saudi losses.

Those who are afraid of wars are reading the plain speech rather than seeing the deep deeds.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,