NYN | Articles | Nizar Al-Suhaili:
The recent Israeli aggression on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah reinforces the hypothesis that the Arab official system has lost its collective security for many decades. It also amplifies the occupation’s crisis with the Palestinian people and their resistance, as well as with Arab populations who watch in distress what is happening. The ongoing aggression on Gaza and the Palestinian people remains the heavy gauge of this shaken security under the blows of Israeli aggression and occupation, with no strong Arab positions condemning the aggression or threatening to confront it.
It is no longer hidden that a real crisis is sweeping through the anxious reality of the region’s security due to the arrogance and crimes of the occupation. The majority of the Arab official system has adopted the slogan of internal security and the stability of its rule as priorities, in which it has lost its roles and minimized its policies to the point of losing both decision and role, leaving a void that allows the occupier’s planes to fly thousands of kilometers to bomb an Arab city. It is content with issuing instructions to its armies to control the occupier’s borders and monitor the continuous genocide crimes in Gaza and the rest of Palestine. This void has laid the foundation for the violation of sovereignty, the threat to national and regional security, and the ongoing tampering with its water, economic, geographic, and demographic security.
The long-distance flight of the occupier’s aircraft from southern Negev loaded with destructive bombs towards the Yemeni port of Hodeidah differs from the incident of drone attacks launched by Tehran in response to the bombing of its consulate in Damascus. In the first incident, there was an “Arab gallantry” represented by the activation of Arab defenses and aviation to repel these missiles and drones before they reached Israel last April, in cooperation with Western countries.
From the Israeli aggression on Yemen, it is evident that the Arab retreat from its security and the adoption of Zionist pretexts that allow for aggression on its security and sovereignty has had a significant impact on the step of expanding Israeli aggression in the Arab region to include Yemen and the threat of Israel’s ability to strike any target in the region and in any Arab capital that thinks of supporting the Palestinian people.
The absence of Arab condemnation of the aggression on Yemen was preceded by Israeli-American praise for the “gallantry” shown by Arab armies and security systems in defending the occupier. It was also preceded by positions of an Arab consensus supporting the occupier’s aggression on Gaza to eliminate the phenomenon of resistance in Gaza and eradicate the Hamas movement. Arab actions were based on the notion that prevailing Arab gallantry, whether in fighting the occupier or supporting the Palestinians, is alien to the essence of the Arab system. Tehran is considered the one that moves the consciences and hearts of Arabs and Muslims to express their rejection of the occupier and their readiness to confront it. The Iranian penetration into the region is a common excuse that ties Tel Aviv to Arab and Western capitals, which push the victims of the Zionist colonizer to resist. This ugly inferiority complex in falsifying and demonizing Palestinians and their resistance, as well as Arab peoples, is perpetuated by Arab regimes with their armies, security, and media. They provide Western and American research centers with advice and pretexts to strike Palestinian resistance and request military assistance to help some regimes tighten their repressive grip on their streets and societies.
No matter how vast the imagination of the politician is, no one dared to imagine the extent to which the current reality of Arab security and policies has reached, leading to the imbalance of power that enabled the Israeli occupier to be the “main” player in this regard. Its repeated raids on Syrian sovereignty, without the regime’s response to the aggression and its absorption of messages that it targets Iranian militias in Syria without intending to topple the regime, show how the regime digests its role and the role of its military machine. This is a clear indicator of the direction it takes concerning its security and safety on the throne. The situation is similar in the Palestinian neighborhood in Egypt with Gaza, where Israel kicked the Camp David Accords to the occupied Philadelphia corridor with many Arab cases. These are content with the role and function of receiving Israeli and American instructions for the same reason that strengthens Arab roles with indifferent positions towards their security and their people’s security as long as they perform tasks of repression and oppression for them.
The common factors of Arab security prioritized creating a common enemy (terrorism) far from the Zionist colonizer, its terrorism, and its crimes. Therefore, the Arab imagination, which reads the course of aggression on Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and the Arab positions towards it and its consequences, clearly indicates a final renunciation of its security role in favor of the Israeli occupation’s monopoly of this role. This is what the American administration seeks, forming the clearest picture of ongoing Arab confusion and disarray since decades to the present. The usurped and falsified Arab security role pushes the Arab imagination to search for the real equivalent on the ground in the entrenched resistance of the Palestinian people against the occupier, its policies, and its genocidal crimes. The decline of Arab security in front of the Zionist colonizer, making its arm long and its planes roam the Arab skies and drop deadly bombs on their cities, remains evident.
But the question that does not puzzle the Arab mind about the army and security of the Arabs is: How long will this Zionist assurance of “Arab gallantry” of the Arab armies continue?
Some incomplete answers lie in betrayed Arab revolutions that tested their armies and security on Arab bodies. Others are preserved in the chests and arms of the resisters to the occupier in Gaza and other Palestinian cities, in the burning Arab conscience despite attempts to extinguish it with Arab gallantry to rescue the occupier. It reminds us of the aggression on the Iraqi Osirak reactor and its destruction in 1981 and the cartoon by Habib Haddad in Al-Mustaqbal magazine back then, where an Arab was asking another about the destination of the occupier’s planes with American AWACS reconnaissance planes bought by Saudi Arabia, and much was said about their advantages in detection and follow-up. The Arab of those days answers with the tongue of today’s Zionists about the planes, “Coming from my brother’s house, going to the neighbor’s house.”
– Palestinian writer and journalist
Source: Arabi 21
