Atwan: US bases are to protect Israel, not Arab countries.
Abdul Bari Atwan, editor of the trans-regional newspaper Rai al-Youm and a well-known Palestinian analyst, dedicated the new editorial of this electronic newspaper to the results of the Doha summit, which was held to examine the Zionist regime’s terrorist attack on Qatari soil and to take a stance against this attack, and wrote: The most important reason for the failure of the Arab-Islamic summit in Qatar, which was held with the presence of nearly 57 kings, presidents, and heads of Arab and Islamic countries on how to respond to Israel’s aggression against the host country, is that the Zionist aggressor and occupying regime launched an all-out attack on the Gaza Strip to occupy it at the same time as the Doha summit, and targeted the port of Hodeidah in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on Tuesday afternoon.
The weak position of the Arab countries makes the Zionists more arrogant
Abdul Bari Atwan added: The final statement of the Doha summit was much worse and weaker than what many, including myself, expected. The statement lacked a firm stance and referred to the regime that carried out the aggression with great fear and trembling. This weak stance not only emboldens the aggressor to repeat its attacks, but it may also lead to these aggressions being repeated with greater speed and more dangerously in the absence of any intention to deter them.
The Palestinian analyst emphasized: What leads us to this conclusion are the repeated statements of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who hurriedly flew to Tel Aviv and, in a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced the full support of the US for Israel in a massive military attack to occupy the Gaza Strip and achieve all its desired goals, especially the destruction of Hamas and the displacement of two and a half million Gaza residents if they survive in the midst of a genocidal war and starvation against the Strip.
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The article continues: What makes us more certain of the truth of our statements is that the United States and its President Donald Trump not only knew about the Israeli aggression against Qatar in advance, but were themselves complicit in this aggression, and all claims that Trump was unaware of the Zionist aggression against Doha were lies and deception. The aggression was planned months ago and targeted a country that hosts the largest US military base in the Middle East (Al-Udeid base). Qatar is also classified as a NATO ally and is Washington’s closest friend among Arab countries.