“Atwan”‘s account of the Zionists’ insults to Arab leaders in Cairo.
“Abdul Bari Atwan,” a well-known Palestinian analyst and editor of Rai al-Youm newspaper, referred to the Arab summit in Cairo that was held yesterday in his new editorial for the newspaper and wrote: “Dealing with the rapid reconstruction project of the Gaza Strip and holding an international conference to discuss the necessary budget to implement this project without displacing the people of Gaza, which was mentioned in the final statement of the Arab summit in Cairo, is a good point; but the ladder of priorities inverts and ignores important and crucial issues.” Atwan added: “We will explain further and say that the Zionist regime’s deliberate insult to this summit and all its participants or even those who boycotted this summit is openly seen in the hunger war against the Gaza Strip, with the halting of humanitarian aid to this strip for the past two days, coinciding with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan.” This action by the Zionist regime and its American backer is an open insult to the Arabs and their humiliation, and they are sure that the Arabs will not respond to these insults, as they have done in the past.
The Palestinian writer added: Initial reports from inside the famine-stricken Gaza Strip indicate the increasing concern and fear of death by starvation for 2 million people in this strip, where the occupation regime has closed all crossings to trucks carrying aid to Gaza, the price of basic goods has increased by 200 percent, and the occupation regime is using the weapon of hunger to kill Palestinians, all in front of the ears and eyes of the Arabs who are sitting at luxurious tables. We really do not know how the Arabs can hold these luxurious feasts, while their fasting brothers just a few kilometers away in the Gaza Strip cannot find even a loaf of bread, dates, or water to break their fast.
The article continues: The occupying regime, by using the weapon of starvation against the people of Gaza, is directly challenging the Arab leaders participating in the Cairo summit, and its goal is to provoke and blackmail these Arab rulers and force them to exert pressure on the resistance movements in the Gaza Strip led by Hamas to surrender to the regime’s conditions; namely, extending the first phase of the ceasefire agreement and evading all clauses of the agreement, including the complete withdrawal of the Zionists from the Gaza Strip and a complete cessation of hostilities. (It should be noted that this pressure on Hamas began before the Cairo summit and is still increasing.)
The Arabic-speaking writer noted: If this Arab summit and its participants do not take practical measures to confront this Zionist regime’s bullying and its US support, it will be a stain of shame that carries a heavy price and will embolden the occupying regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue the war of hunger and genocide that has been going on in the occupied Gaza Strip for the past year and a half.
Atwan emphasized: We all have no doubt that all the Arab leaders who participated in the Cairo summit will not fire a single bullet to defend the two million Muslim Arabs in the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian people and hundreds of millions of people from the world’s nations have also been disappointed in making such a request, which is of course a legitimate and moral request; because most Arab rulers have killed themselves and do not have an ounce of courage, dignity, or national and moral responsibility, and they faint if they hear the name of the Gaza resistance.
According to this article, opposing the displacement of the people of the Gaza Strip is a good step, but it is not a heroic act and is not in the framework of defending the people of Gaza. Previously, many non-Muslim Europeans and non-Europeans had opposed and condemned the displacement of the Palestinian people, but Arab leaders oppose the project of displacement of the Palestinians primarily to defend themselves and their own national security.