Chief editor wonders!
As Israeli jets race to bomb Sweida and missiles rain down on Gaza, Arab foreign ministers race to issue “strongly worded statements”… that shake neither planes nor consciences.
In a joint communiqué that stretched across two days, the foreign ministers of 12 Arab countries – including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon – held extensive talks on the situation in Syria. They reaffirmed their “unwavering commitment to Syria’s unity, security, and sovereignty” and rejected “all foreign interference”… except, it seems, for those airstrikes descending from Tel Aviv.
The statement, adorned with diplomatic niceties like “welcoming the Sweida crisis resolution,” a pledge to “hold violators accountable,” and calls to “reject sectarianism,” did manage to denounce – in all the ink they could muster – the “repeated Israeli attacks on Syria,” labeling them a “flagrant violation of international law”… and then? Nothing.
As for Gaza – burning, suffocating, and burying its people alive beneath rubble – not even a courtesy paragraph or a side mention was offered. Apparently, “genocide” is still too heavy a term for the Arab diplomatic thesaurus.
And so, the Arab citizen – now more versed in diplomatic rhetoric than his own ministers – wonders aloud:
When will statements of condemnation translate into military response – if not to surpass the aggression, at least to match it?
When will “Arab national security” become more than a summit slogan?
And when will words like “sovereignty,” “unity,” and “stability” leap off the page and onto the ground?
Until then, the Arab statement remains a loyal guardian of paper dignity, while land and blood are violated daily, in the name of international law… conveniently absent.
