{"id":39233,"date":"2025-07-17T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39233"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:43:51","slug":"ink-vs-missiles-when-will-arab-words-match-israeli-warplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=39233","title":{"rendered":"INK vs. MISSILES: When Will Arab Words Match Israeli Warplanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ashraf-AboArafe-\u0623\u0634\u0631\u0641-\u0623\u0628\u0648-\u0639\u0631\u064a\u0641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ashraf-AboArafe-\u0623\u0634\u0631\u0641-\u0623\u0628\u0648-\u0639\u0631\u064a\u0641-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ashraf-AboArafe-\u0623\u0634\u0631\u0641-\u0623\u0628\u0648-\u0639\u0631\u064a\u0641-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Ashraf-AboArafe-\u0623\u0634\u0631\u0641-\u0623\u0628\u0648-\u0639\u0631\u064a\u0641.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>Chief editor wonders!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span>s <strong>Israeli jets race to bomb Sweida<\/strong> and missiles rain down on Gaza, <strong>Arab foreign ministers race to issue &#8220;strongly worded statements&#8221;&#8230; that shake neither planes nor consciences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a joint communiqu\u00e9 that stretched across two days, the foreign ministers of 12 Arab countries \u2013 including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon \u2013 held extensive talks on the situation in Syria. They reaffirmed their <strong>&#8220;unwavering commitment to Syria\u2019s unity, security, and sovereignty&#8221; and rejected &#8220;all foreign interference&#8221;&#8230; except, it seems, for those airstrikes descending from Tel Aviv.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement, adorned with diplomatic niceties like <strong>&#8220;welcoming the Sweida crisis resolution,&#8221;<\/strong> a pledge to &#8220;hold violators accountable,&#8221; and calls to &#8220;reject sectarianism,&#8221; did manage to denounce \u2013 in all the ink they could muster \u2013 the <strong>&#8220;repeated Israeli attacks on Syria,&#8221; labeling them a &#8220;flagrant violation of international law&#8221;&#8230; and then? Nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As for <strong>Gaza \u2013 burning, suffocating, and burying its people alive beneath rubble \u2013<\/strong> not even a courtesy paragraph or a side mention was offered. <strong>Apparently, &#8220;genocide&#8221; is still too heavy a term for the Arab diplomatic thesaurus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">And so, the Arab citizen \u2013 now more versed in diplomatic rhetoric than his own ministers \u2013 wonders aloud:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>When will statements of condemnation translate into military response \u2013 if not to surpass the aggression, at least to match it?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>When will &#8220;Arab national security&#8221; become more than a summit slogan?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And when will words like &#8220;sovereignty,&#8221; &#8220;unity,&#8221; and &#8220;stability&#8221; leap off the page and onto the ground?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Until then, <strong>the Arab statement remains a loyal guardian of paper dignity,<\/strong> while land and blood are violated daily, <strong>in the name of international law&#8230; conveniently absent.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief editor wonders! As Israeli jets race to bomb Sweida and missiles rain down on Gaza, Arab foreign ministers race to issue &#8220;strongly worded statements&#8221;&#8230; that shake neither planes nor consciences. In a joint communiqu\u00e9 that stretched across two days, the foreign ministers of 12 Arab countries \u2013 including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,388],"tags":[2955,11427,5819,8463,14908,3589,21060,2726,1764,6214],"class_list":["post-39233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editor","category-slide","tag-arab","tag-ink","tag-israeli","tag-match","tag-missiles","tag-vs","tag-warplanes","tag-when","tag-will","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39235,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233\/revisions\/39235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}