Editorial Letter

Paralysis of the Arab Will in the Face of Western Policies, Despite their Vital Interests in the Arab World
Editor in Chief


The article addresses the problem of the paralysis of the Arab will in facing Western policies that strongly support Israeli aggression against Gaza, even though the West has significant and fundamental interests in the Arab world. The article confirms that despite the interests of the West and the United States in the Arab world, they do not give weight to the Arabs' positions and interests compared to the weight of Israel. For decades, many Americans and Europeans have viewed Israel and its superiority over the Arab world and its protection as a strategic interest for them, without any consideration for any other Arab ally.
Despite the West's claim that the Arabs are its allies, the translation of this claim has clashed for decades, and now, during the Israeli war of genocide in Gaza, with a ruling Western intellectual and conceptual framework and perhaps a profound civilizational one. The essence of these frames of thinking is that the West does not give importance to the Arabs and that Israel is an extension and a tool in the Western colonial project in the region.
The main goal of these policies is to dominate the Arab and Islamic world and prevent any independent civilizational advancement. By the West in this regard, the article means the American administration and the governments of Germany, Britain, France, and Italy in particular, although the West is not one, that Europe is not like the United States, and that there are European powers with diverse doctrines and ideas, some of which converge with Arab thought.
The article deals with the problem of the two intellectual and conceptual frameworks that govern the policies of the American administration and several European governments, which believe that the Arab era should not prevail, that Israel is an essential factor of disintegration in the region, and that the Arab and Islamic governments' possession of power, will, and leadership will be a threatening factor to the colonial Western civilizational hegemony, as well as It will fulfill the Arabs' ambition for civilizational advancement. Moreover, they believe that Israel functionally plays a strategic role in preventing the unity of the Arab region, as they look for civilizational hegemony over the area, which is located in the heart of the three continents of the ancient world (Asia et al.), guarantees Western colonial control intellectually, politically, and security-wise, and economically.
The article believes that calling in aircraft carriers, submarines, and warships and operating the air bridge to supply Israel with lethal weapons will confront the successful attempt of the Palestinian resistance to cause a psychological earthquake in the Israeli military and political security establishment on October 7, 2023. The US and some EU states' strategy is based on what the West considers that the growth of the resistance movement militarily and security to this degree means that the brutal, functional state of Israel faces a real strategic threat in the medium and long term.
The article highlights that the attempts made by Arab and Islamic countries to persuade the United States and some Western nations to stop the war on the Gaza Strip have been unsuccessful for six months. The ignorance displayed by the US towards Arab positions and requirements is because Arab and Islamic governments have failed to take adequate measures against Israel. Such a result has weakened their efforts and turned them into mere appeals. The article argues that non-Arab or Islamic countries did try to take some action, such as severing relations with Israel or threatening to do so. However, they did not go as far as threatening to cut off oil from Western weapons factories that Israel uses or threatening to withdraw or freeze Arab and Islamic investments in the United States and Europe, which are estimated to be worth over two trillion dollars.
Such analysis indicates the extent of paralysis in the Arab will and even the surrender to the United States to lead the international position while it is leading the battle at the same time. In addition, some Arab governments banned all forms of expression of solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, just as all Arab and Islamic countries could not (57 countries) provide humanitarian and medical aid to the people of Gaza, except for a limited number of states.
The article emphasizes that the Arab and Islamic ruling elites must use their will and sovereignty, unite with their peoples and living forces, and take positions and measures in support of the Palestinian people to break the thorn of Zionist colonial thought that was imposed on the nation's silence over massacres. It is time to act as such. Otherwise, things rush to form policies that paralyze the will of the ruling elites, an incubator for factors of Chaos, instability, and the rise of people in a new wave of Arab Spring, which might create the dynamics of change more than ever and more robust than in the previous two waves of 2011 and 2019.

Keywords: The ruling elites, the Arab world, the United States, Israel, the spring, the war on Gaza

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