Apart from Zionist and Western regimes, Gulf’s autocrats are equally complicit in the genocide of Palestinian people. Hamas mounted the October 2023 attack to forestall Arab rulers treachery of establishing diplomatic and trade ties with the Zionist regime. UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco had already recognized illegitimate state of Israel in the run-up to US presidential elections of 2020, and it appeared likely the rest of Gulf Arab States would follow suit, thus burying the dream of independent Palestine.
Iran is the only Islamic military power capable of
confronting the Zionist regime and lending moral and material support to
Palestinian people, an unforgivable crime for which it is being punished by
Israel’s relentless bombing campaign on behalf of Western regimes and Gulf’s
autocrats, while the rest of Arab countries ruled by Western proxies are hand
in glove with neocolonial powers despite pretending to sympathize with the Palestinian
resistance.
The traitors to the Palestine cause are throwing parties in
their lavish palaces and cheering Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran, but they
don’t appear to have a slightest possible clue regarding the magnitude of
danger hovering above their heads. It appears unsavory repeating threats ad
nauseam, but if push comes to shove, the unrepresentative tyrants of the Arab
World will fall like dominoes. You’ve been warned, time and again. Put a leash
on your attack dog, lest it gets rabid, if it isn’t already.
Back in the heyday of Arab nationalism and non-aligned
movement, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia imposed an oil embargo against Western
patrons of Zionist regime. The 1973 collective Arab oil embargo against the
West following the Arab-Israel War lasted only for a short span of six months
during which the price of oil quadrupled, but Washington became so paranoid
after the embargo that it put in place a ban on the export of crude oil outside
the US borders, and began keeping sixty-day stock of reserve fuel for strategic
and military needs dubbed the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
Furthermore, the Carter Doctrine of 1980 was proclaimed
after the embargo, which states: “Let our position be absolutely clear: an
attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be
regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America,
and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military
force.”
For the heinous crime of imposing oil embargo, King Faisal
was treacherously assassinated in 1975 by his own greedy brethren. Ever since
then, Saudi Arabia and the rest of Gulf States have been ruled by imperial
stooges. The new generation of Gulf’s autocrats, including Mohammad bin Salman,
bin Zayed and the rest, has struck a Faustian pact with Western regimes.
In this unholy marriage of convenience, Western regimes
provide security to Gulf’s authoritarian rulers by establishing military bases
across oil-rich Persian Gulf to sustain the tyrannical rule of Gulf’s autocrats,
and in return, Arab petro-sheikhs ensure uninterrupted fuel supply to
industrial powers and invest trillions of dollars in Western economies.
Donald Trump made an official visit to the Gulf States in
mid-May. During the visit, Gulf’s rulers pledged to invest trillions of dollars
in the US economy. What did Gulf’s rulers demand in return? Obviously, they
asked for providing security. What is the single biggest threat to the
illegitimate rule of Gulf’s autocrats? Clearly, it’s Iran’s formidable military
capabilities, a stone’s throw away across the Persian Gulf.
A month before Trump’s visit, Saudi Defense Minister Khalid
bin Salman conveyed a stark warning to Iranian leadership that its time was up.
A month after the visit, on Friday the Thirteenth of June, Israel mounted
Operation Rising Mouse, targeting Iran’s military and civilian installations.
Thus, Israel is in fact doing the “dirty job” of degrading Iran’s military
capabilities on behalf of Gulf’s autocrats.
Born into affluence and luxury and raised in opulent
palaces, the new generation of Gulf’s princelings and oligarchs regards
Palestinian Arabs as an obnoxious liability who want to spoil their cordial
relationship with Western and Zionist masters by pushing the agenda of
independent Palestinian statehood.
Living a jet-set lifestyle, spending vacations in tourism
hubs of Beirut, Istanbul and southern Europe, gambling away millions in casinos
of Monte Carlo and Las Vegas, buying luxury yachts and da Vinci’s artwork
Salvator Mundi costing half a billion dollar on whim and bestowing largesse
upon fawning acolytes across the world, Gulf’s petro-sheikhs look down upon
starving Palestinian Arabs mercilessly slaughtered by Zionist mercenaries as
buzzkill party poopers imploring them to take up arms against Western
benefactors.
Just like privileged Arab ruling elites, the bourgeois
liberal classes of the West too don’t give two hoots about suffering of
Palestinian people. Although Western mainstream media is attempting to
appropriate the Palestine cause by depicting graphic images of Palestinians
being massacred in Gaza to sell news and push liberal agenda, the urbanized
liberals of the West afflicted with scourge of runaway materialism and
compulsive consumerism and busy in their hedonistic lifestyle are indifferent
to the suffering of Palestinian Arabs.
Excluding a handful self-styled progressive moral impostors
having political aspirations, thus duplicitously appropriating all the noble
causes from Palestine and antiwar activism to corporate socialism and
environmentalism, the bulk of urbanized liberal classes has scant interest in
politics, particularly in foreign affairs.
They would keep on voting for Democrats in the US, Labor in
the UK and the rest of establishment liberal parties in Europe and America even
if the Obama and Biden admins turns out to be complicit in the genocide not
only of Palestinians but Arabs and Muslims across the Middle East.
Duplicitous moral posturing of torchbearers of Western
liberalism never ceases to amaze gullible viewers. In the run-up to 2020
presidential elections, Black Lives Matter protests following the killing of
George Floyd were politicized to attract black and Hispanic voters and claim
moral superiority over American conservatives. Then the burning issue of racial
discrimination was swept under the rug during four years of Biden
administration.
Afterwards, in the run-up to last November’s presidential
elections, pro-Palestine demonstrations, comprising a few dozen singing and
dancing hippies, were arranged in the Ivy League Western universities to lure
Muslim diaspora. Despite the fact that during Israel’s year-long assault on
Gaza, the Biden-led Democratic administration generously provided billions of
dollars in military assistance to genocidal Zionists to perpetrate the Gaza
Holocaust.
Despite masquerading as pro-Palestine, progressive moral
impostors regard Israel as the only liberal democracy in otherwise
authoritarian and conservative Arab World. Therefore, my dear progressive
brothers and sisters, stop running with the hare and hunting with the hounds and
reveal your true identity beneath the mask you are wearing.
It’s noteworthy that the bulk of protesters demonstrating Islamic causes, such as the Palestine cause, in the West is exclusively comprised of Muslim diaspora, with only a sprinkling of white Christians. Hamas is the offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, whose gov’t was toppled in July 2013 on instructions of Obama admin as it posed a security threat to Israel, whereas Hezbollah is supported by Iran. In nutshell, only Islamic nationalists, including Islamic Republic of Iran, are sincere with Palestinian liberation movement, the rest is simply moral posturing for political dividends.