How Palestinians were Betrayed by Gulf’s Imperial Stooges

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.