Summit in Doha and the new Arab axis
The Arab summit is the perfect place to uncover the political affiliations of the countries in the region. The endless conflicts plaguing the summits drain the abilities of these states and also confuse agendas and the Arabs get nothing but more conflicts.
In the Baghdad summit in 1990, President Saddam Hussein boasted of his victory against Iran and explained his superiority over other Arab leaders. But he also stage-managed the plan to conquer Kuwait inside the very summit with the help of other four Arab allies. Three months later, another summit was conducted in Egypt to kick him out of Kuwait and it authorized the intervention of US forces.
In Beirut in 2002, the Damascus axis allied against Yasser Arafat and locked him inside his office in Ramallah. They even tried to prevent him from giving his speech through satellite TV channels.
In three successive years, the same axis waged a war against Riyadh in three summits. The axis countries could control their own summits in Damascus, Doha and Sirte of Libya. Arabs were then spilt into two fighting camps. These were politically unstable years.
It is not a surprise that these summits are just a reflection of our problems as they represent helpless Arab governments.
Those who listened to the speeches delivered last night in Doha summit recognize the same old nexus in all previous summits.
Muhammad Mursi, for example, threw his paper down and kept warning over and over against interfering in his country’s internal affairs.
We are expecting an impending crisis apart from the fact that formation of a caretaker Syrian government headed by someone we never heard of was rushed through. This is also part of the kind of conspiracies that do no any favors but rather distract us from the major causes. Just like what happened in the summit that blocked Rafik Al-Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, and the summit that defended his assassination.
As a matter of fact, the first Arab summit that took place in Anshas, Egypt in 1946, was also a conspiracy by seven Arab states.
It is also possible that this first summit was arranged by Gen. Clayton, the then chief of British Army Intelligence, and Briance, associate director of British intelligence in Palestine. This possibility is promoted by Arab countries that were not invited to the summit. But for the record, it was the summit where Palestine was recognized as a state for the first time and made it an Arab cause.
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