Accountability
The report that the corpse of a 12-year-old girl was left at King Faisal Hospital in Makkah to rot is a disastrous piece of news.
The hospital staff including doctors, nurses, technicians and cleaners left the body for five days in one of the emergency rooms without any care. Were a foul smell did not emanate from the room the rotten body could have remained there for perhaps many more days.
It is unbelievable that it is such a major hospital but with nobody there to take care of a person, alive or dead.
This negligence will not stop unless a decisive accountability is immediately enforced. If the citizens/residents are to be assured that their patients will be given due care at the treating centers, there has to be strict laws to check such negligence.
Hospital staff and cadres have to know that negligence and indifference will not go unnoticed.
We sincerely hope the Ministry of Health will take strict and punitive actions against all such cases of negligence and indifference so that things continue to run on the right track.
— Abdulrahman Al-Orabi, Al-Madinah
GCC-Egypt relations
Those who were upset at the good relations between Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt and at their excellent political, economic and strategic coordination, were expecting differences to crop up and affect the Arab region.
Additionally, those who were upset by the strategic understanding between the three countries are working hard to undermine this cooperation. Sometimes they exploit any situation to hatch a conspiracy against the governments in the three countries.
We must acknowledge that all the Egyptians are not happy with the good relations that Saudi Arabia, UAE and GCC countries enjoy. Some of the Egyptian leftists and Nasserites and even supporters of Anwar Sadat still consider Gulf citizens as inferior and they think that aids and contributions to Egypt from them should be rejected.
On the other hand, there are many people in GCC countries who sympathize with the Muslim brothers in Egypt, and see them as the legitimate leaders.
Such groups in Egypt and the Gulf region are working to undermine the excellent relations between the Gulf and Egypt.
However, their work is not necessarily organized or planned. They might act spontaneously because that is the nature of the Egyptian leftists and Nasserites who have been at loggerheads with the people of Gulf for long years.
At the same time, there can be no sympathy for those who believe that Muslim brothers are “God-fearing people” despite their acts of killing, explosions and terrorist operations against citizens and officers and recruits of the Egyptian armed forces.
— Jasir Al-Jasir, Al-Jazirah
Liberation of Aden
The Middle East region is strategically vital for all the major powers in the world, which mostly try to impose hegemony on it to achieve their interests.
Even some of the countries in the Middle East have similar hegemonic designs, which may go in line or contradict with projects of big powers.
Most of the countries in the region find themselves orbiting around such projects with narrow choices and decisions.
This is what happened to Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries when Iran under its sectarian agenda tried to reach the Kingdom’s southern border after dominating Damascus, Beirut, Baghdad and Sanaa by providing support to Houthi militias intellectually, financially and militarily, to serve the Iranian design and its leaders.
The GCC member countries including Saudi Arabia found no choice but to fight a war with the Houthis militants and the militias loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The aim was to protect the region and fail the Persian sectarian project that sought to dominate the region and wage civil wars by supporting Shiite sects and have them linked together in a network run by (Iran’s) Wilayat Al-Faqih to serve the interests of the Persian hegemony over the Middle East.
King Salman launched the “Decisive Storm” operation at a critical time after forming a coalition with his brothers in the GCC and Arab countries to cut the head of the Persian snake. Thanks to Allah, we are now celebrating two Eids, the first is Eid Al-Fitr and, secondly, the liberation of Aden and the beginning of a series of victories against Houthi-Saleh alliance.
These will bring them back to the negotiating table and adhere to the GCC-brokered peace plan.
Iran is a country plagued by poverty. It rules its people by force, distinguishes between them on sectarian and ethnic basis where non-Persian communities suffer from exclusion and persecution. Furthermore, Iran does not have any holy destination for Muslims as is the case with Saudi Arabia, which hosts the Two Holy Mosques.
However, for the last 30 years, Iran has been working on a project to dominate the Islamic countries by spreading the Shiite ideology, presenting itself as a sponsor of its followers in all Islamic countries, notably in Arab states.
Certainly, our country retains elements of power not possessed by Iran. If we add to this power the strength owned by the GCC countries and other allied countries such as Morocco and Jordan, we can become stronger.
If we manage to attract Yemen to our side, we could become a strong bloc capable of starting a cultural-developmental project that will enhance security, stability and accelerate growth for the people of the region, including the Iranians.
— Abdulaziz Al-Ghadir, Al-Eqtisadiah
Al-Maliki exposed!
If Nuri Al-Maliki can say that Saudi Arabia is a “sponsor and supporter of terrorism” on a TV channel he is funding, we would like to say that Al-Maliki is the biggest sponsor of state terrorism in the world.
Once Al-Maliki has opened this issue, let us further open it because we do not have anything to be ashamed of. Since its foundation, the Kingdom has never remained a colonial state and never tried to impose its control or use its influence except for peace in the world.
Today, the whole world is witnessing the tragedy of the Iraqi people against whom Al-Maliki directed his massive weaponry instead of directing it to the Safawi enemies who are occupying Iraq.
We wish Al-Maliki would have kept silent over his acts. He has disrespected his country to serve his personal ends, and to cover up his shameful acts he is accusing others and raising finger at the Kingdom. It is ridiculous.
What has Saudi Arabia done to enrage Al-Maliki? It simply sided with unarmed Syrian brotherly people against a killing regime, but is it a reason to categorize the Kingdom as supporter of terror? Anyway, the mulberry leaf that was covering A-Maliki’s shames has fallen!
— Salih Sabaan, Makkah newspaper
Combined efforts to fight terror
The pre-emptive action by Saudi Arabia that saw the arrest of 431 suspected terrorists, who had formed cluster cells linked to Daesh terror group, deserves appreciation, and which encourages us to devise intellectual plan and develop programs related to it.
According to the Ministry of Interior, the majority of those arrested are Saudis.
This is a dangerous thing that will lead us to open probe at the national level and look into the roots of this destructive phenomenon which is hostile to religion, security, peace and co-existence.
We have to admit that terrorist organizations were not formed overnight and, therefore, their elimination requires security, intellectual and educational efforts based on a national strategy that will entail research and studies to be undertaken by universities and research centers. There are efforts to be made at the intellectual level.Their studies should analyze the intellectual sources of terror, as also how they were spread and misled the minds of youths.
The fight against terror at the intellectual and security levels can be practically achieved through combined efforts of all communal organizations.
They should include corporates and companies which can play an active role in supporting an integrated national project that will, hopefully, fund researches, attract youths into training programs and support cultural and security efforts or, in other words, contribute to protect the nation, enhance security and spread the culture of science, work, construction, solidarity co-existence, dialogue, love and tolerance.
— Yusuf Al-Qiblan, Al-Riyadh
