Why are Arabs so powerless when it comes to Israel?

For a terrible 11 days in May, the world watched hellfire rain upon the world’s largest open-air prison camp, otherwise known as Gaza. The dazed, bleeding survivors crawling out of the rubble of collapsed buildings have experienced this before.

Everyone knows this tragedy will repeat. In faraway Arab cities, as well as here in Pakistan, people glumly watched the unhindered, televised bombing by Israeli jets. But the most they could manage was a few toothless resolutions and a few impotent slogan-chanting demonstrations trampling the Israeli flag.

Israel vs Arabs

What makes Israel with 90 lakh people – between one-half and one-third of Karachi’s population – a Goliath of biblical proportions? Equally, notwithstanding their fabulous oil wealth, why are 42.7 crore Arabs the pygmies of international politics? Gulf Cooperation Council Arabs can certainly control what happens in a few miskeen (poor) countries like Pakistan; their leaders can be summoned to Riyadh at a moment’s notice and sent back with sackfuls of rice as wages of obedience. But before Israel – which has almost zero natural resources – Arab kings and sheikhs must perforce bow their heads.

Blame the West if you want and, in particular, America. Indeed, from 2000-2019 armaments supplied to Israel by the Western powers (United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany)…

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