Who draws the Arab future?
Foreign interference in most Arab countries is at its highest point since the so called ‘Arab Spring’ started. The fuel of Arab-Arab wars is the Arab youth and money, and its back bone is foreign arms. What decides when such wars start and end, and the way they go, are foreign statements that say so many strange things. Arabs fight in their countries and on their land, yet they meet in Western countries to find solutions for their fights through foreign resolutions that start from the United Nations and end with the superpowers which had divided the Arab countries among themselves.
Daesh was found by the West, according to US President Donald Trump who made that acknowledgment during his election campaign that took him to the presidency. Today, Daesh has become the gate through which Western countries enter Arab states. The French foreign minister tells us that ‘liberation’ of Syrian cities will happen within days. Meanwhile, the Turks say they will participate in the liberation process, while the Americans say they have sent their experts to draw the liberation plans.
At the same time, the RussianAmerican dialogue continues away from the Arab presence. The Arab League disappeared from the beginning, and handed the files of Arab struggles to the United Nations. They did that collectively after being divided between superpowers individually. Although we in Kuwait say in popular proverbs that ‘nothing scratches your back better than your nail,’ the Arab reality says otherwise.
If the Arab struggle continues this way, and foreign interferences remain, then Arab rights will be lost between our weakness and the West’s greed. What is required is that we the Arabs should meet again under one umbrella, and have discussions with a futuristic view to draw a future that takes into consideration the margin of tolerated differences and the nature of opposing views in order to draw Arab solutions for Arab events. Our countries do not lack wise men, and our elders do not lack solutions, and their solutions do not lack the possibility of implementation. We must trust ourselves and our abilities away from foreign interference; which will increase the tension of crises and will not draw a future except in foreigners’ interests. —Translated by Kuwait Times