About the tops of the Arab bottom

The Arab summits have remained a clear expression of the extent of the official Arab impotence, and the extent to which the current model of the Arab state has reached in terms of weakness and flabbiness, and the loss of the ability to express the aspirations, hopes, ambitions, and yearning of its peoples for a free and dignified life. This has made the convening of such summits more like a routine protocol that has no value in the reality of these peoples who have lost hope in anything official Arab, and there has become a vast gap between the Arab citizen and the ruler.

For all this, any Arab summit that is held has become meaningless and represents nothing to the ordinary Arab citizen from the ocean to the Gulf, who has stopped believing in any official matter, which increases the huge gap between the bottom of the Arab world, where its citizens are, and its official summits that express the bottom of the collapse that the state of the entire Arab world has reached.

The issue today is not related in any way to expressing the state of frustration, helplessness and failure that has become the master of the Arab situation, and how the Gaza war has drawn the map of the Arab conscience, feelings, ambitions and accumulated disappointments. Rather, it is related to the importance of a clear and frank expression of this abnormal Arab state that will bring forth future generations, and they will have an accurate vision of this Arab moment that their fathers and grandfathers lived under regimes, one of the most important functions of which is how to freeze the feelings of the Arab citizen and dry up any trace of dignity in his conscience and feelings and keep him as a dull being devoid of feelings and emotions and robbed of will.

The state of atrophy and decline in Arab feelings of solidarity and brotherhood, as well as abstract human feelings, and the loss of this Arab citizen, even in light of this open communication space for any ability to speak and express his feelings, has become frightening, and reflects the extent to which the wild Arab personality that rejects injustice and oppression has been domesticated, and forced to live with sins, and deprived of its ability to express what is raging in its feelings towards what is happening in Gaza from a war of extermination for more than a year in light of complete Arab silence and failure.

Therefore, what these Arab summits are doing is dangerous, as their routine convening, without real decisions, reflects a state of normalization with the reality of the genocide and war that Gaza is being subjected to, and then Lebanon recently, which is a war of genocide, especially in Gaza due to its long duration. Hence, the danger of calling for the summit and coming out with a statement that has no practical value, is that it reflects the state of weakness and fragility that the entire Arab and Islamic nation is going through, and its complete normalization with the reality of the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, who have been left to face their fate alone.

The catastrophe today is not in the separation of the ruling Arab elites from their reality, but in the general and frightening state of popular schizophrenia and the normalization of these Arab masses from the ocean to the Gulf with the reality of blood, limbs, hunger, fear and destruction that Gaza is experiencing. The state of normalization and familiarity with this scene is more painful than the state of Arab elite weakness, which is understood in its context as a kind of performance by these elites of the duty that the West unfortunately requires of them to perform.

The silence that prevails over the general Arab scene, from the bottom to the top, is the most dangerous thing for this nation to lose its dignity, with its normalization with this state of loss of dignity, which makes everyone forget and normalize with the reality of this sent image, through which the Arab mentality is intended to be forced to accept it as a reality and an inevitable matter, and a natural result for everyone who tries to triumph for his dignity, land, homeland, freedom, and right to a free and dignified life.

This statement is not an injustice to the worst reality, as reality itself has begun to express itself without requiring us to muster any language or vocabulary that may be less capable of describing our current reality, we Arabs, the bad and humiliating reality that all the free people in the world have come out to reject and condemn, while the Arab world is in a strange slumber, from the bottom to the top.

For all of this, the most eloquent thing that these summits and statements can offer us is that they are an accurate expression not only of the state of the ruling elites, but also an accurate expression by those in charge of these summits of the reality of the peoples as well, peoples who have lost even the ability to denounce and the ability to suffer from what is happening to their brothers in Gaza, Lebanon, and elsewhere. This bad reality has become shaped by the trivialities of politicians, their inability, failure, and betrayal of everything, including the betrayal of their consciences above all else as human beings who are supposed to possess living human consciences that can at least denounce the war of extermination that is taking place against a besieged, defenseless people who have been let down by everyone.

It is true that Gaza was destroyed, and massacres and genocide were committed against its people. Despite all of this, it stood firm and accepted what had happened to it and faced its fate with pride, dignity and honor. It stood firm in the face of the set of goals that the Zionist occupation army announced it would ignite the party against Gaza for, and none of these goals were achieved, despite the extent of the losses that Gaza, Hamas and its leadership suffered. This necessitates that everyone save themselves through Gaza’s steadfastness and stopping the unjust war against it, so that Gaza’s steadfastness will represent a lifeline for the region from what awaits it, if this war continues for a long time without stopping it at this level.

*Quoted from Al-Araby Al-Jadeed