{"article":{"id":256314,"heading":"Arab Spring and the Israeli enemy","author":"Abdulateef Al-Mulhim","created":"2012-10-08 03:34:08","modified":"2013-11-11 01:11:21","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:11:21","article":"

Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967.

The 1967 War lasted only six days. But, these three wars were not the only Arab-Israel confrontations. From the period of 1948 and to this day many confrontations have taken place. Some of them were small clashes and many of them were full-scale battles, but there were no major wars apart from the ones mentioned above. The Arab-Israeli conflict is the most complicated conflict the world ever experienced. On the anniversary of the 1973 War between the Arab and the Israelis, many people in the Arab world are beginning to ask many questions about the past, present and the future with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The questions now are: What was the real cost of these wars to the Arab world and its people. And the harder question that no Arab national wants to ask is: What was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn’t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care and the infrastructures instead of wars? But, the hardest question that no Arab national wants to hear is whether Israel is the real enemy of the Arab world and the Arab people.

I decided to write this article after I saw photos and reports about a starving child in Yemen, a burned ancient Aleppo souk in Syria, the under developed Sinai in Egypt, car bombs in Iraq and the destroyed buildings in Libya. The photos and the reports were shown on the Al-Arabiya network, which is the most watched and respected news outlet in the Middle East.

The common thing among all what I saw is that the destruction and the atrocities are not done by an outside enemy. The starvation, the killings and the destruction in these Arab countries are done by the same hands that are supposed to protect and build the unity of these countries and safeguard the people of these countries. So, the question now is that who is the real enemy of the Arab world?

The Arab world wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and lost tens of thousands of innocent lives fighting Israel, which they considered is their sworn enemy, an enemy whose existence they never recognized. The Arab world has many enemies and Israel should have been at the bottom of the list. The real enemies of the Arab world are corruption, lack of good education, lack of good health care, lack of freedom, lack of respect for the human lives and finally, the Arab world had many dictators who used the Arab-Israeli conflict to suppress their own people.

These dictators’ atrocities against their own people are far worse than all the full-scale Arab-Israeli wars.

In the past, we have talked about why some Israeli soldiers attack and mistreat Palestinians. Also, we saw Israeli planes and tanks attack various Arab countries. But, do these attacks match the current atrocities being committed by some Arab states against their own people.

In Syria, the atrocities are beyond anybody’s imaginations? And, isn’t the Iraqis are the ones who are destroying their own country? Wasn’t it Tunisia’s dictator who was able to steal 13 billion dollars from the poor Tunisians? And how can a child starve in Yemen if their land is the most fertile land in the world? Why would Iraqi brains leave Iraq in a country that makes 110 billion dollars from oil export? Why do the Lebanese fail to govern one of the tiniest countries in the world? And what made the Arab states start sinking into chaos?

On May 14, 1948 the state of Israel was declared. And just one day after that, on May 15, 1948 the Arabs declared war on Israel to get back Palestine. The war ended on March 10, 1949. It lasted for nine months, three weeks and two days. The Arabs lost the war and called this war Nakbah (catastrophic war). The Arabs gained nothing and thousands of Palestinians became refugees.

And on 1967, the Arabs led by Egypt under the rule of Gamal Abdul Nasser, went in war with Israel and lost more Palestinian land and made more Palestinian refugees who are now on the mercy of the countries that host them. The Arabs called this war Naksah (upset). The Arabs never admitted defeat in both wars and the Palestinian cause got more complicated. And now, with the never ending Arab Spring, the Arab world has no time for the Palestinians refugees or Palestinian cause, because many Arabs are refugees themselves and under constant attacks from their own forces. Syrians are leaving their own country, not because of the Israeli planes dropping bombs on them. It is the Syrian Air Force which is dropping the bombs. And now, Iraqi Arab Muslims, most intelligent brains, are leaving Iraq for the est. In Yemen, the world’s saddest human tragedy play is being written by the Yemenis. In Egypt, the people in Sinai are forgotten.

Finally, if many of the Arab states are in such disarray, then what happened to the Arabs’ sworn enemy (Israel)? Israel now has the most advanced research facilities, top universities and advanced infrastructure. Many Arabs don’t know that the life expectancy of the Palestinians living in Israel is far longer than many Arab states and they enjoy far better political and social freedom than many of their Arab brothers. Even the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip enjoy more political and social rights than some places in the Arab World. Wasn’t one of the judges who sent a former Israeli president to jail is an Israeli-Palestinian?

The Arab Spring showed the world that the Palestinians are happier and in better situation than their Arab brothers who fought to liberate them from the Israelis. Now, it is time to stop the hatred and wars and start to create better living conditions for the future Arab generations.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/arab-spring-and-israeli-enemy","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The Arab Spring showed the world that the Palestinians are happier and in better situation than their Arab brothers who fought to liberate them from the Israelis. Now, it is time to stop the hatred and wars and start to create better living conditions for the future Arab generations.","numcomment":10,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/10\/256314.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":256320,"heading":"they just keep coming","article":"When one reads something like the previous piece of blatant propaganda it cause me to want to puke but instead, let me again, insert some commentary into just this selected portion of the article. \r\n***\r\nBut, do these attacks match the current atrocities being committed by some Arab states against their own people. \r\nIn Syria, the atrocities [ ***compliments of the al-\r\nCIA-duh, NATO terrorists that were sent in to destabilize the country*** ] are beyond anybody\u2019s imaginations? And, isn\u2019t the Iraqis are the ones who are destroying their own country? [ ***after the invasion of western forces who were sending agents disguised as 'Arabs' to blow up Masques, bomb police stations and commit general murder and torture*** ] Wasn\u2019t it Tunisia\u2019s dictator [ ***whom were also supported by western powers*** ]who was able to steal 13 billion dollars from the poor Tunisians? And how can a child starve in Yemen [ ***in another western backed 'kingdom' where the farmers were driven off of their land*** ]if their land is the most fertile land in the world? Why would Iraqi brains leave Iraq [ ***maybe to keep from being assassinated by israeli Mossad operatives like they've been doing for years*** ] in a country that makes 110 billion dollars from oil export? Why do the Lebanese fail to govern one of the tiniest countries [ ***I can't believe that after repeated invasions and massacres by israel, that the question is even asked by these incredible liars and hypocrites*** ] in the world? And what made the Arab states start sinking into chaos? \r\n[ gee... that's a hard one, huh? ]","author":"again","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-10-08 08:06:29","modified":"2013-11-11 01:11:21","fileurl":""},{"id":256335,"heading":"let me say this about that","article":"okay, since this is going to have a responder, a little more on this prop piece. I'll just add a bit of salt to this goulash of pitiful, shallow and infested with sloganeering dreck.\r\n***\r\n-The Arab world wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and lost tens of thousands of innocent lives fighting {* defending themselves from the many incursions attacks and outright wars of israeli aggression* } Israel, which they considered is their sworn {* I'd swear too if my family was massacred, or driven out of my home *} enemy, an enemy whose existence they never recognized { *kinda like Israeli has never recognized any borders; its own or others' * }. The Arab world has many enemies and Israel should have been at the bottom of the list. {* if you were a blind deaf and dumb moron without any self preservation instincts *} The real enemies of the Arab world are corruption, lack of good education, lack of good health care, lack of freedom, lack of respect for the human lives {* but these are western icons of success ! *} and finally, the Arab world had many dictators { western backed of course, to retain control of these client regimes *} who used the Arab-Israeli conflict to suppress their own people.\r\n{* isn't that what it's all about, anyway? *}\r\nThese dictators\u2019 atrocities against their own people are far worse than all the full-scale Arab-Israeli wars. {* see above 'insertion' *}\r\nIn the past, we have talked about why some Israeli soldiers attack and mistreat Palestinians. {* I thought it was a national pastime and sport *} Also, we saw Israeli planes and tanks attack various { * " various" ...how about all of its neighbors *} Arab countries. But, do these attacks match the current atrocities being committed by some Arab states against their own people. \r\n{ * which israeli sixth grader wrote this essay? *}","author":"great Cod","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-10-09 12:51:31","modified":"2013-11-11 01:11:21","fileurl":""},{"id":256341,"heading":"infested with sloganeering dreck","article":"Well, it told the truth, how about that?","author":"laughing man","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-10-09 13:16:25","modified":"2012-10-09 13:16:25","fileurl":""},{"id":256343,"heading":"yep, the summit of hypocrisy","article":"Of course it was Yada's retarded son who wrote this from the half-way house for psychopathic, lying zionist losers.","author":"knew it","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-10-09 13:25:19","modified":"2012-10-09 13:25:19","fileurl":""},{"id":256389,"heading":"Corruption, dictators the enemy, not Israel","article":"An article by a Saudi journalist challenging the conventional wisdom in the Arab world \u2013 in particular the view of Israel as the root of the region\u2019s problems \u2013 is enjoying skyrocketing popularity online and sparking debate about the Arab Spring. \r\n\r\nUnder the headline \u201cArab Spring and the Israeli enemy,\u201d the writer used the occasion of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to wonder aloud about the resources spent on war, in particular the War of Independence in 1948 and the Six Day War in 1967. \r\n\r\n\u201cWhat was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn\u2019t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care and the infrastructures instead of wars?\u201d asked Abdulateef al-Mulhim in the Arab News, a Saudi Arabian newspaper in English whose website \u201cgets hundreds of thousands of hits every day\u201d from around the world, according to the paper\u2019s site. \r\n\r\n\u201cBut, the hardest question that no Arab national wants to hear is whether Israel is the real enemy of the Arab world and the Arab people,\u201d wrote al-Mulhim. \r\n\r\n\u201cI decided to write this article after I saw photos and reports about a starving child in Yemen, a burned ancient Aleppo souk in Syria, the underdeveloped Sinai in Egypt, car bombs in Iraq and the destroyed buildings in Libya. The photos and the reports were shown on the Al-Arabiya network, which is the most watched and respected news outlet in the Middle East,\u201d he wrote. \r\n\r\n\u201cThe common thing among all what I saw is that the destruction and the atrocities are not done by an outside enemy. The starvation, the killings and the destruction in these Arab countries are done by the same hands that are supposed to protect and build the unity of these countries and safeguard the people of these countries. So, the question now is that who is the real enemy of the Arab world?\u201d he asked. \r\n\r\nAl-Mulhim continued later in the column: \u201cThe real enemies of the Arab world are corruption, lack of good education, lack of good health care, lack of freedom, lack of respect for the human lives and finally, the Arab world had many dictators who used the Arab-Israeli conflict to suppress their own people.\u201d \r\n\r\n\u201cThese dictators\u2019 atrocities against their own people are far worse than all the full-scale Arab- Israeli wars,\u201d he added, pointing out the mistreatment of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, but delineating equally outrageous events in the region, from the devastating war in Syria to the upheaval in Iraq, the corruption in Tunisia that allowed the former president \u201cto steal $13 billion from the poor Tunisians.\u201d \r\n\r\nAl-Mulhim then called on Arab countries to stop blaming Israel for their woes and concluded, \u201cNow, it is time to stop the wars and start to create better living conditions for the future Arab generations.\u201d \r\n\r\nThe article has been shared widely around social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter, and has been republished in several other newspapers since it was published on the Arab News website on October 6. Tim Marshall, a British journalist with Sky News, shared the link in his Twitter Feed and added: \u201cIf there were more like this guy \u2013 fewer people would die.\u201d \r\n \r\n","author":"Alex","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-10-11 15:35:23","modified":"2013-11-11 01:11:22","fileurl":""},{"id":256396,"heading":"tireless jackals","article":"This is fun. Some more reality insertions to the previous israeli wank.\r\n\r\nAn article by a Saudi journalist challenging the conventional wisdom in the Arab world \u2013 in particular the view of Israel as the root of the region\u2019s problems \u2013 is enjoying skyrocketing popularity online and sparking debate about the Arab Spring. \r\n{ ahhh, Saudi Arabia, a client regime of the U.S. ]\r\n\r\nUnder the headline \u201cArab Spring and the Israeli enemy,\u201d the writer used the occasion of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to wonder aloud about the resources spent on war, in particular the War of Independence in 1948 and the Six Day War in 1967. \r\n\r\n\u201cWhat was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn\u2019t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care and the infrastructures instead of wars?\u201d \r\n{ maybe because the 'Arab' states saw the unbridled aggression and brutal nature of the zionist colonial enterprise ]\r\nasked Abdulateef al-Mulhim in the Arab News, a Saudi Arabian \r\n[ again, a client western asset ]\r\nnewspaper in English whose website \u201cgets hundreds of thousands of hits every day\u201d from around the world, according to the paper\u2019s site. \r\n\r\n\u201cBut, the hardest question that no Arab national wants to hear is whether Israel is the real enemy of the Arab world and the Arab people,\u201d wrote al-Mulhim. \r\n[ are you totally numb? Each and every neighbor of this racist state has been assaulted by this mad dog military ]\r\n\u201cI decided to write this article after I saw photos and reports about a starving child in Yemen \r\n[ sure, point your fingers at others who are also under attack by western interests ]\r\n, a burned ancient Aleppo [ by western NATO and al-CIAduh terrorists ]\r\n souk in Syria, the underdeveloped Sinai [ which has israel salivating over its revenue from the Suez channel ]\r\n in Egypt, car bombs in Iraq\r\n[ from western insurgents dusguised as 'Arabs' who commit terrorism ]\r\n and the destroyed buildings in Libya. \r\n[ again from the NATO and western funded al-CIAduh terrorism ]\r\n The photos and the reports were shown on the Al-Arabiya \r\n[ another CIA asset ]\r\n network, which is the most watched and respected news outlet in the Middle East,\u201d ","author":"Ferg","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-10-11 17:53:38","modified":"2013-11-11 01:11:22","fileurl":""},{"id":256397,"heading":"we aim to please","article":"You aim too, please!!!!","author":"helpful person","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2012-10-11 18:04:09","modified":"2012-10-11 18:04:09","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2012\/10\/corrie_urinal.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2012\/10\/corrie_urinal.jpg"}},{"id":256398,"heading":"ahh, yes","article":"Our resident , psychopathic, zionist spook must [ and I mean this in a biological perspective ] respond in its own pathological fashion. Having run into its own wall of empty excuses for the vicious brutality of the rat israeli state, it must inject its own pathology. \r\nIsrael is ts own worst enemy. As we can all see by the psychotic adherents which defend it. { scroll back and see for yourself. }","author":"The Greenflies of War","parent_id":256314,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2012-10-11 18:56:08","modified":"2012-10-11 18:56:08","fileurl":""}]}