By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

 

We are not sure whether Doha will summon up the courage to ask Zionist allies, the US and the UK, to withdraw their useless or more properly treacherous troops for not just silently watching Israel to attack Qatar, but collaborating with the aggressor by providing precise location of the targeted building and refueling the aircraft in midair for the return flight to Occupied Palestine – again over the airspace of Saudi Arabia, which also has American military bases for ‘protection’.

Qatar says it has the right to retaliate Israel’s dastardly bombing, as Muslim countries condemned the violation of its sovereignty and pledged solidarity with it, but without any promise to mount a coordinated attack on the illegitimate Zionist entity for its unabated crimes against humanity, including the genocide in Gaza.

It remains to be seen how Doha will militarily respond in the absence of any long range projectiles of its own or the impotence to challenge the Zionist enemy of the other five members of the 6-nation Persian Gulf Cooperative Council (PGCC), which only knows that joint security means serving the US by regularly reciting the ‘mantra’ of the UAE’s illegal claim to three of Iran’s islands.

Interestingly the PGCC was established in the early 1980s with US blessings during the midst of the 8-year American war against Iran through Saddam of the repressive Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad, by portraying the Islamic Republic as a threat to regional security.

If only our Arab neighbours were to distinguish friends from foes on the basis of the Islamic ties which all of us share.

If they hadn’t invited the treacherous US – the bosom pal of the archenemy of Arabs and Muslims (Israel) – and placed their wealth and all they possessed at the disposal of Washington.

If the Persian Gulf states had used their brains to determine that Iran had no intention to interfere in their affairs and was the safeguard against the designs of the US with firm conviction that Israel should be erased from the map of West Asia.

They did not, and this is the reason for not only the prolonged persecution of the Palestinians that has now turned into an organized genocide in Gaza with active US assistance, but also for the distrust amongst regional states and Israel’s growing impudence as is evident by the recent bombing of the meeting of senior Hamas leaders in Doha (as a trap set up Donald Trump), following the Zionist entity’s criminal aggression on Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.

It is still not too late for Qatar and the other Arab states to ask the US to leave. This is the least they can do for guaranteeing their sovereignty and a token gesture of support for the Palestinian people.