Dear: The bull gives no milk… [Archives:2006/939/Opinion]

Atif Awad
Each time the nation turns hopefully towards the Arab League; they face with the Egyptian proverb as it extends over all Arab lands saying: “I tell you that it is a bull and you insist on milking it.”

The truth is the Arab League needs major reconstruction. This isn't an author's attitude coming from national Arab instituions. Nor is it part of the hidden intrigue against Arab unity, as it is represented by the Arab League, home that brings all Arabs together. Its truth that doesn't tolerate falsifying. Simply said this political instituition needs an overhall. This re-construction should be based on Arab objectives, not on the basis for which it was originally founded.

The foundation upon which the League was established in the mid-forties has remained the same to this day. the Arab nation and its people were not the beneficiaries when the League was founded. An it is the futile hopes and desires of Arabs still looking to the League for results that stimulates and actively this Egyptian proverb.

Like the Seizeif absurdity of the room suspended in its mountain summit, so does the Arab individual remain suspended with his hopes awaiting the next summit. He hopes for the day when this Arab League, as an institution, can remove the grief dominating the Arab nation. Nevertheless, for the sake of this absurdity let us ha a quick glance at the conditions of the birth and establishment of the Arab League. We do this so it isn't just an emotion, a pretense or the craziness attached to the enemies of the nation and its institutions, even when it prevents the Arab from taking the bull's milk and feeding upon it.

Great Britain, with its lion's share over Arab territory, alongside France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Turkey; were the powers that have dominated the world in the last century. They are the same powers that have shaped the Arabs according to a framework that suits the objectives of theses international forces and their empires. The Arabs had no other alternative that to implement.

The controversy generated by the conflict between these powers results, at the beginning of the last century, in the evolution of two major powers. The Arab region and its people are directly affected by these influential and impacting changes. The first to top the list is the Great Arab Revolution led by Sharief Hussein and his sons. Subsequent events during both World Wars would bring France and Britain to adopt the Arabic structure of the “Arab League”.

The first of these events would be the Belfor's Promise given by Britain to colonial European forces. The second would be the Sykes-Picot Agreement that would impose geographical an populace changes on the Arab map with the addition of the creation of the Jewish agency. Beyond this and other factors inspired by these colonial Zionist forces, Britain also pushed to form an Arabic entity from within ist Arabic claok. This entity was meant to guard British plans and her colonial, Zionist and capitalist alliances which Briatin used to tower and dominate over the Arab region. The “Arab League” as an entity was supported by Britain on the condition that is should achieve the following:

– Support Arab regimes created on the geo-political map, in order to protect the Zionist entity formerly agreed upon.

– To use Arab League leader's, with tricks, shrewdness, and duplicity to frustrate the plans of all those who stood in the face of British and Zionist colonial forces in the Arab region.

-Using wealth, Fatwa and men to counter any emerging Arab leader who tried to divert the Arab League, with its summits and institutions, in the direction of good for its Arab People and its nation, and tried to divert this structure from the course for which it was created.

America, the new imperial force, inherited the Old Lion's files. It became the only inherent power of the Arabian nations contained in the collapsing British files. Following the collapse of its Socialist rival pole at the end of the previous century, America becomes the only international pole, the Hegemon.

Because the Arab League was one of the important files; America did not keep this file outside the reach of its objectives, especially at the beginning of this century. It stood overtly, severly, and flagrantly behind the objectives of the Zionist forces.

In light of all that has been mentioned, was there any concern in the Arab League, for its conferences and functions to be about the people of this nation?

What was the concern it showed when it was supposed to deal with the occupation of Iraq to Kuwait? Or what concern had it shown when its meetings were suspended for ten years? What concern had it shown when the Americans invaded Baghdad? Did it even show concern when Sharon imprisoned Yasser Arafat in a room within his offices so that he could not attend the Beirut summit? Isn't it queer that the Arabs and the Arab league in this summit flattered Sharon, by offering him a treaty, which he disgracefully ignored?Has the Arab strategic option, with its recommendations and resolutions been any different from the Americana – Zionist desire to maintain the assignment already laid out for this institution?

I ask the same question again: Does an ox give birth, and can it be milked?

Atif Awad is an Egyptian journalist and short story writer residing in Yemen.
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