The Crux of Middle East and Arab Dilemma
Whenever you get involved in a political discussion concerning the question of peace and security in this chaotic world, you will find out that Middle East politics, Islamic and Arab organizations, Islamist groups, Iranian regime and Israel are the crux of any profound argumentation that seek to puzzle out this dilemma. In many parts of the world, there is a common belief that without ensuring peace and stability in the Arab world and Middle East region, the world would never enter into a long-lasting florescence and tranquil state.
Arab supporters and apologists impute the current miserable state of affairs of Arab and Muslim countries to some wicked conspiracy at which they bring in serious accusations against some nations and countries to posit their self-justifications thereof. On the other hand, most nonpartisan and political analysts pin the blame on Arab leaderships, Arab League and Islamic organizations more than blaming the international community, though they hold all accountable for such severe adversities and disarrays.
At large, these two standpoints rest on the same lived through actualities, yet have different case analysis and judgment of Middle East’s knotty issues. Undeniably, the fact remains that there are chronic problems which were not properly addressed neither by Middle Eastern and Islamic countries and their regional organizations, such as the inefficient Arab League and Organization of the Islamic Conference, nor by advanced democratic countries and international organizations, chiefly the UN and its crippled Security Council. Nevertheless, the underlying causes of the existing deplorable scene in the Middle East and Arab world have several compounded and intermixed aspects that have to be reassessed fairly and profoundly in order to figure out long-lasting resolutions.
Among those unsolved pivotal issues, the Middle East region, without exception, suffers degenerating consequences due to the failure of Israeli governments, Arab-Palestinian fronts and the international community to find and impose a durable answer to the most drawn-out armed conflict over land in modern history, and to the unceasing state of belligerency between Arabs and Israelis.
Alongside the Arab-Israeli dilemma, Arab authorities are facing vast domestic and regional challenges of which they became more dependent on the support of foreign powers to uphold their threatened national security, most of which to withstand the increasing hostile interference of the Iranian regime and its Arab Shiite affiliates in the Arab region.
Add on that, Arab governments as well as their respective official religious authorities were infirm to negate or safely ingest Sunni extremist notions and radical movements. Most respected Sunni religious establishments like those of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, for instance, who are supposed to be the frame of reference to all Sunni Islamic doctrines and the pumping heart of religious rationality to 1.40 billion Sunni Muslims, were unable to stand firm against the undercurrent of radicalism and Salafism or to zero the ensuing hot waters therefrom.
On the same off track, Middle East countries,......
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9yIn brief, I lean to believe that there will be no change on the world arena before the incoming U.S presidential election. It may sounds strange, but the fact is that the region is in wait to deal with more potent leadership. I don't see any solutions to what you have above-mentioned problems, while the U.S administration has the worst-ever relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, GCC, and beyond. ISIS will remain to play cat and mouse, destabilization of the region will remain in force until the end of Obama's doctrine, and unfortunately, the once-possible two-state solution is beyond reach now , at least not before having new world leadership.
Senior Research and Advocacy Fellow at University of Minnesota Law School Human Rights Center, Co-Chair of Minnesota Alliance for Sustainable Pension Investment
9yThanks for reposting this, Mohammed. If anything the situation seems to have gotten worse over the past two years. I know there are many people and groups and a few politicians in the US who are committed to working toward solutions but as a country we seem to go from blunder to blunder in the entire region. I am interested in your thoughts about any further steps that you think the US could take regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict and also Syria and also ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. That's no asking too much is it? Best Regards, James