From Words to Reality: Gap Between Declarations and Battlefield
Over the past 20 months of genocide in Gaza, issuing condemnatory statements has not only failed to deter further atrocities, but has emboldened the Zionists to intensify the massacre. The costly visit of Donald Trump to the region, coinciding with the peak of Tel Aviv's crimes, revealed that the “U.S. initiative to resolve the Palestinian crisis” is nothing more than a mirage; Washington remains complicit in the crimes. Both the Islamic Jihad movement and Hamas have explicitly stated: any decision that does not result in halting the massacre and ensuring the uninterrupted entry of humanitarian aid is “worthless.”
Need for a Unified Arab–Islamic Front
The history of Palestine has shown that resistance rises from the ashes of destroyed homes without relying on external saviors. Yet this truth does not absolve Arab and Islamic countries of their responsibilities. Today, these governments face a difficult test in the court of global public opinion: can their multi-hundred-billion-dollar oil and arms deals become a lever to restrain Israel? The world asks: “If you buy weapons to sell, why not buy them to save lives?”
Pressure Diplomacy: From Sanctions to Reversed Siege
Arab leaders have the power to reverse the siege by imposing immediate economic sanctions, shutting airspace and ports to Zionist goods, and using OPEC’s capacity to reduce exports to Tel Aviv’s supporters. The 1973 oil embargo proves that global markets yield to collective energy will. Measures like these—alongside legal prosecution of Israeli war criminals at The Hague—will exponentially raise the cost of continuing the genocide for both Tel Aviv and Washington.
Strategic Consequences: Gaining Prestige or Losing Legitimacy
Today’s world stands with Palestine—not with political contracts signed behind closed doors. If the Arab–Islamic bloc demonstrates real will at the Baghdad summit to break the Gaza siege and enable the flow of aid, it will reclaim its global role and bring the “Greater Israel” project to an impasse. But continued inaction will erode these nations’ legitimacy, deepen the rift between governments and their people, and open the door to foreign influence. Fulfilling the final communiqué—with its emphasis on the liberation of Palestine—could pave the way for the expulsion of U.S. bases from the region and the dawn of a new era of collective security in West Asia.
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