In an exclusive interview to Mehr News, Saeed al-Shehabi has discussed the reasons for the marginalization of the Palestine issue among the Arab countries. He was attending a summit on Palestinian resistance in Tehran.
How did you find the Conference of Islamic World Scholars in support of Palestinian Resistance?
This conference was an attempt to highlight the Islamic approach and the role of scholars in fighting against the Zionist occupation and defending resistance. Resistance must be the basis for Muslims’ unity, particularly under the current circumstances which the Islamic world has suffered division and dissension as a result of foreign conspiracies and the emergence of extremist movements. The main goal of these conspiracies is to avert the general public attention from the necessity of fighting Israel and its main objectives.
Why the issue of Palestine does not receive enough attention from Arab states?
There has been an unholy alliance between the totalitarian Arab states and the Western countries that possess advanced weapons and security facilities in order to gradually erase the Palestine issue from memory. In this regard, the task of Arab regimes, who are Western allies, is to eliminate the Palestine issue and export oil to the West with low prices and in high quantities. The West, in turn, is committed to protecting the security and sovereignty of these intransigent regimes. Sadly, the consequence of such a policy is nothing but the marginalization of the Palestine issue and the magnification of ethnic and religious differences.
How do you interpret the recent developments in the region, in particular the terrorist attacks on Iraq, Syria and Lebanon?
After it was made known that the Islamic nation is able to resist the occupation and vanquish Israel’s glory, and also with the uprising of people demanding their legitimate freedom, the authoritarian regimes along with the Western countries felt threatened, and subsequently adopted the policy of religious conflicts and attempted to distort the people’s demands and their movements, and to avert the nations’ attention from the main issues, in particular Israel. Sadly, a number of Arab countries have further intensified this dissension by sending out money and weapon and have brainwashed the youth to form armed terrorist groups in the region.
Saeed al-Shehabi is a London-based Bahraini self-exiled political activist and Bahrain Freedom Movement member.
Interview by Mohammad Mazhari
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