Dr Ibrahim Al SheIkh
Who likes wars? Who among us is attracted to scenes of death and destruction? Who enjoys the smell of blood? And who is delighted with scenes of people being displaced?
The Gulf Arab States were never aggressors in any war in spite of the huge amounts spent on acquiring arms!
Our combined arsenal of weapons, aircrafts and advanced missiles that militarily surpass many countries, were never employed to destroy or kill, or not even used in any offensive war to this day. When I say aggressive, I mean that they never transgressed against anyone.
The Decisive Storm operation is not an offensive war against the Houthis in Yemen. It is against those who are trying to destabilise Yemen.
The Iranian Revolution of 1979, since it started, touts exporting violence, murder and terrorism in order to achieve the Persian expansion in our region.
Iran conducted offensive wars militarily, politically and media wise, down to targeting the region’s identity, through their Fifth Columns, some of which operated openly while others worked secretly.
Throughout the decades, our nations have been dormant about a project designed to threaten our survival.
Because Iran was conducting a clearly defined project, we were surprised that it handed Afghanistan over to America, and even more surprised when it delivered Iraq to America and taking it back!
We blame ourselves for the abandonment of Iraq while looking towards Beirut whose Arab identity has been taken away.
Our countries continued to play “the silence of the graves” game, so Iran, throughout the years after the American occupier was out, was messing around in Iraq by occupying the land, humiliating its people, stealing their identity and conducting its criminal sectarian cleansing.
We barely woke up from the shock of the Iranian occupation of Iraq, to be surprised by the Syrian disaster that stopped our breath.
Iran had openly established its strong presence in the Syrian scene with soldiers and weapons, while our countries have been largely absent from the scene, sufficing themselves to observe and provide humanitarian aid!
Also in that period, Iran thought that the time for the fall of Bahrain has come!
They believed in themselves and plotted day and night to achieve that goal, but they forget that God’s power is stronger.
Back to negligence, our countries finally woke up after the collapse of our fourth capital Sana’a, where people became fed up.
The uprising of the Gulf, Arab and Muslim alliance came lately to stop an invasion that targeted not only its capitals, but also its Omar and Aisha, and even Shia Arabs, either directly or through involving them in wars of hatred and violence, in countries where all sects coexisted for hundreds of years.
Today, we say to the alliance, it is time to start the offensive wars, we have had enough defensive ones that only come as a reaction to our defeats here or there.
Wars are not for killing and destruction, but to restore the borders and our identity. Silence over clandestine activities is no longer acceptable.
The sword reached our neck, making it incumbent to revive a real political, economic military and media project that is linked to a major Islamic system in order to protect it and preserve its borders.
A project that reconciles with the faithful ones at home, who are ready to be in the forefront of the battle, not in the back rows!
That vision and goal will not reap the fruits unless our countries remove the haze from their eyes to know who is a friend and who is an enemy.
We have supported and stood by the ousted Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen to only receive from him the Houthis’ dagger stab. It is enough for us from one Ali Abdullah Saleh, as there are many like him who wish to stab us from the back.
It is time for us to move forward with power and strategic foresight, not with the protection and assurance of the US as our capitals are fallen because of its negligence and conspiracy.
(The writer is columnist and researcher)
