Rambling of an Arab

As the massacres of Gaza become a thing of the past, Arab states have moved on to more 'important' things (at least for those Arabs that had no interest in the crisis in Gaza from the beginning). Having put Gaza behind them, Moderate Arab officials met in Abu Dhabi to discuss the issues that are hindering 'Arab unity' created by undesired, destructive interferences from entities that are not Arab. Of course you might think that if we are discussing 'Arab unity' then that would include all the Arab states, however it seems that in the eye of so called moderate Arab states countries like Syria, Qatar, Sudan, Libya and Algeria are not at the same level of Arab'ness compared to those of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain.

It seems that Moderate Arab states have now decided to completely lock on to their newly acquired target: Iran.

The real problem is there is NO reason for Arab states to be in conflict with the Iranians. If there is then I'm completely missing the reason why we should be focusing on fighting the Iranians. I know of a few reasons why some people say that we should be fighting the Iranians. They say the Iranians are trying to spread shiaism in Sunni countries, they say that they want to recreate the Persian Empire, and they say they want to conquer Mecca and Medina; these are the reasons why they say we have to be fighting them. In reality all of this is propaganda and even if there are people trying to 'convert' sunni muslims to Shia Islam as so many people have stated, people like Sheikh Al Qaradawi, this will never reach a point where 90% of the the muslim sunni population will start to believe in Shia Islam, especially if its done in a preaching manner.
But if these accusations are true, and eventually Iran does for example manage to establish the "Persian Empire" and conquer Mecca and Medina, whose fault is that really? Is it the Iranians fault that we (all Arab states) do not have the required resources to fight such an evil plan? and how come it is such a problem to have Iranians taking over, when right now there are American bases in nearly every Arab country? What type of Hypocrisy is this? Is it ok for the Americans to occupy our lands with their military bases, but not so 'ok' for the Iranians that are closer to us in the cultural, religious and historical sense than the Americans and Westerners will ever be?!

People that I talk to usually tell me that I am deluded about the hidden agendas of the Iranians and their plans to dominate the region. What about the American Western Colonial Imperial Zionist agenda? It seems that some Arabs forgot that when the Shah of Iran was in power and when Iran had strong relations with Israel, the Arabs didn't say one word about the Iranian influence in the region, they forgot that when Khumaini came to power he order that Arabic become the second language in educational institutions, they forgot that it was Saddam Hussein who started an 8 year long war that was order by the CIA, which by the end left Iraq in a devastated situation (and some nationalist Arabs have the nerve to call Saddam a Hero!). The Arabs seem to forget that those three Islands by the coast of the UAE were given to Iran in a deal agreed by King Faisal and the Shah of Iran; giving Iran those three islands in return the Iranians would give the island of Bahrain its independence.

Arab politicians are not really politicians, they complain about Irans increasing influence and then they allow it to gain that influence. It is Iran that supports Hizbullah and Hamas, and it is Iranian money that those organizations were giving out to people after the Zionist aggressions of 2006 on Lebanon and 2008 in Gaza. At the same time, Arab states have completely abandoned the thought of resistance, and leaders like Husni Mobarak of Egypt even supported the Zionist Aggression on Gaza by blocking the Rafah border crossing, stopping humanitarian aid from reaching civilians and not allowing refugees to escape from the war zone. It is Egypt as well that has allowed the Nato to patrol its waters to stop the smuggling of weapons into Gaza. True, Iran is not doing all of this because they love Arabs, but they are doing this for their own interest, and not their leaders narrow individual interests but the interests of Iran as a whole.

Talking about interests, Iran launched last week its own Satellite into space, using its own scientists and its very own technology, and plans to send three more satellites in the coming year, along with its nuclear program Iran has surpassed the technological abilities of ALL the Arab states combined. And all of that in 30 years; 30 years under economic sanctions. Now consider the Arabs. Saudi Arabia has not been involved in a single war since the day it was created, its number one export is Oil, followed by DATES! One might think that with all this oil, Saudi Arabia might have a strong petrochemical industry but no, they don't. Consider Egypt. Its been 30 years since it signed its peace treaty with Israel, therefore it is out of the conflict. Egypt's leaders at the time said that now that they have signed a peace treaty and are out of the conflict they can concentrate on the economy and improve the living standards of Egyptians. Egypt's main exports are Petroleum, Petroleum products and freakin cotton!! (Just to paint an uglier picture Egypt still is under Emergency laws, even though they are no longer at war with Israel).
My point is, not one Arab state has managed to become an exporter of knowledge and technology, not one state has managed to launch its own satellite into space so that their scientists can collect information that will help them with their research, not one state has educational institutions/universities that produce and assimilate knowledge in order to benefit their own people. All we know is how to get the American, British, French engineer, specialist, consultant, expert, etc, to do things for us, our leaders only know how to sip alcoholic beverages in New York, party in Monaco, and sail in 70 foot yachts in the Côte d'Azur.

Let me end this because trust me, I (and any Arab person) can sit and complain for days about the stupidity of the Arab leaders that are running our countries. To round this up and to conclude this is a part of the movie "V for Vendetta" explaining the reality of oppressive regimes and who really are the ones who are guilty for allowing those regimes to exist...