Libya's share of Arab summits this year is exceptional, just like the Arabs' and the joint action system's share of crises, some of which are being set up to turn into catastrophes, and tumult in the neighboring states, which some are taking their stability as a hostage. Between the quintuple summit and the upcoming extraordinary summit, there is nothing to prevent the expansion of the unknown surrounding the region, from the Gulf to Sudan, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen. The Gulf is still besieged by the Iranian nuclear file crisis and the fears revolving around Iran's development of the ability to manufacture the atomic bomb. It is also concerned about the repercussions of Yemen's swinging on the rope of the battle with terrorism and the confrontation with the “Hirak” in the South. In the meantime, the unity of Sudan, which is linked to the referendum over the fate of its South is tilting toward divorce, while Lebanon's stability is hanging on the tightly-pulled string of concord, based on regional wishes which no one knows when they will shift. As for the ship of Palestinian reconciliation, it is rapidly sinking toward the bottom, as the relations between Hamas and the big Egyptian brother that is sponsoring the latter reconciliation have deteriorated and are featuring additional accusations in which the sword of conspiracies is being brandished. Dream O Arabs about the Palestinian state! This is what Israel is saying to them as it is using the wasted time to hasten the pace of its efforts to swallow up Jerusalem, while reassured by the fact that the American administration is busy with the financial crisis, Afghanistan and the “Iranian threat,” but also by the fact that the Arabs are drowning in their crises and that Palestinian division has become a purely Israeli weapon. In this context, the blockade to suffocate Gaza will continue to be a weapon as long as division is ongoing and Cairo's temporary disregarding of reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas which is accusing Egypt of escalation, is forcing it to seek a formula to open the crossings leading into the Strip in a way that completely bypasses coordination with the movement. Moreover, if this formula coincides with President Mahmud Abbas' acceptance of direct talks with Israel, Hamas will use this as a pretext to proclaim the passing of the Palestinian president's legitimacy once again. It is yet another chapter in the confrontation between the Palestinians, toward which the joint Arab action system looks completely impotent. Indeed, how can the Arab League and the Summit Institution adopt the Egyptian mediation efforts, and then remain silent as they are watching the consecutive failures without having any tool to impose a solution on the side hindering this reconciliation? Is this crisis-predicament not pushing toward another form of insistence on the Arab Summit to seek an answer to the major question revolving around the fate of the Arab Court of Justice and the Peace and Security Council? Can the threat of seeing the consecration of two Palestinian entities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip wait additional years before the implementation of the decision of Arab leaders and activate the “system of joint Arab action?” Moreover, can they impose solutions away from concord whenever the unity of any Arab country is at risk? Who defines what is “legitimate” and what is “rogue,” who is a collaborator and who is an obstructer, who is a “nationalist” and who is selling the decision to whoever wishes to take it among the neighboring states? There is no harm and no shame in exposing the division witnessed during the quintuple summit in Tripoli over the hastening of the formation of the “Arab Union” or even over its name, just like there is nothing new about the question revolving around Article VII of the Arab League Charter and the problem of forcing all the members states to abide by its decisions if they are not unanimous. What is certain however, despite all the good intentions behind the dream of a “Union”, is that the crises are still threatening to generate additional conflicts serving non-Arab interests. On the other hand, while the attempts to draw up a map of joint interests with the neighbors is an advanced step, the so-called Arab system should give priority to the extinguishing of the fires and the rotation of the Arab capitals in the region, in order to defuse the time bombs of unemployment and poverty and eradicate ignorance and extremism with the weapon of development and complementarity. No one can deny the turning of the page of media mudslinging between some Arab states, ever since the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz launched his initiative of Arab reconciliations. However, although the bitterness entailed by the disputes will take some time to dissipate, the Summit Institution – if it were to consecrate the stage of realism – should merge the projects to develop it and the pressing solutions to appease the “urgent” conflicts which are being set ablaze by the winds of interference. In this context, leaving Sudan or Iraq to face their fate will not put an end to the interference, while the disregarding of Yemen will not distance the hands and consequences of terrorism. As for the elusiveness of the extremist government in Israel and its great lie about the search for peace, they will not change with verbal American pressures which will soon collapse with Iran as a pretext, at a time when the dream of Palestine is dissipating with the strikes of Judaization and the division of the Palestinians.
