For about a year now, the world has been watching the daily bloody scenes unfolding in Syria, where the regime is killing children, terrorizing women and shedding the blood of the innocent without any mercy. The world is stammering before the Russian-Chinese veto as though powerless and without any morals or humanity, while Moscow and Beijing are backing up Al-Assad's regime and pushing it – through the veto – to commit more slaughters against its people. Major states are dealing with the remaining countries around the world as though they were cardboard states whose people's blood is cheap, and are using the veto right to kill them. Major states are maneuvering with filthy policies to seek narrow interests, without any regard for the safety and security of the crushed, the oppressed and the exploited. The veto has become a license to kill and act unjustly. Washington used this veto to prevent the recognition of the state of Palestine at the United Nations, and Russia and China are blatantly doing the same to authorize the killing in Syria. The people used to believe that the Security Council's mission was to preserve security, introduce peace and ensure the issuance of resolutions to end the bloodshed and protect people from brutality, violence and oppression. However, it was transformed by the major actors into a tool to authorize slaughter and defend dictatorial regimes which are shedding the blood of their own people, but also to carry out outbidding with cheap means. The Security Council's failure renders fear inevitable, which prompted Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz to say that the world was going through terrifying times and that what happened at the United Nations was a negative development which shook the world's trust in it. There is no doubt that the UN failure to issue a resolution protecting the Syrian people against the killing machine stands as proof for the failure of the Security Council. At this level, the world should not be controlled by states that are unable to impose justice and fairness, a thing to which the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques pointed to by saying: “States, regardless of which ones, never control the entire world. The world is governed by reason, morals and the sanctioning of the aggressors.” In regard to the Syrian issue, the position of the Gulf states has been unshakable since the beginning of the crisis. Indeed, they supported the Syrian people and publicly stood alongside them, while the speech of King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz last Ramadan marked the first official Arab reaction, as he called on the Syrian regime to stop the killing machine and the bloodshed, prevent the use of excessive power and resort to reason before it is too late. Nonetheless, the “regime of blood” disregarded these calls and proceeded with its bloodiness, which pushed Riyadh to summon its ambassador in Damascus. The event as described by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques is too great to be justified by reasons, which has so far been done by the regime that is drowning in killing, torture and destruction, while believing it can get away with its horrendous crimes. And in order to confirm the resoluteness of the Saudi and Gulf position toward what is happening in Syria, Saudi Arabia pulled out its observers who were participating in the Arab mission in order to avoid being a false witness, especially after the efforts and tendencies of the head of the observers' team, Sudanese national Mohammed al-Dabi, became clear. Indeed, the latter turned out to be helping the regime instead of registering its practices and crimes, which pushed the Gulf states to cooperate with the Saudi position and withdraw their observers due to the Syrian regime's non-commitment to the Arab League decisions. Finally, the Gulf Cooperation Council states decided to oust the ambassadors of the Syrian regime from their capitals, while they are expected to recognize the National Council as the representative of the Syrian people after the regime closed all doors before the solutions and chose bloodbath over the peace doves! Another noticeable phenomenon is the ability of the movements of political Islam to maneuver and justify their silence vis-à-vis the killing of the unarmed civilians, although some of their leaders live a few meters away from the massacres being carried out by the thugs and although the knives of Al-Assad's regime are shoved deep within the Syrian people's waist. Hamas and some Muslim Brotherhood groups are eluding their responsibility, disregarding the killing in Syria and playing on words, without uttering one condemnation against Al-Assad's crimes. The sins of these politicized movements have become clear to the people, although their supporters may continue to defend them. Indeed, Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Meshaal are remaining silent as though satisfied with the crimes of Al-Assad and his thugs, while recently Haniyeh neglected the calls of the wounded Arab populations and went to Tehran where he placed his hand in that of the side helping Bashar al-Assad's regime and supplying it with money, equipment and men. By doing so, he clearly downplayed the importance of the Syrian blood and opened the deep wounds in the hearts of the Arab populations. What is certain is that Russia's and China's intercession in favor of Al-Assad's regime through the veto and the silence of some movements of political Islam toward the massacres and the hanging of the noose for the Syrian people, will not allow Bashar and his gang to stay in power. Hence, the announcement of the fleeing or the departure is only a matter of time, and 2012 will see the fall of yet another dictator, just as others fell before him in 2011. [email protected] twitter | @JameelTheyabi
