The Daily Tip http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.ewJXKcOUJlIaG/b.7711637/k.BEA8/Home.htm has two Syria-related items today (13 June 2013) that make me wonder: Where are the diplomats and brave fighters of the Arab Legion when they are needed to restore quiet to Syria?
The two “threatening” items:
The Lebanese army is threatening to retaliate against future Syrian attacks on Lebanese territory, after Damascus launched a helicopter gunship attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal and injured two. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman called the attack “a violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty,” and the U.S. State Department issued a condemnation. Arsal, a majority Sunni town near the Lebanese-Syrian border, has been targeted multiple times in recent months by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and by the regime’s allies. The renewed crisis comes as Hezbollah is under increasing criticism, perhaps most pointedly in the Arab world, for dragging Lebanon into the violence in Syria. The Iran-backed terror group has vowed to fight in Syria until the regime succeeds in putting down the country’s more than two year rebellion. Hezbollah’s material and logistical support for the Assad regime, which has now repeatedly attacked Lebanon, sits uneasily alongside claims made in corners of the foreign policy community to the effect that Hezbollah is an indigenous Lebanese organization protecting Lebanese sovereignty and pursuing Lebanese interests.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned Wednesday that spillover from Syria’s civil war is threatening the increasingly fragile four-decade ceasefire between Syria and Israel. Observers are raising alarms about the potential collapse of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) – the U.N. peacekeeping mission which has monitored the Golan Heights region between the two countries since 1974 – in the aftermath of an Austrian decision to withdraw its troops from the force. Vienna’s contribution of around 300 troops constituted nearly one-third of the entire mission. Following Austria’s announcement, Ban Ki-moon said he was seeking hundreds of new troops from member countries, but he did not say if any volunteers had stepped forward. Both sides in the Syrian conflict have directly threatened to attack Israel from across the border that the Jewish state shares with Syria. The Bashar al-Assad regime has given Palestinian terror groups a green light to launch attacks, and the regime’s Hezbollah allies have threatened to open a “new front” on the Golan. Jihadists battling the regime have also vowed to attack Israel. Israeli officials have indicated that they will not tolerate attacks on civilian and military targets originating from Syrian territory.
Just what 21 states make up the Arab League?
Algeria
Bahrain
Djibouti
Egypt
Iraq
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Mauritania
Morocco
Oman
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Somali
Sudan
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
Several of these states came to aid in the invasion of Israel in 1948, either by sending in armies or by volunteers ready to drive the Jews to the sea, yet they cannot come together to cause a cessation of fighting in their member countries. (Nor can they come together to suppress Iran’s nuclear effort, even knowing Iran might very well use nuclear weapons against Arab League members - as well as Israel).
Two non-states are missing from the list and these two are adding fuel to the fires in Syria and Lebanon: Hamas and Hezbollah.
I guess all these brave Arab League nations are waiting for non-Muslims to do what the cowards are afraid to do - step in and risk a Muslim life to end the Muslim-killing-Muslim conflicts.
This lack of concern by the Arab League doe nothing for Islam's proclaimed "peaceful intent"; on the contrary, it shows Islam's true colors.
