“All Arabs feel nowadays they are targeted, and that imposing any more demands, or enforced silences, or even what is dubbed rationality and wisdom by outsiders, is not acceptable.”
Oh Really ! maybe they should step back and look at themselves before they go running their mouths about what they are Upset about !
I'm sure the rest of the world has a zillion things to say about the way the Arab world act's !
Other than that , Does it surprise anyone that they all back Bashir ?
, why wouldn't they , He's a murdering , human rights violating , rapist , Dictator ! None of them see anything wrong with that .
NY Times.....
CAIRO — Arab leaders may be divided over which Palestinian faction to support and what to do about Iran’s rising influence, but they have found one cause to rally around: Protecting the president of Sudan from charges he orchestrated the rape, killing and widespread pillaging in Darfur.
Arab leaders gathered for their annual summit meeting in Doha, the capital city of Qatar, on Monday, hoping to patch over their many differences. But they had little trouble agreeing to an effusive embrace of Omar Hassan al- Bashir, the president of Sudan, who was indicted by the International Criminal Court earlier this month for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Arab leaders have closed ranks around a fellow head of state in the face of pressure from the West and condemnation from human rights groups around the world. They have argued that the International Criminal Court compromises Sudan’s sovereignty. Their supporters said the court’s action revealed the west’s double standard in dealing with Arabs by indicting Mr. Bashir while taking no action against what they see as war crimes committed by Israel during its offensive in the Gaza Strip. They added that the indictment undermines efforts at bringing about a negotiated settlement by inflaming the situation.
“As for their weak pretexts about fabricated crimes committed by Sudan, we can discuss it with them after they bring those who committed the atrocities and massacres in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq to the court implicated for the same crimes, but ones that are not fabricated, but rather proven with documents and incidents,” Mr. Assad concluded.
“The leaders’ position is their own self=defense because they don’t want to open the door to an international tribunal of any kind that will open the file of any crimes they committed against humanity or against their own people,” said Saad al-Ajmi, a former Kuwaiti minister of information. “Most of those regimes are actually dictatorships, and most of them have their hands smeared with the blood of their own people.”
An independent group called the condemned Mr. Bashir’s participation in the summit and said that it is was hypocritical for Arabs to want Israel to be investigated for Israel’s actions in Gaza and then “complain about it if a friendly country is involved.”
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