PGCC’s double standard toward Syria

The foreign ministers of the six members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council called for an end to the ‘bloodshed’ in Syria on Sunday and urged the government of this country to promptly restore peace to the state.

Following the trite issue of the triple Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf, which has become a corny and useless feature of the repeated statements of the PGCC, it appears that the Arabic countries have added the issue of Syria to their wish list. The claim is corroborated by the fact that the governments constituting this council do not hesitate to aid and abet the Bashar Assad opposition and the Qatar-based Aljazeera television channel and its Saudi counterpart Al Arabiya have exhausted all of their professional potential not to merely screen the Syrian crisis, but to deepen it.

The Bahrain exception apart, the Arab Spring has yet to challenge the other countries of the PGCC with the change or any serious threat. This has spurred the cooperation council to annex the two monarchical states of Jordan and Morocco to itself. The foreign ministers of the aforementioned participated in the Sunday summit of the PGCC.

The members of the PGCC incite revolts in the republic states in the Arab world and promote democratic regime, free elections and parliamentarian rule in those countries. All this while they themselves are far removed from all these concepts and in their own countries a democratic parliamentarian regime and the rule of people over people is no more than mere myth.

Egypt’s minister of Justice revealed a few days ago that one of the small Persian Gulf littoral Arab states had dispatched a considerable amount of money to Egypt to incite revolt and derail the public revolution early last February. Hosni Mubarak was still in power then. The small country is most probably either Qatar or the United Arab Emirates, since Bahrain or Oman did not enjoy the financial might to provide monetary aid to Mubarak supporters and both of them were afflicted by internal revolts anyway.

When the issue of foreign intervention in Libya was brought up, the PGCC initially called for foreign support of the Libyan people against Muammar Gaddafi. Then, the proposal of this council was taken to the Arab League and the League ratified it. In the third phase the United Nations Security Council approved the establishment of a no-fly zone over Libya and embarked on the support of the Libyan people through its bombardment of Libya’s military facilities. Gaddafi, a hated figure by the leaders of the PGCC, always mocked them and dubbed them as reactionaries.

This story is unfolding in another way for Syria. When Western pressures on Damascus intensified, and the White House and the European Union ratified several political and economic sanctions on Syria, PGCC recalled its envoys from the Syrian capital. The next step was involving the Arab League. The Arab League approved a plan aimed to end the Syria’s crisis, a move which Damascus regards as interference. Some of the Arab analysts believe that US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman played an important role in the approval of the plan.

Considering the fact that Egypt is dealing with its internal problems, the Saudi and Qatari governments have become the active members of the Arab League, trying to assume control over the organization through their financial clout and propaganda.

Surprisingly, Syria did not accept the plan, and allowed the secretary general of the Arab League into Damascus to deliver a lecture on the condition that he does not speak about the Arab League’s plan. When Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Araby’s trip was harshly criticized by Syria and consequently postponed, some of the Arab League members–probably Qatar and Saudi Arabia–revealed the plan to the media in order to increase pressure on Damascus.

It seems the new proposal by the PGCC can begin a new wave of pressure on Syria, and will pave the way for foreign meddling in the country’s internal affairs.

The Russian government has repeatedly warned about the repetition of Libya’s scenario, and expressed its disapproval about it. This disapproval was once again repeated during a recent visit by a group of opposition supporters to Moscow.

These concerns are not limited to Moscow and Beijing. Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai also tried to warn the French government of the dangers of the foreign interference in Syria. During his recent visit to France, he said:

If the regime is supposed to change in Syria, we are worried the situation becomes worse. We choose the bad between the bad and worse.

We are worried about a new war in Syria, which will also impact Lebanon due to the similarities between the two countries.

The Syrian government says that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country and the security forces have been given clear instructions not to harm civilians. The gangs are financed and supported by US, France, Israel and their regional allies. This terrorist group kills civilians then blame the Syrian Security Forces. The US-Backed armed groups also kill the security forces. On the contrary to the reality in Syria, the world media misinforms the people and lies about what is really hapening in Syria. Especially Al- Ja zeera Tv and some west media are producing false news about Syria. These coloured media say that they will go on producing false news if Syria continue to be a key between the Iran, Islamic Resistances like Hamas, Islami Jihad and Lebanese Hezbollah movements.