Gulf states slam Arab League countries for tepid response to Iranian aggression

Gulf states slam Arab League countries for tepid response to Iranian aggression

The United Arab Emirates has been publicly expressing its disappointment in Arab League countries like Egypt for not showing or expressing very little support for Gulf states under attack from Iran, a dynamic playing out more quietly in other Gulf states, as well. In a post on X on Sunday that received significant attention, Anwar Gargash, an advisor to the UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed, said that Irans brutal aggression against the Arab Gulf …

Arab voices: How Palestine causes Arab stagnation

Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Research Fellow at FDD: Jamal says that in 1991, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Palestinian leader Arafat said in a speech before the Arab League that "the Kuwaiti problem will be solved only after the Palestinian Cause."  Palestine was a cause, but Kuwait -- invaded and burnt down by a fellow Arab country -- was only a problem. In 1991, only 12 out of 22 Arab League members voted against Iraq, six Gulf countries and the six o…