Adnan Mansour

Hassan Olleik - Al-Akhbar newspaper

It is no coincidence that Algeria and Iraq were the only two Arab states to object to arming the Syrian opposition. Their rejection was not just correlated to their general political position and their relations with the Resistance axis in the region. Rather, these two Arab states possess a surplus of oil and gas that allows them to spurn the will of the Gulf oil kingdoms.

It is neither a coincidence that a large camp of the Lebanese political forces has just widely mobilized to attack Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour over his fresh stance on what is happening in Syria. These forces are tightly linked to the political money overflowing from the Gulf oil kingdoms.

These kingdoms today stand up to expose their will to igniting the war in "Bilad al-Sham" [Syria]. With stark impertinence, these kingdoms have just threatened Lebanon with its economy and security, unless it abides by the "dissociation" policy. They linked "dissociation" to what they termed as "the position of some Lebanese forces." The economic part of the threat is understandable. In fact, they are waving to expel the Lebanese working there if Lebanese stances objecting to their policies in Syria or supporting the demand of freedom of the majority of the Bahraini people continue to be issued. However, their threat of security remains ambiguous.

Are they heralding with their "Mujahedeen" and "brotherhood" coming from all over the world to fight for the freedom claimed by al-Nusra Front? Or will they inaugurate a branch in Beirut to the armament which became ostensible in Syria? Only God knows what Hamad Bin Jassem and John Kerry said to each other. Besides, what Adnan Mansour did in Cairo is sheer commitment to the "dissociation" policy. The Foreign Minister only uttered an ethical stance that calls to peaceful solution in Syria and to restituting to Damascus its seat at the Arab League, to pave the way for a dialogue [with the Syrian authorities] in Cairo.

The Gulf regimes engaging in implementing John Kerry's agenda aiming at more blood and destruction in Syria were dismayed at Mansour's stance. They see that "dissociation" entails keeping silent over weapons flocking to destroy an Arab country. Under the wise ruling of Hamad Bin Jassem and Saoud Al-Faisal, the words of right and truth have become something which the Lebanese political class is ashamed of, even prompting Prime Minister Najib Mikati to wash his hands clean of them.

The fault of Adnan Mansour is that he called for peace at a time of hastiness to a war that is involving the blood, livelihood, and nation of the Syrians. His biggest guilt is that he refused to bow to the lords of the kingdoms of the damned oil.