The Road to Abyss...

Ibrahim al-Amin

It appears that the predictions of Mohammed Hassanein Heikal regarding the future of the Saudi regime are very realistic. Rather, they are perhaps more accurate than he thought, the man who does not believe he will live for more than a decade. Of course, Saudi Arabia has a long account with Heikal, and it chases him today even to its friend Abed Fattah al-Sisi. However, its problem with [Heikal] is that he continues to strive for a pivotal Egyptian role, which would lead the process of containing Shia-Sunni sedition, which the House of Saud does not strive other than to fuel it, thinking that therein lays the salvation of their blood-wrenched, backward regime.

Furthermore, the problem of the House of Saud with a strong, independent Egypt is that it enables the world to distinguish the real players from the hypothetical ones. Moreover, Egypt is capable, as Heikal has repeatedly said, of leading the first and best dialogue with Iran's Islamic revolution, and to reach understandings, not only with regards to public policy within the region, but also in promoting cooperation that would push forward the logic of independence and abandoning subordination to the West. This is what the House of Saud and its followers view as an opening to the overthrow of their thrones throughout the region.

The idea of the House of Saud was, since the beginning of the protests that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak - just as is the case of the princes of Qatar and the UAE - that Egypt must be held onto, whether the West requests this or not. The aim is not only to disrupt Egypt's ability to restore its regional role, which would make it the true capital of Arabism, and the capital of the confrontation with Israel and with terrorism, whose ideology comes from the Arabian Peninsula. This made the "Gulf Cooperation Council" states deliberately draw in Arab regimes "in need of financial, political and military support", which allowed them to take control over the Arab League in recent years.

When it became apparent that this does not help much in bringing about changes, the [Arab League] was paralysed [instead]. Here, one can understand the enormous pressure that the Gulf States alternated in exercising upon Egypt, both formerly during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, or during the rule of the military today. In actual fact, there is no difference between what Qatar and Turkey wanted from the "Brotherhood-ruled Egypt", and with what Saudi Arabia and the UAE wanted from the "military-ruled Egypt". There is one goal: to continue to put pressure on the rest of the Arab governments who have the potential to confront the project that is in line with American tutelage. However, things became jumbled up for all, and the Arab world entered into the furnace of moving civil wars, and the promised spring left, and was replaced by the autumn of regimes, governments, parties, ideas, and communities. A sweeping stream cannot be repelled by the walls of sand in the states within the Arabian Peninsula. In addition, neither money, nor planes, nor prayers will benefit them, so what about if madness itself wishes to install its reign in the land of the caliphate?

The Saudis moved to further madness. They continue to support the greatest crime being committed in Syria and Iraq. Rather than acting with some reason, they moved towards the farthest limit, by seeking to impose their control over the entire Arabian Peninsula. They re-occupied Bahrain and suppressed the peaceful uprising of its people. They succeeded in containing the UAE and Kuwait, and they scared off Qatar, thus isolating and containing it.

What slipped from their hands in the Sultanate of Oman, they decided to make a secondary objective, after the occupation of Yemen. With their feelings and perceptions that there is no longer anyone in the world that will fight for them, and that the powerful West left defeated from the Levant, they realized that they have to do it with their own hands. The first step of their collapse was the invention of a hybrid alliance to cover for the greatest crime being committed against Yemen. It is an alliance that did not reap anything but disappointment for its people, and more death and backwardness for the people of Yemen. Yet the alliance revealed the reality of the House of Saud: the reality of their capabilities, ideas, imagination, relationships, and their influence in general, and their influence on others.

After less than one year from the bloody war, siege, and madness, the House of Saud find themselves in the square of defeat, whereby none of its goals were achieved, and whereby it makes the Bedouin think of nothing but revenge. This leads to more mistakes and more madness. On the eve of the exposure of the defeat in front of their own people, before [being exposed] in front of the rest of the world, they found in their hands a ploy to look for a new alliance, and assigned themselves the task of fighting terrorism. Here, none of us needs to search to find the terrorist in thoughts, policies, and logic.

The alliance announced from Saudi Arabia, yesterday, only resembles Mohammed Bin Sulaiman, the disobedient boy, who continues to bring calamities to the rest of his family, and threatens what remains of stability in the region. An alliance only the title of which will be used, to cover up for more crimes, and to make it a fait accompli, yet with soldiers of terrorist organizations, and armies of terrorist regimes, which Saudi Arabia will try to push into the circle of fire stretching from Iraq to Libya, reaching up to the wounded Yemen.

It is a new adventure, regarding which we will quickly discover that the House of Saud are not able to do more than advertise for it, and provide it with funds. Yet the problem is not that we will not see the army of millions mobilising for the liberation of Palestine, but that it will be steered by the "Israeli" occupier, and from behind it the West, whether it will have a real role or merely be a smoke bomb. Its objective is to cover up the series of defeats, and not least of which is the victory of the Yemeni people over the killing machine of US-Saudi madness.

Source: al-Akhbar, Translated and Edited by website team