It will take some time to create a joint force. Especially when you consider all parties involved have to agree on its make up, command, and its objectives. That's all without going into things such as interoperability, logistics, and training.
The protocols for the creation of joint Arab Force that will hopefully be signed this August (they were meant for this month but it was delayed after a request from the Egyptian COS so further talks can happen).
مشاورات عربية لعقد اجتماع وزراء الخارجية والدفاع لاقرار"القوة المشتركة" |اليوم السابع
بن حلي: اجتماع عربي نهاية أغسطس لإقرار إنشاء القوة العربية المشتركة - الإمارات اليوم
Let us see brother. Allow me to remain skeptical until I see real concrete steps. Even if it will be created one day I am very curious about its effectiveness if deployed in regions of the Arab world that are unstable/suffering from turmoil/wars.
Look at Daesh. A menace that EVERY Arab regime should be fighting against as they are destroying the region and keeping us from progressing on all fronts. Arab regimes, which are potential targets of Daesh and groups alike and in many cases have suffered from them tremendously from Algeria to Iraq) should all exchange their hands and look past their silly rivalries to help. For instance in Iraq. KSA and the GCC offered Abadi to bomb Daesh but where denied that honor. It's because there is a lack of trust and for what exactly? What are the people gaining from it? Shall we kill brother and sister just because of a slightly different sec in the same religion (Sunni vs Shia) or political differences (monarchy - republic) etc.?
Less than 100 years ago people of Southern Iraq and Najd (just to make an example) were traveling and settling, marrying each other, doing business etc. There were no formal borders. People did not look at each other as enemies or foreigners. Sure, there was the Ikhwan etc. but I am talking about the common man and woman. Even Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi lived in Baghdad and Basra and married there as did the descendants of many famous Iraqi Shia Arab clerical families today.
Now both sides due to sectarianism are wishing each other death while their great-grandfathers lived in peace and considered themselves as brethren.
Same with people in Southern Iraq and Yemen. Today we have a conflict there and hatred flowing. For no real reason really. Just regimes doing their dirty work.
I still remember stories that my great-grandfather told about (he died when I was 10) about how people from across the Arab world when doing Hajj and Umrah came together and how different it was back then. He of course lived to see the many schism in the Arab world (Baa'thism, Arab nationalism, Islamism, monarchism) etc. Today you can somewhat feel the tensions between Sunnis and Shias in a place that they consider the most holy. It should not be like that.
I would have loved to see KSA and neighboring Arab states of Iraq (for instance) fight side by side with Iraqis to remove Daesh. Or Iraqis fighting side by side elsewhere to fight injustice, tyranny and terror. Or in Egypt. Or if the richer Arab states did more for the poor ones. Tried to lead by an example to help the region overall. Like how the EU decided to help integrate Eastern European countries for the sake of European unity.
Well, long story short, we need serious changes and we should work towards that no matter how hopeless it might look. We don't have to hold hands 24/7 but we can surely do much better. Maybe I have lost my mind I don't know.
The arabs don't need green light from UN or EU to intervene in other arab muslim country like Yemen specially these so called borders were recent 100 years ago were no borders and the people in the Arabian peninsula speak the same languege and have the same religion and culture
That's not how it works as we live in an era of nation states. 100 years ago an Yemeni did not consider Abha, Jazan or Salalah as foreign (of course it was not his homeland but you get my point here) nor did a person from Basra consider Kuwait or nearby KSA as foreign territory. Or a person in Amman, Tabuk for instance. It was all land inhabited by Arabs, albeit different ancient regions.
It's more difficult for a person living in Hafar al-Batin to enter nearby Samawa than traveling to Sri Lanka for God's sake nowadays. The regimes and circumstances in the region have created barriers that are unnatural. Now people in the region believe that the difference between an Yemeni and Egyptian is bigger than the difference between an Egyptian and Pole, lol. Sometimes it appears like that.
This is the same almost everywhere else in the Arab world.
Actually the UN has been imploring you to stop bombing Yemen. When did they endorse it?
What KSA does is none of my business, I've said it before. I was highlighting the rampant hypocrisy. Speaking of presidents in exile, why does KSA support Hadi as legitimate Yemen president, but in Egypt they removed Morsi who was voted in fair and square? So coups are OK in Egypt but not OK in Yemen? See the hypocrisy I'm talking about?
Assad has been fighting a civil war for 4 years now. He is the legitimate head of the Syrian government. He is allowed as the president to do whatever it takes to defend his country. Abraham Lincoln's war against the south killed 600000 people and he's considered a hero. If you decide to take up arms against the government, you cannot complain when the government responds in kind. You either win or lose, but don't complain that the government is too violent.
KSA war in Yemen is an unprovoked invasion of another sovereign country. No way to spin this. You CHOSE to bomb them. You will have to live with the civilian casualties.
The world has seen that Assad, a pluralist and secularist is the only decent man to rule Syria. We don't want medieval meatheads like AQ or IS. If they want to remove him, they should do it themselves and stop complaining. The only people who want Assad removed are Islamists and Zionists.
What don't you understand? I am not a ruler in KSA nor a member of the House of Saud nor do the average Saudi Arabian have anything to say about the foreign policy of KSA. Do you understand that?
If you finally understand that after months if not years of discussions here on PDF we might have a sensible discussion.
The US, UK, most of the Arab League and many if not most UN member states support the ongoing operation or are neutral. Few are criticizing it directly.
Besides there was an illegal coup d'état in Yemen in September 2014 done by the Houthi's which was condemned by the UN and most countries evacuated their citizens and closed their embassies. The Houthi's were killing many civilian Yemenis and opponents before they took power. Long before KSA even entered the scene. I guess that you missed that.
KSA did not remove anything in Egypt but the Egyptians did so themselves. Did you see any Saudi Arabian soldiers or people when Morsi was removed?
Let
@Frogman educate you.
Besides those are not comparable episodes as Morsi was not a mass-murderer as Al-Assad. KSA had diplomatic relations with Egypt when Morsi ruled and Morsi even visited KSA and King Abdullah visited Morsi in Egypt.
LOL. KSA has not invaded Yemen. KSA and its allies are conducting airstrikes not against Yemen but the terrorist Houthi cult who ILLEGALLY took power in Yemen along with loyal pro-Saleh (a former dictator of Yemen who ruled it for over 30 years and who is one of the most corrupt pelicans on the planet - he stole 60 billion dollars while he ruled) after Hadi (the elected president) went to the Arab League to ask for aid in fighting the menace.
UN Report: Yemen’s Saleh Took Billions
Yes, the Houthi's were an immediate threat to KSA as they have attacked KSA before (2009) and as they were mobilizing a huge number of troops near the Saudi-Yemeni border including ballistic missiles etc. They were also openly speaking about invading KSA. Moreover they consider certain regions of KSA as belonging to "them".
What a bunch of nonsense. Al-Assad is an evil mass-murdering dictator. Using your logic Saddam was a saint too just because his regime was "secular" which it was not truly anyway. Neither in Iraq or Syria.
Your comparisons are beyond moronic. Sorry. Al-Assad is the most violent leader in the Arab world since Saddam. Supporting him is the equivalent of supporting genocide in Syria.
There are 0 Zionists in Syria. Nice try. Yes, only Islamists support his downfall. What a bunch of nonsense. Let us ask Syrians here.
@Dr.Thrax @Antaréss . There is not even any need to ask them as your claim is an absolutely absurd and moronic claim.
Besides I already told you that KSA and its allies are not innocent in Yemen nor the Syrian opposition in Syria but they are as of now at least the lesser evils. Nor am I supporting any regimes in the region although I obviously prefer certain regimes over other regimes but none are my "ideal" regimes.
U are too much confused.
