Opinion: Why Arab states are failing the Palestinian people

Before the question of Palestine became a central global ethical concern for our contemporary world, it was an ethical core of modern Arab identity. The belated European Zionist colonisation of Palestine was a flagrant injustice that unified Arabs from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and beyond.

It cut across regional, class, sectarian, and religious divisions. For that same reason, the question of Palestine has also exposed a gulf in the Arab world between western-dependent rulers and their populations yearning for meaningful self-determination and solidarity.

This chasm has increased massively during the current Israeli onslaught against Gaza, which many consider to be a genocide.

The same cannot be said about Arab governments, however.

Opinion by Usama Makdisi

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