Millions listened to the closing statement of this week’s Arab Summit, which undoubtedly showed great progress in its tone and the seriousness of its objections to the criminal Zionist actions across all of Palestine, all of Lebanon and, more lately, all of Syria. The attendees’ position on the unacceptable statements made by the US president was categorical rejection.

However, there is no doubt that, in many respects, the statement fell far below the level expected by the overwhelming majority of the Arab people. I want to focus on a critical aspect of the statement, and summarise what I believe is a shortcoming in the form of a question. If it remains unanswered, then the statement becomes a theoretical, objectionable discourse suspended in the Arab political air, and neither the Zionist state nor America will care about it.

The question is this: Shouldn’t the statement have set out what the signatories will do if the colonial Zionist regime and the United States reject all of its content?

The Zionist entity, remember, has rejected all of the Palestinian concessions made in all of the Oslo negotiations for over a third of a century, and whenever the Palestinians give up a right or part of what remains of their homeland, it demands more concessions, all the while building illegal settlements for more than a million Jewish immigrants in the occupied West Bank.

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