Palestinians: The Arabs Do Not Care about Us

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  March 7, 2018 at 5:00 am

• The Palestinians appear to be the only ones in the Arab world who are coming out on a daily basis against a plan no one has seen.
• This Arab apathy towards the Palestinians is the result of a long-standing belief in the Arab world that the Palestinians are an ungrateful people who do not hesitate to bite the hand that feeds them.
• When Trump finally does announce his Middle East peace plan, the Palestinians will discover that they are alone in threatening to thwart it.

Arab apathy towards the Palestinians is the result of a long-standing belief that the Palestinians do not hesitate to bite the hand that feeds them. Palestinian support for Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait was the turning point in relations between the Arab countries and the Palestinians. Pictured: Yasser Arafat with then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in 1988. (Photo via Getty Images)

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been working hard to persuade the Arab countries to support its position in the standoff with the US administration.

The PA leadership in Ramallah fears that without the backing of the Arab countries, the US administration will "impose" President Donald Trump's "deal of the century" -- the yet-to-be-announced plan for peace in the Middle East.

The Arab countries, however, appear to be preoccupied with other matters. For now, the Palestinians are getting much lip service from their Arab brothers, including promises to put pressure on the Trump administration possibly to "modify" its plan to make it less "harmful" to Palestinian demands and aspirations.

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