Doha: Arab League Secretary-General, H E Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, condemned the Israeli crime of attacking Qatar’s sovereignty as a grave violation of all human principles and civilized norms - especially the long-standing rule against targeting mediators or negotiators. Addressing the summit yesterday, Aboul-Gheit said the most dangerous thing in this aggression was that the perpetrator of the barbaric attack considered his act justified under any pretext, imagining he could slide into unprecedented levels of savagery and brazen violation of established norms with impunity.
Attacking peaceful people, negotiators, and mediators has nothing to do with courage or honour; it is nothing but baseness and cowardice, while boasting and flaunting such acts reflects a level of moral decay rarely, if ever, seen in relations among nations, Aboul-Gheit highlighted. He affirmed that the summit did not convene merely to show solidarity with Qatar, which is a duty for every Arab and Muslim whose conscience is stirred by the sight of this cowardly and despicable act, but also to send a clear message to the international community on the urgent need to end the silence toward the conduct of this rogue state, which has set the region ablaze, killed the innocent, and displaced and starved peaceful people to serve the personal ambitions of its leaders or their perverse ideologies, in a brazen attempt to return the world to the law of the jungle. He pointed out that silence in the face of criminality is itself a crime, and that remaining silent on violations of law undermines the entire international order, reminding that two full years of silence on the crimes in Gaza instilled in the occupation’s leaders the belief that any act is possible, and any crime can go unpunished.
They thus persisted in spreading destruction from one country to another, setting the entire region ablaze, as if the world had returned to the ages of barbarism and darkness after believing it had long left them behind, he said.
Aboul-Gheit further stressed that those who lead the occupying state are liable before the International Criminal Court (ICC), and today have added a new crime to their record. He called on all defenders of law and principled actors across the world to unite in pursuing all war criminals accused of committing genocide in Gaza, and of violating the sovereignty of several states in the region.
