The current workshop aimed at resolving Arab issues is moving at an unprecedented pace. This speed may suggest that we are facing easy matters and roads without barriers and obstacles. But the truth is that we are confronting severe obstacles and a determined will. The method clearly reflects the character of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who considers stalling a waste of time, and time drain is the greatest loss.
There is no easy issue on the table, whether it’s related to the return of Syria to its “Arab surrounding” and not only to the Arab League, the Lebanese crisis, the return of the displaced, Syria’s reconstruction, or the reorganization of the Arab-Iranian atmosphere or any other bilateral or collective environment.
However, the energy that Crown Prince Mohammad used as a measure for break down accumulated crises, predicts that the Arabs will reach the Riyadh summit next month, while they have agreed on a solution to most of the urgent and very dangerous matters. It is true that there are differences in viewpoints and positions, but the general principles are indisputable.
To get a clearer idea of what is going on, it is better to read the Jeddah statement carefully. There are no repetitive general expressions, nor the usual courtesies, but rather a project and detailed commitments that are commensurate with the challenges that have been tearing the region apart for years.
One dynamic moved diplomacies in geopolitics throughout China, Russia, Ankara, Muscat, Cairo, Damascus and Tehran, and occupied Washington, Paris and London.
Never before has the Middle East workshop been so extensive and so serious.
The Riyadh summit will be held while the Arab world witnesses an unprecedented scene of reconciliation, the revival of normal ties, and the beginning of a true partnership towards development, away from essays and embellished rhetoric that add nothing to an overflowed archive of statements.
The Jeddah statement is a historical turning point in addressing issues and informing people of what they should know. That is, allowing them to understand what is being done in their name, and in what way, because seeing the causes of disagreement is as beneficial as knowing the points of concord.
There is no time to waste. Within a short period of time, the embassies swapped prisoners and exchanged initiatives. This is a new culture in Arab political action, whether it is among the Arabs themselves or between them and the international powers, the old and the new.
In the past, Arab summits entrenched differences and polemics. We will witness a summit that is held with the aim to act and to succeed.
