Turki al-Faisal
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What Do We Want?

We want complete and genuine peace around us and throughout the world. How can we achieve that?

First, Iran must abandon its ambition to dominate the world under the doctrine of Wilayat al-Faqih (the Guardianship of the Jurist). It must recognize that its recruitment of militias such as the so-called Hezbollah, the Houthis, and all the armed factions affiliated with it in Iraq and elsewhere is what fuels bloodshed and claims the lives of those it calls the oppressed.

Instead, it should join the path of development and social progress, taking its place alongside the world's other nations.

Second, Israel must abandon its Talmudic ambitions, end its bloody brutality, and cease its seizure of Arab lands in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. This barbarism has made Israel and its people pariahs in the eyes of the world, with many of its citizens fearing visits to other countries lest they be arrested on charges of genocide against the Palestinian people. The hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who continue to march through the streets of cities around the world denouncing Israel's occupation of Palestine are the clearest evidence of the world's rejection of Israel's bloody actions.

Third, the West must stop indulging Israel and shielding it from censure and condemnation in United Nations Security Council meetings. It must stop providing Israel with money, weapons, and even volunteers.

Such indulgence, protection, and armament enable Israel to disregard all humanitarian standards and divine laws in pursuit of its ambitions.

Fourth, the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council states must criminalize any abuse or insults directed, through social media, at any individual from any GCC state, whether young or old. Citizens of the GCC states must rise above attacking or insulting fellow citizens of other GCC countries. The GCC states must also adopt a joint defense network capable of repelling any aggressor against any one of them.

The GCC states have endured enough attacks. They must stand like a solid wall against all those who covet them or harbor hostility toward them.

As the popular saying goes: one hand cannot clap.