Democratic Palestine : 35 (ص 27)
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- Democratic Palestine : 35 (ص 27)
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The Arab economies’ subordination to the capitalist strategy
has strengthened the position of the Arab comprador that in
turn furthers subordination to the international capitalist
economy. Increasing capital accumulation in the hands of the
bourgeoisie was matched by further empoverishment of the
vast majority of the population. This is the background for the
bread revolts that have taken place in Morocco, Sudan, Tunis,
Egypt and Jordan. Even Algeria, which has followed a
relatively independent course of development, was not immune
to this phenomenon.
THE POLITICAL LEVEL
Although the Arab region became better off economically
during the oil era, this also marked the beginning of the
political decline of the Arab order. The oil era, led by the Arab
capitalists, was full of national catastrophes.
In 1973, the Arab states enacted an oil embargo against the
capitalist states that supported Israel, at a time when the US
was importing more than one-fourth of its total oil imports
from Arab countries. But, thanks to the insistence of the Saudi
king and Egypt’s Sadat, the embargo was lifted in early 1974.
Saudi Arabia became the oil reserve that provided the capitalist
countries with any amount any time. Prince Fahd signed an
agreement with US President Ford in 1975, whereby Saudi
Arabia was committed to not raising the oil prices by more
than 5% until 1984.
From that time on, Saudi Arabia has hosted a US military
base, and later bought the AWACS that are run by US military
personnel. Meanwhile, Jordan was involved in joint military
maneuvers with the US. Egypt signed the Camp David accords
which marked a turning point in the Arab-Zionist conflict.
Thus, Egypt broke decisively with the Arab national security
doctrine of collective defense against foreign aggression, for
Camp David involved military alliance with the US and peace
with the Zionist enemy that continued to occupy Palestine and
other Arab territories. On the economic level, the Camp David
alliance was symbolized by the opening of the American
Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, for coordinating the interests
of US capital and the Egyptian business class spawned by the
regime.
The Arab world was further humiliated when Israel bombed
the nuclear reactor in Iraq and the PLO headquarters in Tunis,
and the US airforce raided Libya, not to mention the US-
backed Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARAB ORDER
The Arab order was established in the period between 1945
and 1955, after a number of countries achieved political in- >
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Jaber Al Sabah in Cairo, August 1989 - هو جزء من
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