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with victories on the soccer courts, with
music summits and with Arab and
Muslim summits. Where are the sum-
mits? -Where are their decisions?"
The basic objections to a Palestine
entity by the neighboring states are
that such a state, if and when it comes
into existence, will be under interna-
tional pressure — with Israel as a
model — to be democratic in nature.
By its very existence, the state will
constitute a challenge to the existing
autocratic Muslim governments.
That is one fundamental reason for
their objection to Israel's presence in the
area as well. Underground revolt move-
ments will draw inspiration from the
Palestinian demonstration that Islam and
democracy need not be contradictory.
Israel's presence here has been bad
enough, one of the few countries in
the Middle East where Muslim women
can vote. In Saudi Arabia, where a
secret underground movement is said
to exist, King Fand has been quoted as
saying that next to the Jews, he hates
the Palestinians the most. This, because
of what they have learned from Israel
during their exposure to it.
Further, they are well aware that a
tiny Palestine state, squeezed alongside
Israel, can never be viable. With no
natural resources, no water, no nation-
al tradition of self-government, the lit-
tle state will constitute a perpetual
drain on their resources.
It is obvious that many of the Arab
states are armed to the teeth. Over a
10-year period, the U.S. has provided
11 Middle Eastern states — Saudi,
Egypt, Kuwait, United Arab Emirate,
Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman,
Yemen, Qatar and including Israel —
with more than 74 billion dollars'
worth of arms and military training.
There has been an enormous stockpil-
ing of armaments, but acute observers
believe the menace is not to Israel.
The Muslim states know that in the
event of a regional war, the U.S.
would support -Israel. Besides, they
have already experienced disastrous
defeats in previous assaults on Israel.
Their defense is against threats from
within, on the one hand from revolu-
tionary, pro-democratic movements, and
on the other hand, from rogue states.
They have not forgotten Iraq's sudden
invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and the
threat to Saudi Arabia at the same time.
Kathleen Christison, author of

Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on
U.S. Middle East Policy, put it very well:
"Most of the Arab states that purchase
arms in such large quantities do indeed
see the arms as some kind of guarantee
of their own internal stability"

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