The Leader's Death Does Not Mean the End of the Organization
The article examines regional reactions to the reported killing of al-Baghdadi, allegations about control of Syrian oil, worries about new militant reorganizations, and criticism of Arab League silence and the sidelining of Palestine.
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Trump's share of ending al-Baghdadi's life (if that is true...and many doubt it)...is Syria's oil...as if it were his farm...and our Arab League still raises a veto on readmitting the State of Syria to the League's fold!!!
This phrase ("the end of the leader...does not mean the end of the organization")!!! was issued by an Israeli newspaper today according to Al-Quds Al-Maqdisi newspaper today, Tuesday 29/10, in the "Israeli Affairs" page... As Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the killing of al-Baghdadi is in reality a victory for President Trump in his leadership of the international coalition... yet Sunni terrorism and Shiite terrorism still threaten the world... The Kremlin also announced that if the killing of al-Baghdadi is true then that would be considered a victory for President Trump in his war on terrorism... It is clear that the event is being instrumentalized by most parties in the region in praising President Trump and thereby his Republican Party for his victory... over the elimination of terrorism... Yet President Trump announced that he demands his share of Syria's oil... meaning that Syria must pay for al-Baghdadi's killing... and therefore he controls or may have long since controlled the oil wells and the areas close to drilling in the region northeast of Syria... and in addition... his hand is controlling the Iraqi oil wells... It is not unlikely that a new organization will be created under a new leadership... to distribute the remnants of the Daesh members, some of whom are in the prisons of the Syrian Kurds or in areas controlled by Turkey in what it calls the "safe zone," and to send them via an Application called "fighting terrorism" to Libya.... to protect democracy there and Libya is a significant oil state... In addition there is the possibility of announcing vacancies for jobs with President Trump's group (Americans and Arabs and others) in the new organization expected to be created... in some area of the Arab Middle East... Exactly as happened in an earlier period when thousands of those called "mujahidin" came forward to be employed — and it was said they volunteered — to defend Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation!! Long ago... and the American consulates in many countries then were crowded... especially Jeddah... where visas to travel to America were given to those poor people...!! to train them in camps in America then send them to the battlefield in Afghanistan under the leadership of the late Osama bin Laden... to defend Islam there...!! ..Glory be to God..
And I was stopped by a phrase of American President Trump when he said about Syria's oil that the Syrian Kurds have a right in it and that they must protect the wells.. to please them... after he abandoned them.. because they did not fight with him in the Normandy war more than eight decades ago!!!
A contempt for the sovereignty of states and for international law and a contempt for the Arab nation when he gifted the occupied Syrian Golan to Israel.. he is dividing the spoils
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The venerable Arab League... must speak... and say anything... just to make us feel that there is at least some suppression of rage... Silence and quiet are not golden now, by God...!!. By God, Arabism is in a dangerous plight... when the near, coming scene is the fragmentation of Arab states and the erasure of others' existence... and the creation of a new organizational structure for the Arab region: classification "C" i.e., no administrative or security sovereignty by the Arab states over them... similar to the Israeli classification for areas in Palestine...!!.. Do not be surprised...... As for the issue of Palestine... in the new criteria forget it... as one person in the region and one of our own said... that Israel does not constitute a danger.. the greater danger is Iran and its weapons of mass destruction....!!
We welcome the holding of elections in Palestine.. perhaps we may speak in our own special and responsible way on behalf of the Arab League... to stop the phenomenon of forgetting the issue of Palestine... ...and placing it on the shelf... as appears from some widely circulated Arab media....!!
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “The Leader's Death Does Not Mean the End of the Organization” (English translation of «نهاية الزعيم...لا تعني نهاية التنظيم», originally published 15 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/the-leaders-death-does-not-mean-the-end
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