But in Gaza, things are not looking good and the deafening official silence from nearly all around the Arab world, as it ignores the horror of the Israeli-imposed siege of Gaza, is a symptom of how many Arab States have been hoping that Hamas would just fade away. They are very worried by its radical and religious ideology and want it to fail.
Russia yesterday moved to expand its growing military influence in the Middle East when it announced it is giving Lebanon 10 fighter jets, in the most significant upgrade of Lebanon's military since the civil war ended almost two decades ago.
Popular resistance against the normalization with Israel is growing in the Arab world
Manama, 9 December – Badriya Ahmad, head of the Bahrain Society to Resist Normalization with the Zionist Enemy, informed that a special committee has been set up to help lift the embargo on the Gaza Strip and to support the Palestinian people.
Arab world accused of supporting human rights abuses The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies has issued a scathing report on the state of human rights in the Arab world, saying that the situation has deteriorated greatly over the past year and the future of reforms in the region is not promising.