By Mohi Eddin Ghunaim \u2013 Jordan
\nThere is no longer room in the heart for hollow slogans, nor in the mind the ability to believe the myths we were fed about \u201cone Arab nation\u201d and a \u201cshared destiny.\u201d Today, as I watch southern Lebanon burn under the fire of aggression, and see the southern suburbs reduced to rubble over the heads of their residents, only one question gnaws at my conscience: Where are the Arabs?
\nWhen were we ever \u201cthe best nation brought forth to mankind\u201d? Was it in the era of timid statements? Or in the age of pale condemnations that neither nourish nor satisfy? Or when innocent blood became mere numbers in news bulletins\u2014read without trembling, forgotten without shame?
\nSouthern Lebanon is not burning alone\u2026 with it burn all claims of brotherhood, all speeches of unity, and all the fiery poetry that echoed in our ears for decades. There, in the devastated villages, people are not searching for resolutions from Arab summits, but for a roof to shelter their children, and for a homeland that is not bombed whenever the war machine decides to display its power.
\nSystematic displacement, cold-blooded killing, destruction of infrastructure, and the targeting of civilians\u2026 all of this unfolds before a world that claims civilization, and Arabs who claim belonging. But the painful truth is that Arab silence is no longer mere incapacity\u2014it has become complicity through silence, an undeclared betrayal of everyone bleeding there.
\nPalestine is lost\u2026 yes, it was lost when it was left alone to face the machinery of death. And today, Lebanon walks the same path, while we settle for watching\u2014or worse, for division, accusations, and settling petty scores at the expense of greater causes.
\nWhat kind of Arabism is this that does not rise to support the oppressed? What dignity remains for a nation unmoved by the cries of children beneath the rubble? If Arabism means this silence, this helplessness, this hypocrisy\u2014then I declare it without hesitation: I have lost faith in an Arabism that neither protects, nor supports, nor even protests.
\nWhat is happening in southern Lebanon is not a passing act of aggression\u2014it is a moral test, one in which we have all failed. Either we redefine the meaning of belonging and reclaim the minimum of dignity, or we admit that we are no longer a nation, but merely scattered peoples united by name and divided by interests.
\nHistory will not be merciful, and future generations will not forgive. A day will come when every silent person will be asked: Why were you silent\u2026 when you could have raised your voice?
\nSouthern Lebanon is burning\u2026 is there anything left in us that deserves to be called Arabism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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