konflik negara arab

Konflik antar negara Arab: Mesir serang Iran

Reuters
28 January 2009

Banyak yang tidak tahu bahwa negara Arab tidak satu dalam dukungan terhadap Hamas. Ini contoh perkembangan terakhir, dari Reuters. Mesir berada di sisi moderat dan tidak mendukung tindakan Hamas, Hezbollah (Lebanon) dan Iran. Tapi Mesir juga menentang Qatar yang dituduh sombong karena punya saluran TV Al-Jazeera. Mesir dan Arab Saudi di satu pihak baru menyelesaikan pertemuan rekonsiliasi dengan Qatar dan Syria ... baca selanjutnya. Mungkin berguna, kalau anda bukan ahli Timur Tengah.
Egypt attacks Iran and allies in Arab world
Wed Jan 28, 2009
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt aired its grievances against Iran, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, saying they worked together in the fighting over Gaza to provoke conflict in the Middle East.
"(They tried) to turn the region to confrontation in the interest of Iran, which is trying to use its cards to escape Western pressure ... on the nuclear file," Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in an interview with Orbit satellite channel broadcast Wednesday.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Aboul Gheit also said that Egypt undermined Qatar's attempts to arrange a formal Arab summit on Gaza earlier this month, arguing that it would have damaged "joint Arab action."
"Egypt made the summit fail... This summit, if it had taken place as an Arab summit with a proper quorum, would have damaged joint Arab action. We can see what others do not see," he said.
The interview was broadcast Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning and the state news agency MENA carried excerpts.
The comments are the first acknowledgement by Egypt that it actively sought to prevent the Doha summit on January 16, which was the subject of a bitter tug-of-war between rival Arab states.