The Doha summit of long-winded rhetoric but no action

Crescent International

Rabi' al-Awwal 22, 1447 2025-09-15

Daily News Analysis

by Crescent International

As far as summits go, the Doha summit on September 15 was strong on fanfare and weak on action.

It brought together members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Arab League.

The number of heads of state or government attending was impressive.

Did they come up with any actionable plan?

Perish the thought.

The Arabian rulers appealed to the US, the “international community”, whatever animal it may mean, and the UN Security Council to assume their responsibilities.

The host, Qatari Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani lamented the fact that while his country was hosting a delegation of Hamas negotiators to respond to Donald Trump’s latest ceasefire proposal, Israel attacked “a residence housing the families of Hamas leaders and their negotiating delegation.”

Sheikh Tamim added that Israel was not interested in ending the war in Gaza, as it was trying “to thwart the negotiations”.

So, how did he plan to confront the zionist assault on Qatar’s sovereignty?

There was not a word.

Other Arabian rulers were equally evasive about what they planned to do about Israeli aggression.

If they thought rhetorical volleys would scare the war criminals in Tel Aviv, the same day, zionist Israel killed another 51 Palestinians in Gaza.

Several high rise apartment buildings were also bombed and destroyed in Gaza City.

The strongest words of condemnation and practical suggestions came from the leaders of Iran, Iraq, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said “… that Islamic countries cut their ties with this fake regime and maintain unity and cohesion as much as possible.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said “The current conditions call for moving from condemnation to coordinated collective action.”

He proposed forming “a joint Arab-Islamic committee to convey our position to the UN Security Council and General Assembly, the European Union and other international for a.”

Unfortunately, such international bodies will not do anything to rein in the zionist monster.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said “Our people have become wary of words. They have watched us issue condemnation after condemnation, declaration after declaration, while Israel escalates with impunity, as future generations will ask whether we found the courage to act. We do not ask nations to go beyond their basic obligations,” he said.

“Condemnations will not stop the missiles. Declarations will not free Palestine. Severe, punitive actions must be put in place. Diplomatic engagements must cease, and so must relations with Israel,” he added.

There was defeaning silence from the signatories of the Abraham Accords: the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco to such a call.

And the Saudi crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman (MbS) though in attendance, opted not to address the gathering at all.

Why was he so afraid to not even condemn the zionists’ criminal act against a fellow Arabian country?

Let us be clear, Israeli war planes flew over Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq to attack Qatar.

British aerial tankers that refuelled Israeli warplanes on their return journey had taken on fuel from Qatar.

True to form, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan was strong on rhetoric but his actions belied his words.

“We are dealing with a terrorist mindset that thrives on chaos and bloodshed, embodied in a state. This mindset, which openly violates the UN charter and challenges the rules-based international system, survives because its crimes go unpunished,” he said.

“There is a greedy, bloodthirsty mentality among Israeli officials,” he added, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime of seeking to continue massacres and drag the region into chaos.

The Doha attack has taken “Israel’s banditry” to a new level, Erdogan said.

“Economic pressure must be exerted on Israel, and past experience has proven the success of such pressure,” he said, adding that “we cannot accept the displacement of the Palestinian people, their genocide or partition”.

If he really means what he says, Erdogan should stop his burgeoning trade relations with the zionist entity.

He can start with cutting off oil supplies to the zionist monstrosity and follow it up by ending the supply of steel.

The Doha gathering once again showed the collective impotence of Arabian and Muslim regimes, barring a few exceptions.

If this was all they were capable of doing, it may have been better not to have called the meeting at all.

It merely exposed their collective weakness.

And far from deterring the zionist war criminals, they will be emboldened by the lack of action from more than 57 Muslim and Arab nation states.