SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Prominent Christian Arab Columbia Professor Joseph Massad says that Arab countries should really stop complaining about getting bombed by Iran.

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Prominent Christian Arab Columbia Professor Joseph Massad says that Arab countries should really stop complaining about getting bombed by Iran. Quote: It should be clear to Arab countries hosting US bases that the American presence does not protect them but places them and their populations in grave danger. Without these bases, they would have been immune to Iranian retaliation. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has never attacked any country, including the Gulf Arab countries and Jordan – which provided massive financial, military, logistical, propaganda and diplomatic support for Iraq's unprovoked invasion of Iran between 1980 and 1988, which killed more than a million people. Iran did not retaliate against them even once, as Iraq launched its invasion from its own territory, not from these Arab countries. It is the Arab countries that have threatened Iran and supported aggression against it ever since the triumph of its revolution against the American-backed, Israel-allied dictatorship of the Shah. Since 1981, the Saudis have advanced an Arab strategy – first presented by then Crown Prince Fahd – of normalising ties with Israel to contain an alleged Iranian threat and to convince the Arab peoples that Iran, not Israel, is the major enemy of the Arab nation, even though Israel, then and now, has always threatened both Arab countries and Iran. Fahd's initiative was revived in Crown Prince Abdullah's so-called Arab Peace Plan in 2002. That all these Arab concessions to Israel and Arab collusion against Iran have only further endangered Arab states and the Palestinians – now being subjected to genocide – has not deterred Arab rulers. Indeed, this week, their ambassadors appealed to Russia to pressure Iran to halt its retaliation targeting US installations in their countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reminded them that they have sided with the US-Israeli aggression against Iran from day one, and their pretence of neutrality is just that. If the damage they have suffered during this war does not convince these Arab states that the true threat to their safety is their alliance with the United States and Israel, then nothing will. End Quote

2:48 AM · Mar 15, 2026