Arab and Muslim states looking for independence and self reliance

 Commentary: A new ‘NATO of the East’? Why the Mecca pact isn’t quite what it seems

The agreement signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan is an experiment in regional self-reliance, says this professor. KAMLOOPS, Canada: Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan have signed the Mecca Joint Defence Pact, a new collective defence arrangement that connects the Middle East with South Asia. Its central promise is striking: An armed attack against any one of the three countries will be treated as an attack against them all. This language has prompted comparisons with NATO, whose members make a similar commitment under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.

By bringing together a major global oil producer (Saudi Arabia), a NATO member with an expanding defence industry (Türkiye) and a nuclear-armed state (Pakistan), this agreement has the potential to reshape security dynamics across the Middle East, South Asia and the Indian Ocean. CNA

The Arab and Muslim states are showing signs of independence and wanting to chart their own future. This is a good start. For a long time, all international institutions and organisations were cooked by the Americans to serve the American interests, not the interests of the sucker countries they roped in as members. The Arabs were like the sheep, being led into all sort of silly organisations by the Americans and Israelis, telling them that the organisations are good for them. 

It is good that the Arab and Muslim states are starting to form organisations of their own to serve their own interests. But they must always beware of the American and Israeli terrorists operating behind the curtain to hijack whatever they created. They must always be on guard for traitors, sleepers and moles.

Many international organisations are cropping up without the Americans in them today. Countries of the world have many bad experiences of being played by the Americans inside out and outside in and are wary of the American terrorists. The signs are all there. Where the American terrorists cannot control international organisations they will walk out, stop funding, or start to attack such institutions.

Hope the Arab and Muslim states can find their own feet and chart their own destiny without being the puppets of the American and Israeli terrorists.

What is the threat of this Mecca Joint Defence Pact or who is it directed against? It is high time that the Arab and Muslim states get their acts together, work together as one unified force instead of being played by the Americans and Israelis to fight among themselves and kill themselves for the interests of the Americans and Israelis.