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09 May, 2008
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May, 09, 2008
As the oil prices reach almost $125 a barrel the Arab oil producing countries are reaping unbelievable wealth, at the same time their brethren in Egypt where having riots over bread and at the border of Saudi Arabia last week 18 Yemenis hiding in a hole from the Saudi border police where sprayed with gas and set on fire when they refused to come out of the hole they where are hiding in and were burned and are in special burn unit hospitals in Yemen.
A sane man will ask the question why Arab oil producing countries awash with wealth will stand by while their poor brethren are living in poverty never seen before, last year Indians working in these wealthy countries remittance was more then $7 billion dollars sent to India.
While the Saudi
border guards are busy chasing Yemenis immigrants running away from poverty
with fire torches’, Filipinos immigrants are entering the Kingdom in 747 planes
with visa issued by the Saudi governments.
The policy makers in these countries are weakening their own national security when neighboring countries are drowning in poverty and await help from western governments with conditional monetary Aids to keep afloat.
Why did these countries stand bye as Iraq was destroyed and giving to the shitte and Persian extremist , Iraq was the power balance that kept Iran in check , now these countries are exposed and must buy protection from world powers and appease Iran on many things.
The wealthy Arab countries should shore up countries like Egypt, Yemen, Jordan etc, in order to keep them from compromising the security of the whole region due to their poverty which makes them dependent to other countries.
To all the rich Arab countries review your policies in investing or at least letting these wretched souls enter your countries to work and improve the conditions, conditions that lead to 10 Egyptians to die in bread lines and 18 Yemenis burned alive by brotherly border guards on the Saudi borders.
Omar Jarallah