Last October, during a debate, Tunisian presidential candidate Qais Said said, “Normalization [with Israel] is high treason, and those who are dealing with an entity that have displaced and annihilated an entire people must be brought to trial. The word normalization is an inherently wrong word, we are in a state of war with a usurping entity.”
Qais Said won the election and is now president of Tunisia.
And he hasn’t said a negative word about the United Arab Emirates plan to normalize relations with Israel.
Tunisians have noticed, and reporters try to contact the president for a statement, but he has not returned their calls.
This is similar to the silence of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, both of which would routinely issue anti-Israel statements for years and both of which are now silent, much to the frustration of the PLO which used to be able to dictate to them what to do:
The State of Palestine summoned its ambassador to the UAE and demanded the UAE to retract its position. The leadership called on other Arab countries might take a similar step and called upon the Arab League to respect the will of its people; to put an end to such a unilateral and irresponsible behavior and to abide by its charter based on the foundations of Arab solidarity and the joint and unified Arab position. The leadership called for immediate emergency sessions of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to address this matter.
It is a new world.
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