this isn't what we aspire to, your highnesses..

So, the GCC council meeting is coming up soon.

And once again, all we get to see on the TV and other types of media is what we always see, a group of high class people sitting together, probably waving at the cameras and at other royal guests whilst smiling off to the lenses and a small statement at the end of the summit stating that the gathering had brought Their Highnesses together - yet again - in an ambiance of brotherhood noting how nothing can divide these neighborhood nations ever as long as there is a GCC council that heads them all, and all that razzmatazz.

This year, the GCC council summit will be held at the Saudi capital, Riyadh and will notably discuss regional and global issues (as if).

Regrettably though, what the recommendations that are made by the Foreign Affairs ministers of the GCC countries haven't held up to what the nations or the people of the region aspire to.

They have already announced that this summit will discuss the railway link that will connect all the GCC countries and some Arabian countries and blocs. Along with the rumor that Oman has put in a formal request to the GCC economic council that it is to withdraw from the GCC currency project - somehow, I always kind of tell myself, wasn't Oman the one to suggest the project?

A series of condemnations and demands have already been preset for the GCC leaders to read out at the end of the summit; like demanding that Iran halts it's illegal occupation of the United Arab Emirates islands, Small Tanab; Large Tanab; and Abu Moosa (loosely translated), along with calling to the halt of the daily massacres that are happening in Iraq, and calling off the Intifadha in Occupied Palestine.

Something we have come to always hear that the only effect it ever has, is the ever deepening lingering feeling that we live in countries that care not about their Arab neighbors to push away the puppeteers' hands and actually commit to some action.

That is what I aspire from our great leaders, and not more industrialization, not more money for me, not more skyscrapers, not more blood at the price of innocent dying people who have done nothing wrong but ask for their basic rights back - what was taken away by power, will, one day, be given back, by power.

But don't ever come to us and say that you are doing what the nations aspire you to do. Because it has nothing to do with that.

An empire will crumble
The loss will be double
But give my hand, I will not
Surrender myself, only to God

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Links:

- GCC considers railway link-up

- GCC website