The Arab League has decided to take a lesson from the current revolts in the Middle East and transform itself into something more than a group that always bends to the will of world leaders. The members within the Arab League want to reform the organisation into a unified voice that stands for the Arab public.
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Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General and the joint UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, resigned from his position after all his attempts to achieve ceasefire in Syria failed. On announcing his resignation on August 2, 2012, Annan said that divisions within the United Nations Security Council were not conducive to presenting a unified approach to prevent fighting in Syria.
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The Palestinian authority is urgently seeking an Arab League summit in Cairo, with the agenda of the summit being a discussion on the growing hostilities between the two Middle East countries and devising methods to bring truce among them.
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One of the most important decisions taken by the American President, Barack Obama, after being re-elected for the second term would be the US intervention in the Syrian crisis. The United States says that it would need a well-organised structural and functional opposition in Syria to resist the violence of Assad’s regime and also to look after the welfare of the people.
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Finally, the massive massacre caused by the Israel-Hamas rocket fights has come to a halt and normal life has started gaining momentum for the civilians. After the ceasefire that was declared by the Egyptian government on 21st November, there has been a check on the cross-border fight between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian party that had forcefully seized Gaza in 2007.
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The crossfire between Palestine and Israel has been continuously escalating at the obvious expense of lives in both Israel and Palestine. The blame-game seems to have reopened all the past issues and constant air-strikes is said to have killed at least 140 Palestinians and 5 Israelis. As many as 27 children have also lost their lives in this clash.
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On Nov 13, France became the first western country to give formal recognition to Syria’s newly-formed opposition coalition and acknowledge this group as the solitary lawful representative of the Syrian people.
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The war in Syria is no longer a civil war but a full-fledged ethnic conflict. Several thousands have lost lives, while thousands of others have been rendered homeless, with many fleeing across the Syrian border every day. As the war continues to wage on, there is a growing need for a more involved participation of human rights watch groups in the country.
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The ongoing civil war in Syria has had a major impact on the financial status of the country, lending its currency much weaker, expanding recession and wrecking the country’s tourism industry. Estimated to amount to over 2000 billion Syrian pounds, which is almost $30 billion, these losses have led to a deeper crisis. Amid an array of dreary economic policies and various international sanctions, investors are wary of the market while households are indisposed to spending.
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A civil war that has claimed thousands of lives and rendered lakhs of people homeless is also the reason behind the mass destruction of many Syrian cities, which includes both big and small cities. People are fleeing the country and seeking refuge in neighbouring nations, and these people are consequently finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the existing situation. And if the Syrian government resorts to using chemical weapons, as is being predicted and feared, the aftermath is going to be very ugly and worse than the present situation.
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