Why do Arab leaders enable Israeli war crimes?

The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act
Robert Fisk, The Independent, 1 January 2009

To admit that Egypt can’t even open its sovereign border without permission from Washington tells you all you need to know about the powerlessness of the satraps that run the Middle East for us.

Open the Rafah gate – or break off relations with Israel – and Egypt’s economic foundations crumble. Any Arab leader who took that kind of step will find that the West’s economic and military support is withdrawn. Without subventions, Egypt is bankrupt. [Read Robert Fisk’s article]

Egypt’s welfare bill is “$1.3 billion a year in military aid since 1979, and an average of $815 million a year in economic assistance,” courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Arab leaders choose to ferment division along religious lines, enable humanitarian holocausts that promise to end only in their eventual, collective demise, rather than form an economic union independent of U.S. constraints.

The Arab League could assume bills of this nature as it pursues alternatives to current trade deals rather than continue to oppress the citizens of the countries they claim to represent, the refugees cleansed, incarcerated, waiting decades to be freed, and the immigrants imported for slave labour.

Such a move would have wide popular support and in their long term self-interest as the current system implodes. The selfish satraps apparently prefer inaugural parties, private contract lobbying and critical shopping sprees paid for with the blood and treasure of its victims to constructing policies that would alleviate their suffering.