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  Sixty years ago, seven nations found common ground between themselves and a vision to form a union with its main goal to:
  
  “Serve the common good of all Arab countries, ensure better conditions for all Arab countries, guarantee the future of all Arab countries and fulfill the hopes and expectations of all Arab countries.”
 
  Thus was formed the Arab League.  
  Forty years ago, an equally ambitious and inspirational organisation was also formed, following a terrorist attack that severely damaged the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque. This new organisation stated as its main goal:
  
  "to promote solidarity among all member states; to consolidate cooperation among member states in economic, social, cultural, scientific, and other fields of activity; to endeavor to eliminate racial segregation and discrimination and to oppose colonialism in all its forms; to support the Palestinian people in their struggle to regain their national rights and to return to their homeland; and, to support all Muslim people in their struggle to safeguard their dignity, independence and national rights."
  
  Thus was formed the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body now officially recognized as having representation in the United Nations.
  
  With Islamic and Arab organisations already in existence with such aspirational and humanistic goals, why then does the world need another in the form of the Arabic Union?
  
22.24.1 The gulf between the rhetoric and the results of current Arab and Islamic organisations
  
  Not a week goes by now, without another act of murder, of terror, of innocence lost in some city, town and street in the Middle East and near Asia. The war in Iraq has taken a heavy toll in the lives of women and children as well as fighters. The battle for recognition and sovereign independence of the Palestinian state has also cost many lives. And for all the wonderful words spoken by the present international bodies that seek to represent the interests of Arab nations and Muslims what tangible results are evident after sixty years and forty years respectively?
  
  Is Palestine yet an independent state? Has the central issue of Jerusalem been settled in a peaceful and sustainable way? Have the living standards of the citizens of Arab and Islamic nations significantly improved? Has the good name of Islam been improved?
 
  On every single fundamental issue, on every single promise made some sixty and forty years ago, not one shred of tangible evidence of results, excepting regular meetings and endless paperwork has been achieved.
  
  Adding insult to injury, this impossibly poor track record has occurred at a period in history when the wealth of the region (thanks to oil revenues) has never been greater. How many then of the citizens of these nations have benefited personally from such wealth? Hundreds of millions?, tens of millions, a few hundred thousand or just a handful?
  
  So appalling has the leadership of these organisation been at addressing the deepest of issues important to its citizens that the citizens themselves have instead turned to radicals and revolutionaries in the hope that through their message of death and destruction that the world might wake up and listen to their needs.
  
  That is why, in the slums of Baghdad, Lahore, Gaza and the West Bank, Usama bin Laden is regarded as a great hero. Not because these people are somehow bloodthirsty barbarians, incapable of recognizing right from wrong, but because no one else has stepped in to try and effect real change in any meaningful way.
  
22.24.2 Are the citizens of Arab nations unique? Is the middle east an exception to the idea of democracy?
  
  Against the backdrop of missed opportunities, corruption and death another perverse debate has raged. It concerns the insane notion that somehow the citizens of Arab and Muslim nations are somehow unique to the rest of the world in wanting to be ruled by dictators, rather than controlling their destiny through democracy.
  
  Such insane arguments have found supporters on both sides of the war on terror, with both the leaders of some Western nations as well as fundamentalist religious leaders both claiming that democracy is a doomed “experiment” in the Middle East. For radicals, it is the goal of the pure Islamic autocracy- the great “caliphate”. To Western leaders it is a reminiscence to the old days of stable dictators who were prepared to do business, if only the West turned a “blind eye” to rampant corruption and poverty in their nations.
  
  But the true evil that pervades both sides of the argument is the absence of any real recognition of the voice of the very people on whose behalf both sides claim to be speaking.
 
  These are the very people who currently support the cause of the war against the West. These are the very people who give their sons and daughters up to be fighters and suicide bombers- not because they are without any moral sense, but because no other alternative of action is presented.
  
  In the case of Iraq, the proof of the strength of democracy in the face of sheer terror is evident by the enormous voter turnout to elections and the validation of the constitution, at considerable risk to their own lives. Few citizens of western nations have ever had to make such a choice- to risk their life to support the idea of having a say in their own future. While many still claim (and secretly hope) in democracy in Iraq failing, if the free citizens of Iraq have anything to say then democracy will be alive and well in that nation for many years to come, whether the Americans are there or not.

  
22.24.3 The Arabian Union and a positive plan for change
  
 
 
  The Arabic Union is a positive plan for change that recognizes the practical needs of all the citizens and the good government of sovereign states of Arab and Muslim nations in the region.
  
  The Union is one part of a complete plan aimed at fulfilling every single aspirational and positive hope of every good citizen in the Arab world and of Islam:
  
  - The freedom of Jerusalem through its recognition by the United Nations as an Independent State for all humanity, regardless of whether being Muslim, Christian or jew
  
  - The recognition and establishment of the Palestinian State
  
  - The formal structure of a united Islam (One-Islam) represented by the holiest, most honorable international leadership since its foundation, and to be a permanent member of the United Nations for every single Muslim;
  
  No other time in history, since the very beginning of Islam itself has such an ambitious plan been created. However, not only is the plan possible, this web site and all its connected sites represent the very real progress towards fulfilling these goals- within the next few years.
  
  The good people of the Arab nations have suffered enough lies, have suffered enough bloodshed and hunger. The Arabic Union will bring sustained and significant improvements in the quality of life for all. It will herald both the end days of the old, the corrupt and the deceitful and the new beginning for all.  
22.24.4 Will the leaders of Arab states respond?  
  There are those visionary leaders who recognize that great change is upon us. It is hoped that they will embrace the idea of the Arabian Union and help its birth. For others, change will come only through the revolution of the masses in overthrowing regimes incapable of recognizing the time for change.  
  Whatever the mechanism, now is the time. Our future does not have to be another five, ten or sixty years of endless hollow promises. If we seize the moment, such promises through the Arabian Union, One Jerusalem and One Islam can be real within a very short time.  
     
     
 
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