The Arab world’s top think-tank establishment on March 21 said that the latest spate of Arab revolts would lead to the emergence of a Pan-Arab gathering that “changes the balance of power” in the Arab-Israeli conflict. “The uprisings of the Arab youth have demonstrated the joint concerns and dreams of the Arab world and enhanced the possibility of the emergence of an Arab bloc that changes the balance of forces in the Arab region,” the Amman-based Arab Thought Forum (ATF) said in a statement. “These uprisings have also introduced a new element in international calculations and the proposed solutions for our main causes, foremost the Palestinian question and the US occupation of Iraq,” it added.
The ATF referred to the military supremacy which Israel came to maintain over all Arab states in the past decades and which enabled the Jewish state to continue the occupation of territories of three Arab states since the 1967 Middle East war.“The balance of power in the region deviated from the logic of right and justice over the past several decades,” the statement said.
The forum appealed to the intellectuals of the Arab nation to “work out researches and studies that enable this mobility in the Arab world to come up with the necessary reforms in all spheres, while protecting the rights of the nation, particularly those pertaining to the Palestinian question.” It stressed the need for the adoption of democratic standards and a civil society values that limit the powers of presidents by constitutional restrictions.