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Two years ago, almost to the day, the world’s attention turned to Baghdad amid its efforts to further peace. It held an exceptional summit at an exceptional time. Overcoming deep polarization was its agenda, as my brothers and I, alongside the rulers of neighboring countries, worked tirelessly to achieve this pivotal objective for the public interest. ....
A This column does not claim to provide a conclusive answer, and it does not entail any a priori value judgments. The only thing it does is question and call for asking questions regarding us, as Arabs, the state of justice in the world today, and/ or the extent to which we are ready to integrate into this world. Let us revise some of the significant events of a deep “miscomprehension” from which a deeper “misunderstanding” arose, one whose effects remain palpable today. After the First World War, the Arabs, both as elites and peoples, objected to what the wars’ victors had done through the League of Nations that they established. They decided to impose mandates on large swaths of what had previously been the Ottoman Empire and German colonies in Africa. We, in turn, greeted these mandates with insurgencies and emphasized our refusal of the “fragmentation status quo” and our determination to “revive the order” as that had supposedly once b ....