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🗓️ 16 November 2023
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0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's do a breakdown of the Arab summit, this emergency summit that |
0:09.2 | took place in Saudi Arabia, which saw meetings between Saudi Arabia, MBS, Assad, Egypt, Iran, Raisi, a very, a lot of countries at this summit. |
0:28.0 | Obviously, the topic was the bombing of Gaza and the war that is unfolding in not only Israel, but I mean, we're seeing it, we're seeing the dangers of it expanding |
0:41.1 | to engulf the entire Middle East. |
0:45.0 | So let's break down what happened at this summit, because there are some analysts who are saying this summit was a summit which |
0:59.0 | showed unity amongst the Arab and the Muslim world, but there are other analysts who say that |
1:04.9 | this summit fell way short of providing the necessary help and moving closer to a ceasefire, which is what is needed right now in Gaza. |
1:15.8 | What are your thoughts on this summit? |
1:20.5 | I think what it shows is the increasing political sophistication of the countries in the Middle East. |
1:30.1 | That's not always been there up to now. |
1:32.1 | I mean, you know, in the past, you've had some very, you know, unstable people, to put it mildly, |
1:39.9 | running Middle Eastern countries and saying things which weren't really thought out well |
1:44.9 | and getting themselves into all kinds of difficult situations. This summit, which was enormous |
1:51.0 | and which wasn't confined just to the Arab states, it brought together many, many Muslim countries |
1:58.8 | from around the world. Well, first of all, they brought together everybody. |
2:02.6 | I mean, as you rightly said, MBS convened it. |
2:06.6 | He chaired it. He did the opening speech. |
2:09.6 | He was there. |
2:11.6 | So was Erdogan from Turkey. |
2:13.6 | So was Raizi from Iran. |
2:15.6 | So was Assad from Syria. So was Al-Sisi from Egypt, so was the king of |
2:23.3 | Jordan and the Emir of Qatar, of course, the country with which historically Saudi Arabia has |
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