Editorial By Advocatetanmoy
OIC’s Hollow Resolution: Arab and Muslim States Fail to Act as Israel Escalates War on Gaza
The ink of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s “extraordinary resolution” dated 25th August, 2025, is still wet, yet its relevance has already evaporated into irrelevance. The grandiloquent preamble, crammed with ritual denunciations of Israeli crimes and lachrymose oaths of solidarity, reeks of bureaucratic necromancy: words stitched together to impersonate action, even as Gaza burns under U.S.– and India-backed Israeli bombardments.
The Arab-Muslim bloc, bloated with petro-dollars and parading its hollow pieties, has once again performed its most reliable trick — mistaking florid communiqués for power. Israel brazenly struck Hamas negotiators in the heart of Doha and issued a threat to Qatar on 11th September 2025, humiliating the Gulf monarchies under whose gilded roofs the “dialogues” were staged. The OIC’s response? An incantation of recycled resolutions, a choral recitation of grievances, and the ceremonial passing of paper in Jeddah.
This resolution, OIC/EXCFM-21/2025/RES/Final, dares to denounce genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler terrorism, and famine, yet stops short of the only tools that matter: sanctions, embargoes, or meaningful rupture of ties with Tel Aviv and its patrons. Instead, the member states content themselves with the sterile theatre of “calling on” the United Nations — a body structurally neutered by Washington’s veto pen.
One would think that sixty-two thousand Palestinian dead, including nearly twenty thousand children, might stir something fiercer than diplomatic sighs. But the Muslim governments prefer choreography to confrontation, their thrones trembling at the prospect of displeasing Washington, their economies shackled to Western markets, their militaries addicted to American hardware.
The OIC, in essence, has perfected the art of doing nothing in magnificent prose. Its “extraordinary” session is extraordinary only for its impotence. While Tel Aviv redraws maps with bombs and bulldozers, the Arab and Islamic world retreats into its air-conditioned halls, issuing resolutions destined for the oblivion of filing cabinets.
The truth is brutal: the OIC has become a sepulchre of Muslim political will, an elaborate diplomatic mausoleum where Palestine is ritually mourned but never defended. Its resolutions, no matter how searing in rhetoric, carry less weight than the smoke rising from Gaza’s ruins.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
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