Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Who are the 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation?
Qatar had been hosting truce negotiations between Israel and Hamas, and
was about to close a ceasefire deal for Gaza. But on September 9, Israel
attacked a Hamas office in Qatar’s capital, Doha, killing five Hamas
negotiation members and one Qatari personnel. In fact, in just three days
between September 8 and 10, Israel carried out strikes in six countries,
including Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, and Qatar. Now, leaders of
the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC,
gathered at an emergency summit in Doha this week. Founded in 1945 and
headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, the League of Arab States is an
intergovernmental organization of 22 Arab states in the Middle East and North
Africa. Its primary mission is to strengthen relations, coordinate policies,
and foster cooperation among its member states on security, economic, and
political issues. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, was founded in
1969 and is headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It is a political and
diplomatic forum for 57 Muslim countries, including Arab League nations and
populous countries like Indonesia, Pakistan, and Nigeria. The total population
of the OIC exceeds two billion people, representing over 25% of the world's
population. Many of the Arab League states are close allies of the USA, and
some are even hosting US military bases, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
the UAE, and Qatar. If US-backed Israel keeps attacking sites and people in these
states for the sake of self-defense, there may be a change in geopolitics in
the Middle East.
Read the article and learn about the Arab League and OIC.
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