Where are the Arab billions? http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/middle-east/2340-where-are-the-arab-billions

"Arab oil is not more important than Arab blood." These are the memorable words of the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, uttered soon after the outbreak of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war in an effort to push the West, especially the United States, to put pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Arab land.Faisal belonged to a generation of Arab leaders who knew the centrality of the Palestinian question to the survival and future of the Arab people. He also understood the ramifications and risks of challenging the American empire whose policies were influenced and controlled tightly by the Zionists then as, indeed, they are now.

King Faisal paid with his life for daring to say "no" to the evil empire which masquerades as a force for democracy, freedom and justice while pursuing an agenda based on imperialism and neo-colonialism.In 1975, he was assassinated by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid, for unknown reasons, although it is widely believed that the latter was a pawn in an American conspiracy to assassinate the king who had adopted an uncompromising stance vis-à-vis Israel.

Today, more than ever before, the oil-rich Arab countries need the late king's shrewdness, wisdom and courage. He used to pray for martyrdom in Jerusalem; in many respects, he was a martyr for Jerusalem.I know that this article may upset many so-called "khaleejis" who would argue vociferously but ignorantly that the wealth of the Khaleej (Arabian/Persian Gulf) belongs solely to them, and that non-Khaleej Arabs and Muslims have no rights over it.That's very true if we adopt the parochial ideology of territorial nationalism as our way of life and substitute it for the Islamic concept which treats all Muslims as one Ummah (nation; people), 

not dozens of tribal states, each with its own national strategy and agenda. Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) said, "In their mutual love and compassion, Muslims are like a single body, so that whenever a part of that body suffers, the whole body will share the suffering and agony."Today, the Gulf states, emirates and sheikdoms sell approximately $2 billion dollars' worth of crude oil every single day. This amount alone would free the Palestinians from financial enslavement under the Israel lobby-controlled US Congress, which is telling us that we must abandon the reconciliation agreement and resume civil war between Fatah and Hamas or America won't give us financial aid.