10 Ocean. This has occurred despite the status we had achieved in days of yore of being once nation, having a unified identity, and existing as one entity for many centuries. There does not seem to be any objective basis today in our Arab world for such political division; indeed , the same applies to all aspects of division that we presently witness as regards our different peoples, countries, cultures and/or interests. One thing we have learned from history is that dividing Arab nation has always been a process of hacking one body into many pieces, with a resulting divergence of interests. We see this clearly revealed in the arena of the Arab world. From here, brothers, On the banks of the Gulf, we keenly scrutinize what is taking place in the broader Arab homeland because we believe that we share the same destiny; by so doing, we confirm our identity as Arabs, and actualize our nationalism. What has been happening in Lebanon, for example, is but a manifestation of the kind of tear that is ripping as under the fabric that binds Arab society, and, likewise, a manifestation of a schism that has been wrought upon us, the Arab people. The ongoing disputes and differences of opinion between Arab brothers about the central issue is another illustration of the discord imposed on us, Arabs by foreign agencies in order that we remain divided and incapable of rising again as one united, Arab nation.
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