A Summit For Democracy: Op-ed

On December 9-10, 2021, The US will host a virtual summit for leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector. The summit will focus on challenges and opportunities facing democracies and will provide a platform for leaders to announce both inpidual and collective commitments, reforms, and initiatives to defend democracy and human rights at home and abroad.

Is it logical or acceptable that Egypt the most effective country in the Middle East has not been invited to the Summit for Democracy? Egypt is the Keystone in its region and always opens her arms to help in spreading the Democracy everywhere and to be not invited to this summit for Democracy is very Controversial.

When it comes to regional representation, Europe leads the world with thirty-nine invitees, followed closely by twenty-seven participating countries from the Western Hemisphere. The Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa also enjoy robust participation with twenty-one and seventeen invitees, respectively (see figure 2). In contrast, the Biden administration extended invites to fewer countries in the Middle East and North Africa and South and Central Asia. In the Middle East, only Iraq and Israel received invitations, while South and Central Asia obtained just four invites (for India, the Malpes, Nepal, and Pakistan).

This summit is born to be dead because it’s a selective summit, from all the entire Middle East only two countries are invited, Iraq and Israel as they walk on the US waters and because almost half of Muslims in the US say they have experienced discrimination in the past year, a study by the Pew Research Center suggests. UN Security Council members failed to agree on a unified position on the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel during an emergency session Sunday.

This is the third time that the US blocked the statement. The countries, which supported the statement, include some US allies.

Israel is a US satellite that is used to suppress The Muslims of the Middle East. Unjustified action in The Middle East by the US. The US is a highly selfish superpower. When it has to choose between international morality and political self-interest, it just brazenly chooses the latter and forces the international community to get used to its shamelessness. The US often supports Israel regardless of the consensus of the other UN Security Council member states, which is astonishing to many other big powers.

The US focus has completely shifted to major power competition. Obviously, Washington does not like Muslims. Nor does it like China. Nonetheless, it has shown particular interest in the Muslims in China's Xinjiang region. US values have become distorted. Its bellicosity in major power competition dominates its attention and agenda setting.

In order to focus on China and Russia, Washington is eager to retreat from the Middle East and does not want to invest in new energy and resources for the sake of Palestine-Israel peace. But it wants the situation in the Middle East to remain favorable to the strategic interests of Israel and the US so it can retreat without pain, and lets the Palestinians suffer from the unfinished political chaos in the Middle East and lets time heal injustice. But Washington must be made to know that justice cannot be buried alive.

The United States was rated a "flawed democracy" by the Economist Intelligence Unit, reflecting a year of political pision and mistrust. American democracy has trended downward since the EIU, part of The Economist publishing group, started its global index in 2006. In the latest report, covering 2020, the United States received its lowest score yet (7.92 out of 10), ranking 25th out of 167 countries analyzed.

The oppression in The Middle East under the US umbrella makes the soon held Democracy Summits in The US and Denmark is like a joke, “No democracy is perfect, and no democracy is ever final. Every gain made, every barrier broken, is the result of determined, unceasing work.” A motto that had never been carried out on earth.

The world already has several good international declarations of human rights, so another one would not add much. The Summit for Democracy needs to be more operative, with a focus on international institution building. Many international organizations exist, but two are obviously missing — an international organization for democracy building and an international organization for the building of the rule of law. The Summit for Democracy should aim at establishing these two organizations by starting a process of creating their charter.

Today, no international organization can really provide credible advice on how to build a democracy or the rule of law. All too often, honest reformers come to power for a brief period, but they receive little relevant advice from the international community on democracy or the rule of law, so they fail.

America Needs a Democracy Summit More Than Ever, A stunned world watched in horror on January 6 as hundreds of far-right extremists, incited by President Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol. The rampage ultimately failed to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory, but it has complicated the president-elect’s commitments to return the United States to the role of champion of democracy worldwide. In particular, it raises hard questions about Biden’s widely publicized plan to host a “Summit for Democracy” during his first year in office.