Next time Malawi is to vote on the UN on the difficulty of Palestine and Israel, I hope our representatives will take into account broader nationwide pursuits aside from their slim non secular inclinations.

Today, the Arab international locations have flexed their useful resource muscle on Malawi: one careless choice supporting continuation of the genocide in opposition to Palestine, countless gasoline queues. Now the federal government has obtained to purchase oil from/via Kenya as we watch for the Arabs to forgive us and grant us a government-to-government deal.

Religious fundamentalism shouldn’t be a foundation for making choices of nationwide pursuits in a secular state. Some of those issues might be averted by merely wanting on the world from a extra liberated secular place.

I additionally want to suppose that our relationship with the Arab world, significantly with respect to negotiating for higher commerce benefits, will not be helped by sure diplomatic appointments. Imagine, as important as Qatar is in commerce typically and petroleum specifically, we appointed a faithful Christian as an envoy there, knowingly it’s a nation that just about fully suits into the outline ‘Muslim country’. For me, that’s a diplomatic center finger. And it’s failure in primary decision-making.

Rich international locations don’t prefer to be taken as a right. Besides, diplomacy is all about pretence of shared values and customary id, culturally or in any other case. We ought to have appointed a whole Muslim, fluent in Arabic and English, as an envoy to Qatar and such different international locations. And I don’t thoughts anybody calling such an individual a sheikh.

In case you’re failing to know the thrust of my argument right here, simply ask your self what number of individuals of their greatest proper frame of mind would appoint a Muslim as ambassador to the Vatican and anticipate that to take a seat nicely with the Vatican state.

In quick, whereas we proceed to serve our slavery to the West, we must always have tried the least to stability our appeasement of the West with sure important and instant wants of the nation that the West can not present and that we are able to get solely from the Arab world, however which may paralyse the economic system and doubtlessly convey down the federal government if not well-taken care of. Fuel is one such useful resource. The endless gasoline queues are inclined to current us as clueless authorities on important issues, but I’m certain this could possibly be averted if we solely performed our playing cards nicely on the UN poll field coupled with strategic diplomatic appointments to international locations that matter.

For the file, earlier governments in Malawi have ever voted in opposition to Israel’s apartheid pursuits on the UN and nonetheless managed to get together with the shark and the sardines, therefore I don’t suppose there could be any irreparable injury to Malawi if we obtained a bit level-headed when casting our vote on the difficulty of Palestine and Israel final 12 months.

But right here we’re right now. Struggling to clinch a government-to-government oil cope with the governments of the individuals whose brothers and sisters we voted that they need to proceed being wiped from the face of the earth. You can not move a judgement that my relations needs to be shot at anyhow by an occupier of their land right now and anticipate to return to my home tomorrow to beg for water. I’ll, certainly, offer you pure poison.

Sad as it’s for unusual Malawians bearing the blunt, I’d not blame the Arabs for demonstrating their relevance and cracking their whip on a diplomatically careless nation in order that, sooner or later, they don’t seem to be ignored.

I hope we’ve realized our classes and can do higher subsequent time, for even the poorest nation on the earth should refuse to be bullied some occasions.