You are absolutely right, but ignoring the real problem won't make it go away. Like a person with a boil, deciding to call it a pimple won't make it any less painful. Like a boil, the real problem will simply go on getting bigger and uglier and more painful until, something gives.
"Like a boil, the real problem will simply go on getting bigger and uglier and more painful until, something gives." Most of my childhood 'boils' only went away only after they were 'lanced'! Occasionally, enough 'heat' could draw one out, but usually they just got worse, and the infection spread.
Thankfully, through maturity, they finally went away. Doesn't look like that will happen in the Middle East though, as there are many who want to remain in the 16th century condition they're in.