Afrasianet - Subhi Ghandour - The impact of the United States has been evident in the Arab world since the beginning of the twentieth century, after the revolution of the automobile industry and aircraft and after the discovery of the need for oil of the Arabian Peninsula, after the First World War contributed by America, and then through the American extension to the areas of British and French influence after the World War the second. The American influence in the region began practically after the Cold War began between Moscow and Washington. The two camps competed for inheriting the European influence that was weakened by the Second World War, especially after the 1956 Suez War and Egypt's victory over the triple aggression: the British / French / Israeli , Which was stopped by US President Eisenhower.
The establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and accelerated by Washington and Moscow to recognize it, is the prominent station in the history of Washington's entry into the stages of the Arab / Zionist conflict. The 1967 war was the climax of the American escalation in direct intervention in favor of Israel against the Arabs. Washington contributed to supporting the Israeli aggression after America failed in the pre-1967 war in its political and economic pressure on Egypt.
In 1978, the "Camp David Treaties" between Egypt and Israel took place as a result of Henry Kissinger's efforts to establish a step-by-step policy that reduced Egypt's role step by step despite the great results of the 1973 war. In addition, Jordan and the PLO joined in signing bilateral treaties with Israel before ending its occupation of all the territories. Or the restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people.
Despite the major crime committed by the Bush administration in 2003 and the destruction of the country's components, it did not depart from the American policy adopted since the 1967 war on the Palestinian issue, especially in terms of the refusal to settle in the occupied territories. Restrictions on US support for international organizations sponsoring Palestinian refugees.
Now, unfortunately, the Arab / Zionist conflict is no longer the issue of the first Arabs, nor their common national concern. The entire Palestinian cause has been marginalized by the Arabs and the international community. No one is pressing Israel now to achieve the international demand for an independent Palestinian state, Jerusalem and its capital Jerusalem, and of course by removing the settlements or even stopping the settlements, and not a just solution to the refugee issue. These are the issues that have been negotiated between the Palestinians and the Israelis under US auspices since the signing of the Oslo Agreement in 199
But what is worse about American policy in the course of the Arab / Zionist conflict is that Israel found in the White House its champion, the best in comparison with all the American presidents who preceded Donald Trump in the United States, not only international decisions and references Also American policies for more than fifty years. Frattamb recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and transferred the US Embassy to it, imposing sanctions on the Palestinian Authority and international humanitarian institutions that care for Palestinian refugees, and recently extending "American legitimacy" to the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights. Trump is in full compliance with Netanyahu's policies at various levels, including the continuing stalemate against Iran, which threatens serious developments in the region.
Israel has been working for years, especially since the arrival of Netanyahu to govern in 2009, to be the priority of conflicts in the region is with its opponents not with it, so that several Israeli goals are very important for all the strategy and interests of Zionism in the region and the world. The Israeli conspiracy is to marginalize the Palestinian issue, to gain time for further settlement in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, and to ignite internal Arab conflicts with different names and pretexts that lead to the fragmentation of the current Arab entities and the destruction of the major Arab armies and the establishment of political, security and economic normalization with Arab countries And Islamic. Such a strategy would make Israel a major regional and international power in an era of multipolarity, in which Israel would then be able to impose a "new Middle East" that would allow it to achieve security, political and economic hegemony over the whole region after regional and civil wars end.
The internal Arab strife currently underway in more than one place can not be isolated from the Arab / Zionist conflict over a hundred years. It was not possible a century ago to implement the "Balfour Declaration" the establishment of the State of Israel without cutting the Arab body and the Arab land, where the promise of British / Zionist agreement with the British / French known as "Sykes-Picot," which created rival Arab entities on the border, To the Western interests, and a facilitator of the great Nakba in Palestine. There is no separation between the battles of national liberation from the Western colonization that took place in the Arab countries and the Arab / Zionist conflict. There is also no separation between any pursuit of Arab union or integration, and the effects on the Arab / Zionist conflict.
What has happened on Arab land in the last few years is the culmination of the wars waged by the Zionist movement over the last 100 years. The international recognition of Israel, followed by the Egyptian / Jordanian / Palestinian recognition of it after the Camp David, Oslo and Wadi Araba agreements, were insufficient to establish the legitimacy of the Israeli presence in Palestine and the desired Judaization of Jerusalem and most of the West Bank. This "legitimacy" requires the establishment of other states in the vicinity of "Israel" on religious grounds as well, as is now the saying "Israel is a state of the Jews." The more sectarian, sectarian and ethnic conflicts on Arab land, the greater the Zionist dream is to verify that Israel is the strongest religious state in an area of sectarian states.
Israel's security is achieved (as one Israeli minister said after the 1967 war) "when the Arabs hate the Arabs more than they hate the Israelis." The emergence of new states in the Middle East will lead them to struggle with each other, to mobilize abroad to support one state on another, and to form alliances with Israel itself, as happened during the Lebanese civil war, as did some opposition forces in southern Syria.
When these states are created, they will need a demographic increase in the number of followers of this sect or denomination, which will certainly facilitate the project of settling the Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and some of the Gulf states. This is a "solution" to the "Palestinian refugees" issue, which Israel too is betting on.
In the era of "Arab bloody conflicts" now under way in the region, Israel continues to build settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank and will increase the pressure on the 1948 Palestinians to displace as many as possible the "states" they need. Jordan "the alternative Palestinian homeland", especially after Netanyahu's pledges to annex West Bank settlement areas to Israel, and after US Ambassador David Friedman's remarks at the AIPAC conference on "Judea and Samaria" !.
Israel encouraged the separatist movements in the region, such as those in southern Sudan and in northern Iraq. Israel established the "Free State of Lebanon" on its border with Lebanon in the spring of 1979 as an entrance to the sectarian division projects that it had prepared since the 1950s. Of the last century.
What is now a questionable ignorance when the Israeli role is excluded in internal interactions occurring in several Arab countries, when the Arabs do not pay attention to the great Israeli interest in the fragmentation of their homeland and in their violent conflicts under any slogan.