Avrassiant - Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia and the aftermath of it were absent from the element of innocence, while opportunism was an essential feature of it.
When Obama came to Cairo, he was content with its symbolism and did not ask for anything. Trump, when he chose Saudi Arabia, was the same eye on the big arms deal and the Arab initiative that he wants to employ to promote normalization with Israel while at the same time benefiting from its symbolism in establishing Sunni Shiite Iran.
On Sunday (5/14), a coordination meeting was held prior to the upcoming visit of the American president, in which the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, Sameh Shukri, Ayman Safadi and the Executive Secretary of the PLO, Saeb Erekat, participated.
"There are real prospects for reviving the peace talks in accordance with the Arab peace initiative and moving forward towards a settlement that will overcome the obstruction that has hit the peace process," Arab media quoted the meeting as saying. The following headline was also published on the Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian coordination meeting: "The American president has created a positive momentum for the issue."
On the same Sunday, Ha'aretz published an article by Arab commentator Jackie Houki in which he ridiculed the stakes held by the Palestinian Authority and Arab officials over the role of President Trump In the settlement of the conflict and said he doubted that the US administration would be secure. He called Trump's "media noise about his commitment to resolve the conflict" as part of US national security requirements, particularly the need for a role for power in the war on terror.
He explicitly stated that the Trump administration's declaration of commitment to a political settlement of the conflict was in fact intended to "provide an environment that allows the Authority to integrate into the US-led regional coalition against terrorism, which together with Israel includes Egypt, Jordan and a number of Gulf states."
The Israeli writer explained his statement by saying that the first US official to visit Ramallah was the head of the American intelligence service, who came to discuss the role of the authority in the war on terror, and that the director of Palestinian intelligence went to Washington immediately after Trump was elected to agree on the role played by the authority in the said war .
We are reminded of the fact that the Trump administration, when the Palestinian Authority was stolen, did not express a real tendency to impose a political settlement with Israel, because the US administration can not be equal to the two parties because it considers Israel the most important strategic partner of the United States in the region, Adding that Trump did not develop a clear path to resolve the complex conflict, and that Palestinian leaders exaggerated the bet on US National Security Advisor Herbert McMaster, who announced that Trump will announce during his visit support for the Palestinians to self-determination.
We will not exaggerate if we say that Trump will sell us the "tram" during his auspicious visit, because the Arabs will not get out of it, but will be the biggest loser behind it. Israel is the biggest and only winner. As the Arabs will push for normalization with the Zionist entity, without any significant exchange, and may result in the resumption of negotiations between Abu Mazen and Netanyahu.
But the only concession that the latter makes is that he accepted by just sitting at the same table with the Palestinian president, without finding a single reason to submit anything to him. In this case, the Arabs and Muslims present will be false witnesses and only "compresses" appear behind the absurd scene.
On the other hand, the alliance to be built against Iran, in which Israel will participate under the pretext of fighting terrorism, will not only become another cover for normalization, but will also serve as a legalization and support for the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, which brings us into a sedition that occupies each other and consumes its resources and energies. He will distract him from Israeli brutality and arrogance, so that Netanyahu alone will become the police officer and patron of the region. If you ask me about Egypt in that obsession, individually it is out of the equation, because it is either absent or absent, and if true, do not ask me yet about the Arab world!