Afrasianet - There has been a saying in the past ten years that the United States' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to the disadvantage of the United States, and Iran, the U.S. adversary in the region, has even benefited from these results. This, if anything, confirms that sins in grand policies serve enemies and adversaries, although this is contrary to what is meant when such policies are made.
This is the case for some Arabs and Muslims now, serving their number one enemy in the region, Israel, through their policies and practices that serve Israeli goals and agendas.
Developments in the region are of the nature of Israeli interests and benefits only, while "others" are affected by the security and political risks to their societies, homelands and common interests. Sectarian and sectarian divisions are increasing in the region and in the countries of the Islamic world, and the voices of hostility between the "Islamic East" and the "Christian West" are also intensifying.
On the Arab and Muslim arenas, we now find heavily active "Israeli women". We find Arabs and Muslims, "including Arab Islamic organizations", who are fighting "Israeli battles" under the banners of democracy, religion or sect, and they practically achieve what falls within the category of "Israeli projects" for the region, from seeking sectarian, sectarian and ethnic division that destroys the unity of national entities and erects blood barriers between the sons of the same nation in favor of groups that benefit from the crumbs of homelands and establish islands of their own factional kingdoms, even on a sea of Blood. Isn't it an Israeli project since the middle of the last century to fragment the Arab region into rival states? Is it not a full Israeli interest as a result of the dismantling of its national unity in Iraq and in the Sudan in terms of the division of its single national entity? Aren't they also Israeli interests as a result of what happened in the Lebanese civil war and what is happening now in Syria? What about those who establish "Islamic states and emirates" here and there, and the chaos that is now taking place in Libya, Yemen and Tunisia? And about the American and Western support for religious political movements in order to reach power in more than one Arab country, and then about the involvement of these movements in acts of violence and internal terrorism such as what is happening now in Egypt!? What about the phenomenon of armed violence in the name of the Islamic religion, which has abolished all religious and humanitarian taboos in its ideas and practices in the east and west of the earth!?.
Thus, projects to internationalize internal Arab crises are now mixed on Arab soil with the dangers of dividing Arab societies, amid intense conflicts between international and regional powers over the future, location and wealth of this region, with the continuation of the bleeding Palestinian wound in the heart of this nation, where the Zionist project that has been operating for a hundred years is a corridor and stable.
After the October War of 1973, and after the signing of the Egyptian/Israeli treaty, it was said that "there is no war without Egypt and no peace without Syria." Four decades later, his conclusion has been proven correct, as there has been no regular Arab/Israeli war since that time, in the sense of a war of conventional armies on the fronts, despite the occurrence of many wars carried out by Israel during these decades against the resistance movements in Lebanon and Palestine. Also, there has been no comprehensive settlement of the Arab/Israeli conflict nor "Peace" treaties on the Syrian and Lebanese fronts, such as those concluded between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Serious negative repercussions have occurred in the Arab region and its regional neighborhood in the past decades since the beginning of the era of "peace treaties" and Egypt's exit from the Arab/Israeli conflict, including either due to local wills and conditions, or due to external planning and aggression, or a combination of both. From the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the occupation of Beirut in 1982, to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in the summer of 1990, to the Second Gulf War in 1991, to the Madrid Conference and the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993, to the September attacks in the United States in 2001, to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.To the Israeli wars on Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories at more than one point in time during the past decade, to the conflicts and security and political crises that the region is witnessing that portend civil wars and changes in the entities and borders of some States, not just their ruling regimes.
These negative repercussions in contemporary Arab history have never been separate from the course of the nearly hundred-year Arab/Zionist conflict, nor are they mere internal interactions, of which "outside" is innocent. This is the case in the interconnected region despite the different places and times, and so is the reality now, despite the tyranny of internal conflicts or the Netanyahu government's attempt to make the conflict with Iran an Arab, regional and international "priority".
Isn't serving Israeli interests the outcome of the reality now prevailing in the region's crises and internal civil wars?!
Isn't the root of the problem at the Palestinian level the Arab/Israeli conflict out of its overall Arab circle and now making it an issue of a "Palestinian/Israeli track" that is stalled "negotiated" and needs to be "revitalized"?!
Moreover, when was Jerusalem a matter reserved only for the Palestinian negotiating team, while it is a holy city concerned with it and its future, in light of the attempts to Judaize it for more than forty years, all Muslims and Christians in the world?!
Isn't arming some extremist religious groups and supporting them financially and in the media a great Israeli benefit, as Israel now requires the Palestinians to recognize it as a "Jewish" state, and this inevitably requires the existence of other states in the region on religious and sectarian grounds?!.
Isn't marginalizing the conflict with Israel and preventing armed resistance against it an Israeli interest while issuing fatwas to incite fighting and to use violence in internal Arab conflicts?!.
Moreover, how sad is this international scene in which Israel is meeting with Arab and Islamic parties against political settlement projects for the bloody war in Syria and on the issue of the Iranian nuclear file, while these parties have encouraged the Palestinians to stop all forms of armed resistance against the Israeli occupation and to adopt negotiations as the only way to obtain their rights usurped six decades ago?!.
How unfortunate and humiliating it is also to see the "Israeli lobby" moving in Washington with all members of Congress to prevent an international agreement with Iran on its nuclear file, just as this "lobby" did in the past to incite US military strikes against Syria, while some governments of Arab and Islamic countries are preoccupied with themselves or others support the activity of the "Israeli lobby"!
There will come a day when it will be said about the Arab/Zionist conflict, which has been going on since the beginning of the twentieth century, that the Arabs were in two parts: one part resisting the Zionist project, and another part that served it, intentionally or unintentionally, and that the Arabs had no third choice other than them. Therefore, the important question for all Arabs now is: Where is the position of any person, group or government in these two sections?.
All of the above does not mean that the support of some Muslims stops at the borders of Palestine, but it applies to what is happening in Ukraine, and perhaps the American action is the same in our two cases, and this is what is exploited by America and Ukraine to push these Muslims to stand by Ukraine against Russia, and some of them do so.
In 2022, with the start of the Russian military operation , the Grand Mufti of Ukraine, Said Ismailov, called on the Islamic world to support his country and its Muslims by all means.
Ismailov, the mufti of the religious administration of Ukrainian Muslims, called the Russian attack on Ukraine "treacherous."What is happening now is that the Ukrainian and Western media are refocusing on this talk with a clear and unambiguous goal, which is an inflammatory goal against Russia.