Afrasianet - Dr. Hani Al-Akkad - It is not Iran that threatens the region and wants to destroy its countries with nuclear weapons, as Netanyahu claimed, and as he repeated in many of his speeches at the United Nations General Assembly and even during his meetings with world leaders, including of course Biden and Trump, but Israel, which wants to change the geopolitical map in the region by force.  During his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2023, Netanyahu said that "the common threat posed by Iran has brought Israel and many Arab countries closer than ever in a friendship that I have never seen in my life."

Israel and the Arab states share many common interests, and he believes that these many common interests can facilitate his breakthrough in the path to a broader peace in the region. At the time, Netanyahu was promoting that making peace with many Arab countries could increase the prospects of making peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and he even considered that the Palestinians represent only 2% of the Arab world, and claimed that the Palestinians believed that the remaining 98% of Arabs would remain in a state of quasi-war with Israel and believed that this larger bloc could remove and eventually destroy Israel!,  He expressed his belief that when the Palestinians see that most of the Arab world has reconciled to the Jewish state, they are likely to abandon the destruction of Israel and finally adopt a path of real peace with it...!!

As for the recent peace agreements with the Arab world, Netanyahu claimed to have achieved four peace treaties with the United States in four months, saying, "I have achieved four peace agreements with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco in four months," adding that these Abraham Accords were a watershed moment in history. 

Today, after the war of extermination in Gaza and the erasure of many cities and camps in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, we ask Netanyahu a fundamental question: Where is Israel from these agreements that you were paying lip service to in the United Nations General Assembly after targeting the State of Qatar, attacking its sovereignty, and threatening Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan? 

I don't think that these agreements have become the subject of anyone's conversation, even in Israel, so much so that many Israeli intellectuals, intellectuals and strategic experts are afraid that all Arab countries will one day disintegrate from the Abraham Accords and even the Camp David Accords with Egypt and the Wadi Araba Accords with Jordan because of Netanyahu's recklessness and madness, which will be the cause of Israel losing its position in the world and the region. At the same time, all the efforts of the previous Biden and Trump administrations, current and predecessor, over the course of a decade to try to form an Arab defense alliance of which Israel is a part, are being torpedoed.

All this brings us to the major strategic event in the region, which is the new and important joint strategic defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which was signed by the Saudi Crown Prince (Prince Mohammed bin Salman) and the Pakistani Prime Minister (Shehbaz Sharif) on September 17 in Riyadh and about 72 hours after the end of the Arab and Islamic summit in Doha, in a remarkable and important development in the Arab region.

I think it came in response to Netanyahu's threat to Arab capitals and Netanyahu and his ministers' aggression against the Arabs that they are nothing more than noisy people who do nothing, and the extreme right ministers in Israel attacked Saudi Arabia in particular when they said that "the Palestinians who come to Saudi Arabia should establish a state for them on its land."

This agreement is the first of its kind between Saudi Arabia and a nuclear country in the Islamic world, a country with a large military presence in the world, especially after it was able to deter India, an ally of the United States and Israel, in the last confrontation in April of this year.

The joint statement issued in Riyadh stated that "the agreement comes within the framework of the two countries' efforts to enhance their security and achieve security and peace in the region and the world, and aims to develop aspects of defense cooperation between the two countries and enhance joint deterrence against any aggression", in my opinion, this agreement is considered a five-point blow to the face of Trump, whose interests and position in the Arab region have become a demon after overlooking what Israel did in Doha, after overly siding with Israel and strengthening its thorn in the region, and after six vetoes.

In the Security Council against the ceasefire projects in Gaza, and this agreement carries a warning message to Israel, which has gone too far in its might and violation of international humanitarian law by killing tens of thousands of Palestinians without anyone stopping it, and the important message is that if Israel is thinking of striking Saudi Arabia militarily, it will receive strikes and the confrontation will be wider and bigger than it thinks, although Saudi officials confirmed that the agreement came as a result of the long historical cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and not As a result of current events in the region.

The agreement includes all aspects of strategic military, information and intelligence cooperation, and includes joint exercises and maneuvers, and the agreement may also include the deployment of advanced defense systems in Saudi Arabia and the establishment of a civilian nuclear reactor with the support and expertise of Pakistan on Saudi soil to be used for civilian purposes, and this is what the United States of America was bartering for Saudi Arabia's normalization with Israel, which Israel rejected, in addition to expanding the Pakistani military base in Saudi Arabia and sending more Pakistani soldiers with their military equipment Advanced.

The joint strategic defense agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan strengthens the historic partnership between the two countries and opens extensions for new decades of joint work, and perhaps this agreement comes as its importance comes that Saudi Arabia, as the largest Islamic country in the region, will adopt the purchase of arms and equipment deals from Pakistan and China, which means that the agreement said goodbye to the reliance on American and Western weapons, and this may lead in the future to the end of the agreements between Saudi Arabia and the United States, especially in the military and economic fields, and may end one day because these agreements have no value.

Perhaps the importance of this agreement is that it opens the door to a broader Islamic alliance with the joining of new countries from the Arab Gulf to this alliance to become an Islamic power with prestige in the face of Israeli and American arrogance, which means that it may not depend on the establishment of an Arab NATO but an Arab-Islamic NATO led by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and this means that the Arab region will happen.

The most important thing here is that Saudi Arabia has drawn a map to get out of the circle of dependence on one strategic ally that drains it financially and economically to a number of allies, including China, Pakistan, North Korea and Turkey, which may enter the line of alliances in the region in the future.

Neither Washington nor Israel commented on this agreement and remained silent, but they understood the messages behind this agreement, and the Trump administration understood specifically that Israel, whose prime minister claimed that he would change the face of the Middle East, would remain a pariah and isolated state, not by the Arab world, which is facing a major shift in the relationship with Israel, even the countries that have diplomatic relations are reducing these relations to the lowest level, and I think that many of them have become ink on paper. 

Perhaps it has become impossible to reach any new normalization agreements with Israel and any of the Arab countries because Israel has not maintained the treaties it has concluded so that some Arab countries will accept to enter into new agreements in light of the fact that it will be difficult to preserve the previous agreements that were concluded within the framework of the Abraham Accords, which is also threatened by Israel's persistence in threatening the region and rushing to seize Arab lands in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem under the pretext of buffer zones, which are It is now trying by force to impose a large-scale displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip towards Jordan and Egypt to draw a new geopolitical map of the region, which the Arab world considers a red line that cannot be overlooked, and will be the cause of a military clash at least between Egypt and Israel if Israel tries to push the Palestinians to break Egypt's border with Gaza and head towards Sinai under fire. This is what many military experts in the Arab world have warned of, which means that the confrontation could widen as other Arab countries enter the potential front line.

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