Peace in Palestine is a precondition for stability in the Middle East

Peace in Palestine, Stability in the Middle East, Threats to Israeli Security, Arab-Israeli Relations

How did the victory of the Islamic Revolution affect the security of Israel?

What are the roots of conflicts and wars in the Middle East?

What solutions have been proposed so far to achieve peace in the Middle East?

What are the goals of the Israelis in establishing relations with the Arab countries?

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has its roots in at least a century ago, is one of the most complex international crises that has plagued the sensitive Middle East region for decades. Many efforts have been made by various individuals, institutions and countries to achieve a comprehensive peace between the sides to the conflict, which has not yet resulted in a final result.

Threatening Israel's security with the victory of the Islamic Revolution

With the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a new wave of Islamic revival swept across the Islamic world. This wave had more decisive power, especially in the land of Palestine. In a short time, it shook the political situation and the pillars of the Zionist regime. In such a situation, the supporters and allies of the Zionist regime in the West and some of their compromising leaders in the region, rushed to the aid of the regime and by presenting Middle East peace plans, made every effort to stabilize the regime and ensure its security in the sensitive and strategic Middle East. However, today, after nearly three decades of efforts, the goal of achieving lasting peace in the region is far from the past.

The roots of conflicts in the Middle East

Studies clearly show that the conflicts and wars in the Middle East are rooted in the racist, expansionist and domineering temperament of the Zionist regime of Israel, which itself is derived from the distorted teachings and commandments of the Torah, the Talmud and the protocols of the Zionist leaders. It isn't a real peace. Rather, it is merely a ploy to continue its imposed life in the region in order to implement the policy of occupation and extinction of the Muslim Arab generation. Therefore, despite the fake Israeli regime, achieving lasting peace in the region is an imaginary idea.

The difficult path to peace in the Middle East

The last Israeli-Palestinian peace talks came to a standstill in 2014, while obstacles such as the development of Israeli settlements, the rise of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and long-term mistrust have doubled the difficulty of negotiations. What few are talking about is the international solution to having two states in the land, an official Palestinian state in the neighborhood of the state of Israel. The UN and the majority of countries in the world have supported this plan and have always considered it the basis of any future peace plan. But the Trump government suddenly backed away from decades of US policy, with Mike Pompeo declaring that his country did not consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank "incompatible with international law." While the Palestinians and the majority of the international community consider these settlements illegal, Israel claims that it has deep ties to these territories for historical, religious and political reasons, and that its security depends on their preservation.

The root of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Although the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict culminated with the establishment of the state of Israel, the roots of this conflict go back to the events before the establishment of Israel. That is, at a time when Arab leaders in Palestine were trying to prevent the creation of a Jewish national homeland in that land. In fact, the conflict began when the locals didn't yet recognize the land as Palestine and considered it part of the Ottoman Empire. In other words, the roots of the contemporary Arab-Israeli conflict lie in the rise of Zionism and Arab nationalism in the late 19th century and their conflicting claims to territory. Which is considered on the one hand as the historical homeland of the Jewish people and on the other hand as belonging to the Palestinian Arabs and part of the Islamic lands. This conflict intensified after the British tutelage, as the terms of the tutelage were essential to the recognition of a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine. In the 1930s and 1940s, with the rise of the Nazis under Hitler in Germany and the spread of their ideas and practices in many other countries, they reached critical proportions.

Peace of the devoted Arab countries with Israel

Arab governments' contacts with Israel have a long history in practice. In fact, the agreements signed and the official Arab-Israeli meetings date back to almost the time of the formation of the state of Israel, with the treaties ending the 1949 war. For about two decades thereafter, there were intermittent, albeit routine, low-level formal meetings on security, water, asylum, and other topics, along with many higher-level private meetings. The resumption of contacts after the 1973 war led to the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. In September 1993, one of the most historic moments in the negotiations with the Oslo Accords took place, during which the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized each other. The Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty was signed in 1994 to normalize relations and peace between the two countries. Later, despite some interruptions during the Second Intifada or other crises in the region, many Arab-Palestinian summits, meetings, agreements, and other high-level contacts occurred with Israel.

The US is blocking peace in the Middle East

Since the recognition of Israel in 1948, the US has stood by Israel as the most important ally and supporter at various levels, and has progressed to the point where the mutual interests of the two countries are reflected in the form of special relations. All US presidents, whether Democrats or Republicans, have accepted full commitment to Israel's security and superiority in terms of conventional weapons over its neighbors, despite the ups and downs in US-Israeli relations. The US Congress attaches great importance to maintaining and expanding these relations. The most important feature of this support is the amount of foreign aid provided to Israel, which is fully overseen by Congress and has influenced the policies of various US governments since the founding of Israel.

Efforts to bring peace to the Middle East

Despite the long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many efforts have been made since the 1970s to bring peace to the region. The Arab-Israeli peace process began with the Camp David Accords. Egypt was the first country to establish relations with Israel four decades ago, and as the first front-line state to normalize relations with Israel, it showed that the Pan-Arab approach to the Palestinian issue had collapsed as a result of the Camp David Accords. Jordan joined Egypt in 1994 with the Wadi Araba peace treaty. After these two countries, Israel's relations with some Arab and some non-Arab Islamic countries secretly existed or still exist in the form of trade offices and liaison offices. In fact, while the Arab states have been entrenched for the past four decades behind the slogan of the Arab League and the Islamic Conference in defense of the Palestinian cause, they themselves have pursued bilateral approaches to relations with Israel in pursuit of national interests.

Israelis seek to establish relations with Arab countries

 The agreements reached in the last months of the Trump government between Israel and the Arab countries, which were made in order to normalize the relations between these countries and mediated by the US government, are among the important achievements of the Trump government in the field of foreign policy. Steps that even Trump's opponents, including new US President Joe Biden, have openly praised. Trump government Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attributes the achievement to a campaign of maximum pressure on sanctions against the Iranian government, and Israeli politicians hope to form a united bloc to influence Washington's foreign policy after peace with several Arab countries.

Joe Biden's protectionist policy towards Israel

Joe Biden has been a veteran center-right politician and a traditional supporter of Israel. His government therefore does not appear to allow a section of the Democratic Party, which is openly opposed to Israel and a critic of the Abraham Accords, to dictate US policy toward Israel and the region. In his first telephone call with Netanyahu, Biden stressed the United States' unwavering commitment to the security of its ally, Israel, and supported the normalization agreements between the Arab governments and Israel.

Overall, although the Abraham Accords and its expansion to other Arab countries could reduce regional tensions and improve Israel's security, history has shown that such agreements can't help resolve the Palestine issue. The prospect of peace in the Middle East can't be hoped for as long as the main sides to the conflict, Israel and Palestine, insist on their "all or nothing" position