By: IBRAHIM Jaafar
Israel, the alien state in the middle east region, has in the past few years been sleeping in peace in a way that it has never dreamt of since it was founded more than seven decades ago. Meanwhile, the Arabs are being submerged in war and blood day after day. If we expand our awareness and attention to what is happening, we will find that the deeper the Arab states sink into war, the more unprecedented peace and happiness that Israel and its military occupation enjoy.
In 2015, Israel opened its first diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates, and there are extensive business ties between Israel and Gulf countries valued at billions of dollars.
Egypt and Jordan already have longstanding peace treaties with Israel. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached out to more of the Arab world as efforts for a deal with the Palestinians have foundered. According to Times of Israel Editor David Horvitz, Netanyahu “has wanted to believe that if Israel can deepen its relations more widely across the region, that may lead to the Palestinians being prodded in a more compromising direction by other Arab parties.” In other words, Netanyahu hopes his new Arab friends may be able to nudge the Palestinians back to negotiations," and of course, its working for him.
Over the past five years, Israel has launched a series of raids on Syria and carried out carefully planned military operations across the border, including the assassinations of Samir Qantar, Imad Mughniyeh, and others. It has also carried out military operations elsewhere, including the assassination of Engineer Mohamed Zouari in Tunisia and the assassination of Palestinian academic and researcher Fadi Al-Batsh in Malaysia. It may have even carried out more killings in other countries without anyone realizing, especially since Israel does not immediately admit to such operations. It only confessed a few years ago, for example, that it had killed the martyr Wadie Haddad in Iraq in 1978, over 30 years after the assassination which people thought was a natural death.
Israeli raids and operations in recent years are an important indicator of the peace and relative relaxation enjoyed by the state, at a time when the Arabs are preoccupied with their internal conflicts, which have cost them enormously in human and material terms. The richest Arab countries suffer from deficits in their budgets and suffocating economic crises, while the poorest Arab countries, such as Syria, Yemen and Libya, are standing in line waiting to die.
"The Arab states are motivated by the survival of their regimes, and that is what pushes them to peace with Israel in order to share some common goals". Nonetheless, the Arab world is paying the price of that peace with Israel, which is far greater than the price of conflict and war with the Zionist state. At least 72,000 Arab martyrs have been killed in the wars with Israel, which is far fewer than those lost in inter-Arab conflicts. Thus the deceptive peace is merely a door to hell for the Arab world.
The middle east region already knows that Israel is a known and open enemy to them, thus, Machiavellian theory should be considered here "that when people face an external danger, they come together and forget their internal disputes. They rally behind each other in order to face the external threat and defeat it", but the region is yet to learn from history, especially, the fall of the last Islamic empire.
To say that the Arabs are paying the price of peace with Israel or that Israel is enjoying peace at great cost to the Arabs amounts to one and the same thing. Israel is reaping the benefits of the Arabs being in perpetual conflict. Ultimately, it is the sole beneficiary. The fact that it is being allowed to get away with attacking targets in Syria and assassinating its enemies with apparent impunity is not the only benefit that the Israeli government has obtained from Arab conflicts. It is also sitting back and watching Arab leaders fall over themselves in the race to normalize relations with the Zionist state in our midst