Israel was always incredibly unpopular with Arabs. Saudi Arabia, the friendliest Arab nation to Israel, has 90% of its citizens not approving of Israel. The only real "friends" of Israel in the middle east were countries like Jordan and Saudi Arabia who have monarchies that don't have to care as much about the opinions of the masses, to an extent of course. Either public dissent against Israel has reached a turning point where these monarchs have to care, or they're starting to realize the Israel is becoming too emboldened and they won't just stop at Palestine and Lebanon. Or both.
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Probably both. If I were looking from the side and seeing Israel has a blank check and weapons from the US, casually bombing neighbouring capitals, I would consider mine could be next. The Arabs can probably also see the blatant racism displayed by parts of Israel's government, a part that's expected to grow.
Saudi Arabia, the friendliest Arab nation to Israel, has 90% of its citizens not approving of Israel.
The friendliest Arab nation to Israel is the Emirates, but yeah Saudis unsurprisingly aren't fans of Israel.
The only real "friends" of Israel in the middle east were countries like Jordan and Saudi Arabia who have monarchies that don't have to care as much about the opinions of the masses, to an extent of course.
And Egypt. Definitely Egypt. The people hate it of course, but pro-US administrations have continued for 45 years so... yeah.
Either public dissent against Israel has reached a turning point where these monarchs have to care, or they're starting to realize the Israel is becoming too emboldened and they won't just stop at Palestine and Lebanon. Or both.
I haven't heard anything about Jordan changing its policies, but in Saudi Arabia it's more that they were hoping to finish naturalization relatively quietly when October 7 happened and Israel was in the forefront of Arab consciousness. Naturalization had been off the table since then, because—to paraphrase how it would be talked about in the Arab world—they'd be "abandoning our Palestinian brothers while they're bravely fighting the Zionist enemy". Not a good look for their citizens or abroad. Prince Mohammed's position can be summarized by his position when Biden wanted him to approve of an Israeli-occupied Gaza or some such (don't remember the details), when he basically said "do whatever you want, but I won't be signing on that shit. Do you have the slightest idea how it'd look like to my people if I did?".
UAE has been so westernized thanks to tourism and foreign workers that the only "Arab" quality the country has is that it's in the middle-east. Besides, they don't have the regional influence the way other middle-eastern countries do.
I forgot about Egypt when typing my comment if I'm being honest. Apart from the obvious American dollars, it's mainly against Hamas due to it's history and ties with the Muslim Brotherhood. Still, a significant chunk of the country is also anti-Israel. So I don't expect it to respond too kindly to Israel's recent aggression. Maybe just a little more politely.
Apart from the obvious American dollars, it's mainly against Hamas due to it's history and ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The recent (post-2014) levels of dedication to their imperialist overlords is mostly American dollars. We've had pro-US administrations, but the Sisi one is the first to cooperate with Israel this much.
Still, a significant chunk of the country is also anti-Israel. So I don't expect it to respond too kindly to Israel's recent aggression. Maybe just a little more politely.
They, or well we to be more accurate, aren't doing anything. Sisi can't afford to say, much less do, anything because he both needs to maintain the bare minimum of appearances against the Egyptian populace and can't afford to actually make an enemy of Israel and the US.
It really shows that netanyahu's genocidal attempt to cling to power are not just brutal, inhumane and a risk to the whole region, but also strongly against israel's own interests.
Fascism always hurts itself in its confusion, along with everyone it touches, because it's a mental illness.
It really feels love Netanyahu literally would rather watch the world burn rather than give up power.
Finding common ground that accentuates the basic humanity between two warring groups is textbook diplomacy. Well done Israel, and best of luck fighting an enraged united muslim world, which is about 26% of the 8.18 billion people on the planet. Jewish people are 0.2 percent, mostly not in Israel. This is not going to end well.
Muslims at large dont care about opposition to Jews. Muslims and Jews lived together quite well, until Israel came into existence.
An united Ummah is not a threat to Jews or Christians. It is a threat to the US, Russia, China, India and others with aspirations of global power.
If you look at the history of how Northern Africa and West Asia were shifted from a colonial rule to a post colonial rule, it was done in a way to deliberately destabilize the regions. That is what Israel is so crucial to the US for.
I'm curious about what your referring to in the last paragraph, could you share more? (Or share an article or something on it)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
Basically countries like Iraq or Lebanon, the divison of Kurdistan etc. have no historical, cultural or economic basis. Instead they were designes to create unstable or easily destabilizable countries. The same was done in most areas of Africa or with the way India and Pakistan were divided
Are you actually saying that Sinwar's strategy paid off?