“RETURNING TO THE SOURCE”

Why is the return of unity in the Arab-Islamic resistance a fact?

By Ali Al Najafy

The complexity of relations between the various nations that make up the Arab world was undoubtedly altered by the forced implantation in 1948 of an artificial and arbitrary state, created by a group of European Zionists supported by a strong British (political and diplomatic) influence. With each year that Israel remained, the situation of the Palestinian Arab population became more precarious and at the same time the controversies and complications between the Arab states of the region were widening.

His permanence and subsequent influence over the entire region was due to the enormous support of the United States, especially during the period of Donald Trump. But in the current circumstances of geopolitical change with the war in Europe, the interests and priorities of the various actors in the Middle East are clearly affected to unexpected limits and that also reaches Israel.

The effects of Russian actions in Ukraine are shaping reunions and rapprochement between regional actors previously in dispute and that is not good for Tel Aviv. Added to the growing turmoil inside the occupied territories and especially in the West Bank, it is leading Israel's military and intelligence chiefs to try to propose solutions to an impossible situation. Although they manage to get some cooperation from Fatah, the fury of the villagers overcomes the fear that Abbas's henchmen try to impose.

The case of Iran and Saudi Arabia is central in this scenario since both nations have been for years -and fostered by Washington from behind the scenes- in a virtual state of war, measuring themselves militarily in Yemen and more covertly in Iraq and Syria. This undoubtedly worries Tel Aviv a lot since this situation meant a strategic advantage with expectations of increasing over time. It is known that Tel Aviv has been operating in Iraq for some time, increasing its presence after the 2003 invasion. With its Kurdish allies, the Israeli intelligence services with headquarters in Kurdistan have been part of the terrorist activities against Baghdad and especially against Iran.

The case of Syria was especially important for Tel Aviv since it remains one of the Arab countries with which it has been in a state of war for decades. The aggression orchestrated in 2012 from the West (USA, Great Britain and France) promised to end the Arab nationalist government of Bashar Al Assad just as the Anglo-Americans did with Saddam Hussein in Iraq and NATO with Muhammar Al Gaddafi in Libya. Clearly, the prospects were promising for Israel and that is why it gladly collaborates on those plans.

With the Syrians immersed in internal chaos and busy fighting terrorist gangs, the Israelis would take the opportunity to try to take advantage not only of Syrian territory and the internal situation in Lebanon (supporting “Al Nusra” jihadist gangs) but also, to extend its operations over the Horn of Africa and the entire Arabian Peninsula. But despite these grand expectations they were soon conditioned to maneuver without the freedom they thought they expected. In September 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin, considering what happened in Libya in 2011, aware of what was really happening and anticipating that it could spread to the Caucasus (ISIS terrorism), agreed to help the Syrian Arab Republic to fight terrorism.

We must not forget that context and the actors that were deployed. Despite the controversies that Barak Obama's statements aroused, it was his administration that took the lead in all this display. A confederation of Takfir and Wahabi groups financially supported by Riyadh and other gulf-monarchies, under the direction of Paris and later Washington, tried to tear the country apart and divide it into confessional regions, that is, a Sunni and a Shiite sector. To do this, they tried to implement urban terror with ghost cells that alternately attacking Christian, Sunni, Shia and Alawites targets would create rancor among the communities as they had done (through counterinsurgency tactics) in Iraq during the occupation (2003/ 2011).

Let us also not forget the crushing appearance of “ISIS” over Iraq in 2014 and the crucial role it played in the entire “Fight against Terrorism” hoax deployed by the US and lasting until 2017. The intervention of the Russian Aerospace Forces brought to light several embarrassing situations that betrayed the artificiality of “ISIS”. That exposed the duplicities of that pseudo-Islamic organization that received support from the Americans.

The rapprochement that they have achieved with the efforts of the Donald Trump administration through the “Abrahamic Agreement” with the United Arab Emirates could begin to capsize in the face of this change in relations in the Arab-Islamic world that regroups the Arab-Islamic resistance axis with the Palestinian cause as a center of action. Bashar Al Assad's tour of the Arab Emirates, Russia and Iran seems to demonstrate this, although the most accentuated concern is in the cooperation between Damascus and Tehran.

For Prime Minister Naftaly Bennett and his personal circle, this is due to Washington's loss of political weight in the region, and they accuse this of Joe Biden's unclear and weak management, which has been associated with the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.