Arab recognition of Israel rewards its relentless land theft
The US is pushing Arab and Muslim-majority countries to normalise relations with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. This has led to questions about Israel's borders, which have been a contentious issue since the country's establishment.
Intelligence analysis by Llama
The US is pressuring Arab and Muslim-majority countries to normalise relations with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. Israel's borders have been a contentious issue since the country's establishment.
Imagine a country that was built on taking land from other people and expanding its borders. This country, Israel, has been doing this for a long time and is still doing it today. The US is pressuring other countries to be friends with Israel, even though Israel is still taking land from the Palestinian people. This is a big problem because it means that Israel is getting away with its bad behavior and the Palestinian people are still suffering.
Analysis
A History of Land Theft and Expansion
The very essence of European settler-colonial states since their inception has been the continuous theft of indigenous territory and the expansion of their borders. From the United States to South Africa, and from Canada to Australia, New Zealand and Israel, the hunger of settler-colonies for more territory and for ever-expanding borders has been a defining feature of their policies.
Settler-colonies often invoke arguments of national security to justify this insatiable hunger for territory, backed by racially supremacist ideologies. Since its emergence in Palestine during the Crusades, European settler-colonialism possessed an intrinsic ambition to expand its territories and borders. Israel has always been more explicit about its hunger and avarice for land, which it justified through European Jewish supremacy and, later, pan-Jewish supremacy.
The US and Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People
The US is pushing Arab and Muslim-majority countries to normalise relations with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. These demands have intensified since the US and Israel launched their war of aggression against Iran in February. Washington's long-standing push for Saudi normalisation continues unabated, as does its pressure on Qatar, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, and Indonesia, among others, to follow suit.
The Question of Israel's Borders
Which Israel, and which borders, are these Arab and Muslim-majority countries required to recognise? New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters Which borders of Israel did Egypt and Jordan - let alone the Palestine Liberation Organisation - recognise when they normalised relations in 1978-1979 and in 1993-1994, respectively? What about the Arab countries that signed the Abraham Accords in 2020-2021? These are essential geopolitical questions when one is dealing with a settler-colonial superpower demanding that decolonised countries and colonised peoples recognise its settler-colonial proxy state in the Middle East and normalise relations with it.
Key points
- The US is pushing Arab and Muslim-majority countries to normalise relations with Israel, despite its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.
- Israel's borders have been a contentious issue since the country's establishment.
- The normalisation of relations between Arab and Muslim-majority countries and Israel has significant implications for the region and the Palestinian people.
- The international community's failure to hold Israel accountable for its actions will only continue to embolden the country's aggressive behavior.
If the international community continues to pressure Israel to stop its expansion and recognize the rights of the Palestinian people, there may be a chance for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. However, this will require a significant shift in the policies of the US and other countries that support Israel.
The ongoing expansion of Israel and its refusal to recognize the rights of the Palestinian people make a peaceful resolution to the conflict unlikely. The international community's failure to hold Israel accountable for its actions will only continue to embolden the country's aggressive behavior.
