This is a very optimistic statement, but it contains a great deal of realism. It is based on interconnected facts that lead to certainty that the dream of a Greater Israel, as conceived in the minds of extremist Zionists, will never be. However, the collapse of the Zionist dream will later cost a heavy price, for the defeated will burn everything green and dry before vanishing. Here we will gather many indicators and try to read them in their historical interconnection to conclude the impossibility of the dream coming true in the form presented to a world.
The (Israeli) entity has not drawn its geographical borders since it was established, leaving the door open for expansion on the ground and then on paper, content with two blue lines that the world initially understood as the Nile and the Euphrates, the dividing borders for the land of Greater Israel. Eighty years later, the two blue lines are still in place on the fabric, and the entity is besieged by Arabs who endure its existence, but it does not succeed in dominating them geographically or psychologically.
A new idea has taken hold in record time: the cost of Israel in the region and the world is paid directly by the Western citizen (European and American, not just Arabs) through their taxes and thus from their own livelihood. No matter how poorly we think of the Egyptian and Jordanian peoples in moments of emotion, they are two resistant peoples who have never surrendered to normalisation. This is a very important indicator that leads to a clear statement: Peoples will not accept, even under the coercion of regimes, for the entity to be part of the region.
This new position, as a state of awareness, we do not think will stop or falter in the face of initiating the Greater Israel project, whether by direct occupation of new lands (as the enemy clamours) or by exercising political hegemony over the region through using European and American power for political and military support and imposing deep normalisation on regimes.
We can detect a state of popular frustration and despair regarding the idea of seeking refuge in American military power. The US betrayed its allies and prioritised the (Israeli) entity’s security over them. This is another awareness shock working quietly against it and thus against the expansion project through normalisation, which created an imaginary umbrella called the Abrahamic religion. Iran was not destroyed; rather, it waged its war intelligently and is still achieving gains. It has exposed the limits of American power, forever undermining the reasons for fearing it.
If the (Israeli) entity becomes incapable of expansion and hegemony, the Arab government systems lose a primary reason for their existence. That is, they will find themselves facing their peoples once again, having to confront the demands of political freedoms and democracy. The popular restlessness for which we see many indicators will end in an explosion. It will swell rapidly after the regimes sense the weakness of Western and American protection for regimes… If the West abandons paying the cost of protecting the regimes (which is part of the cost of protecting Israel), they will stand exposed before their peoples.
The Arab world stands on the edge of a popular revolution that will end the dream of Greater Israel forever. Let us take a pill of patience and watch for a maddening moment that will forever end the Greater Israel project.
[by Noureldin Al-Alawi in Arabi21]
Compiled and Translated by Faizul Haque