OK. You take issue with the binary, black-and-white ways in which this conflict is discussed. Understood.
But you still say certain things "have nothing to do with Israel." How can that be? Israel's existence and bloody reinforcement of its existence is the root cause of it all. So other countries fear having Palestinians refugees in their countries, and by extension, Palestinian militants, because those militants will use their host countries to agitate or launch attacks against Israel, which will invite retribution from Israel. Hence why Jordan and later Lebanon both kicked out the PLO.
But the root cause is still Israel's existence, how it was established, and how it is reinforced.
Earlier you mentioned how "the very Sunni Hamas is only openly backed by very Shia Iran and only supported tacitly by Qatar and to an even lesser degree, Turkey" but you didn't elaborate on this point. But if anything, that should tell you how these other countries support Palestinian militants because they regard Israel as an existential thread to their own sovereignty.
Nod your head to this!
My point is that Hamas is so wild/shambolic that they had to seek support from
literally the Shia state to get support. Only tacit support from Qatar and Turkey because both like to chase for clout.
Keep in mind that a lot of militant sunni groups hate shia more than non-muslims etc.
As I started off saying, there would be no open air gaza prison but for Egypt AND Israel.
As for Israel, my point is that BGOL and social media hate Israel way more than actual Arab governments do. Saudi was about to normalize relations and plenty of other Arab countries have full diplomatic relations. Saudi has gone way harder on Yemen than anything Israeli or sympathetic see Trump, see Kushner see Bush etc. This isnt new though, only on bgol aka more arab than actual arabs...
This is from 2017:
There are many hands behind the Israeli army’s onslaught on Gaza. America is not unhappy that Hamas is getting such a beating. As footage of the scenes of carnage on the streets of Shejaiya was coming through, John Kerry said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that Israel had every right to defend itself and the US ambassador Dan Shapiro told
Israel’s Channel 2 news that the US would seek to help moderate forces become stronger in Gaza, meaning the Palestinian Authority.
Nor is Egypt overcome with grief. Its foreign minister Sameh Shoukry held Hamas responsible for civilian deaths after their rejection of the ceasefire.
Neither matter to Netanyahu as much as the third undeclared partner in this unholy alliance, for neither on their own could give him the cover he needs for a military operation of this ferocity. And that can come not from a handwringing but impotent parent like the US. Such permission can only come from a brother Arab.
The attack on Gaza comes by Saudi Royal Appointment. This royal warrant is nothing less than an open secret in Israel, and both former and serving defense officials are relaxed when they talk about it. Former Israeli defence minister Shaul Mofaz surprised the presenter on Channel 10 by saying Israel had to
specify a role for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the demilitarisation of Hamas. Asked what he meant by that, he added that Saudi and Emirati funds should be used to rebuild Gaza after Hamas had been defanged.
Amos Gilad, the Israeli defence establishment’s point man with Mubarak’s Egypt and now director of the Israeli defence ministry's policy and political-military relations department told the academic James Dorsey recently: "Everything is underground, nothing is public. But our security cooperation with Egypt and the Gulf states is unique. This is the best period of security and diplomatic relations with the Arab.”
The celebration is mutual. King Abdullah let it be known that he had phoned President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to approve of an Egyptian ceasefire initiative which had not been put to Hamas, and had the
Jerusalem Post quoting analysts about whether a ceasefire was ever seriously intended.
Mossad and Saudi intelligence officials meet regularly: The two sides conferred when the former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was about to be deposed in Egypt and they are hand in glove on Iran , both in preparing for an Israel strike over Saudi airspace and in sabotaging the existing nuclear programme. There has even been a well sourced claim that the Saudis are financing most of Israel’s very expensive campaign against Iran.
Why do Saudi Arabia and Israel make such comfortable bedfellows? For decades both countries have had a similar feeling in their gut when they look around them: fear. Their reaction was similar .Each felt they could only insure themselves against their neighbours by invading them (Lebanon, Yemen) or by funding proxy wars and coups (Syria, Egypt, Libya). They have enemies or rivals in common - Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Hamas in Gaza, and Muslim Brotherhood elsewhere. And they have common allies, too - the US and British military industrial establishments, Fatah strongman and US asset Mohammed Dahlan who tried to take over Gaza once, and will probably be ready to do so again.
This Saudi-Israeli alliance is forged in blood, Palestinian blood, the blood on Sunday of over 100 souls in Shejaiya
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