Palestine, victim of a Hebrew-Arab current

Hassan Hanizadeh, Qodsna:

Five months into the ongoing anti-occupation Palestinian intifada, the Arab states have kept reticence towards the daily killings of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Zionist enemy.

The Egyptian government's move to flood the Gaza tunnels and strict grip on their travels to the outside world have caused a harsh situation for the Gazans who have already suffered an Israeli siege for years. The Egyptian President was expected to offer a more humanitarian treatment to the besieged population otherwise it has adopted a harsher one than the previous dictator of the country.

The Palestinian people's main problem however is not the Arab states' silence rather it is their siding with the Zionist regime, especially those which sit the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The council, led by Saudi Arabia has sought during the past year to create a security margin for the Zionist regime through demonizing the regional anti-occupation resistance and presenting Palestinian activists as violent. The recent visit by the Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel al-Jubeir to Israel and his meetings with Israeli authorities may be considered as an effort to set up a Hebrew-Arab front against the pro-Palestinian nations.

The council's members have already expressed their readiness to normalize their ties with the occupying regime. The aim to lift Israel from diplomatic isolation an instead push the regional resistance movements into isolation.

In light of the realities on the ground, the Palestinian nation has apparently devised a fully domestic mechanism to counter the Israeli aggressions and they are the ultimate winner as Israel could not tolerate any internal source of instability for long.

Israel faces challenges on several grounds, including high costs of provision of security for settlers, lack of cultural commonalities in the Jewish community, and growing reverse immigration. The ongoing intifada thus may change the balance of power in favor of the Palestinians if kept.