The Bennett-Sisi summit wouldn’t have acquired the eye it did within the Israeli media, on the eve of the Jewish Yom Kippur vacation final week, had it not been for the Egyptians. In line with the Israeli press corps, the Egyptian officers labored arduous to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and publicised his go to extensively within the state-controlled media.
Though Bennett left little doubt earlier than or throughout his assembly with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi {that a} “Palestinian state” shouldn’t be a part of his plan, this didn’t cease the fanfare and applause for the person, as if he have been a knight in shining armour come to ship peace. This was clearly to cowl up the truth that welcoming him, embracing him and being silent about his “noes” — which are not any totally different to these expressed by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir on the Madrid Convention in 1991 — was not for the aim of attempting to vary his place, as a lot as to get him to place in a superb phrase for Egypt with the US administration. One thing just like what he stated concerning the Jordanian regime throughout his current go to to Washington, maybe.
Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett meets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi within the first official journey to Egypt in a decade – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/Middle East Monitor]
At present, it has turn out to be clear that some Arabs have fallen into the arms of probably the most excessive of the various extremist politicians in Israel. Bennett is reaping the fruits of the efforts of his predecessors in Israel, given the circumstances of Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority. It appears that he’s even benefiting that not even Shimon Peres, former prime minister and president of Israel, was capable of do, regardless that Arabs noticed him as an Israeli peace dove for many years. In actuality, Peres was something however a dove.
Bennett can reap the fruits of his predecessors’ insurance policies as a result of he continues to comply with the Israeli doctrine of the brand new Center East, about which Peres spoke in 1991 when he coveted Gulf funds to develop Israel and the area. The situation then, as now, is that the mastermind and controller is Israel, and the labourers are the Arabs.
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A 12 months has handed because the normalisation agreements known as the Abraham Accords have been signed, which acted as a canopy for the UAE-Bahrain-Israel alliance and the following return of Sudan and Morocco’s public relations with Israel. Israel’s dealings with its “neighbours” and “Arab allies” is ironic; it desires cash and investments from the Gulf States below the slogan of peace for peace, but it surely desires peace for safety from the poor Arabs. This implies it desires the poor Arabs, together with the PA, Jordan and Egypt, to ensure Israel’s safety and stability, in alternate for its endorsement of their regimes within the White Home and retaining them on the listing of “average” nations.
When the occupying energy, below the management of its most nationalist and religiously excessive politician, Naftali Bennett, turns into the important thing to the White Home for these nations, then it has no motive to take their summits and appeals severely. Such regimes are freefalling into Bennett’s, and Israel’s, lap.
This text first appeared in Arabic in Arab48 on 18 September 2021
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