Adapting to US policies will not protect anyone from their future repercussions.

With the escalation of Israeli crimes against our Palestinian people, the cessation of the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the threat of returning to the genocidal aggression with American approval, the clarity of the plans aimed at beginning the annexation of settlement areas, imposing new forced displacement, and the continued destruction of camps and displacement of residents. Arab leaders find themselves facing a historic test at the upcoming Arab Summit in Cairo. This summit comes at a time when Washington and Tel Aviv are trying to redraw the features of the region according to the "New Middle East" project, where there is a push towards political, economic and security arrangements that are in line with Israeli and American interests at the expense of the forces of national independence. Do Arab leaders realize the seriousness of this stage? Or will the summit turn into just another station for issuing statements that repeat themselves?

The Israeli-American plans go beyond the idea of military control to an attempt to impose radical changes on the political and demographic geography of the region. What is happening today in Gaza and the West Bank is nothing but a prelude to reproducing a new Nakba, by pressuring our Palestinian people and turning neighboring countries, especially Jordan and Lebanon, into arenas for liquidating the Palestinian cause through settlement and displacement projects.

In Lebanon, as a model, Israel seeks to liquidate the Palestinian camps there, and transform the refugees either into Lebanese citizens or displace them to other countries, in an attempt to end the right of return and liquidate the Palestinian presence in the diaspora, as refugees who have the right to return, and to resolve their issue according to UN Resolution 194.

As for Jordan, which is currently in the eye of the storm, the Kingdom is facing enormous pressure to accept the role of the “alternative homeland,” as the push is being made towards the final resettlement of Palestinian refugees, in the context of an American-Israeli project that seeks to dismantle the Palestinian issue and turn it into an internal Jordanian issue.

In Syria, where the de facto regime has accepted to be blackmailed after its invasion, despite the continuing instability, Damascus faces new challenges as the United States works to impose political and security arrangements in coordination with Turkey, which may include an attempt to impose official recognition of Israel after the continued violation of its territory.

Arab leaders realize that the Palestinian issue is not just a political issue, but rather the core of the conflict in the region. However, the major problem lies in the lack of political will to translate this awareness into practical positions. Some Arab countries see normalization as a strategic interest, while others are moving within the calculations of the balance of power with the United States, without realizing that adapting to these policies will not protect anyone from their future repercussions.

Under these circumstances, the upcoming Arab summit becomes a crucial moment. Either it adopts a clear position in the face of displacement and liquidation plans, or it continues to issue repetitive statements that offer nothing but justification for the Arab inability to reach a common position characterized by will and independence.

The main bet remains on the ability to confront American policies. Over the past decades, it has been proven that the ability to thwart Israeli and American projects is possible in the region. However, Washington and Tel Aviv realize that military confrontation alone will not be enough to weaken the rejection and confrontation of their policies, so they have worked to besiege the forces opposing them and try to end them in the region, by imposing war on them and trying to isolate them regionally and internationally under the pretext of terrorism, and creating a hostile internal environment for them in the countries that host them.

But will these plans succeed? History has proven that every colonial project, no matter how powerful, is destined to fail in the face of the will of the people. What we need today is a coherent political strategy that strengthens our internal unity and rebuilds the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative and holder of political and legal jurisdiction on the basis of the independence of national decision-making and the political will for national liberation and ending the occupation, far from any regional or international interference.

If Arab leaders continue to adopt an approach of appeasement, Zionist plans will advance, and the Arabs will find themselves facing a new reality, in which regional settlements will be imposed that will end the Palestinian cause as a national liberation issue and threaten the national security stability of sister countries. But there is still an opportunity to correct the course, by taking clear decisions that reject settlement and displacement, and restore consideration to the Palestinian cause as a central Arab issue, not just a diplomatic file discussed in final statements without effect, nor as an internal issue for some Arab countries.

The Arab Summit alone will not decide the fate of Gaza, but it will be an important station in crystallizing the official Arab approach towards the Palestinian National Authority and its role in the Gaza Strip. The summit is likely to witness an agreement to return the Authority to Gaza, but implementation will depend on the ability of the Arab countries to impose internal Palestinian understandings to end the division file, according to common denominators of vision and national responsibility to protect our people.

The region is going through a phase of forced restructuring, but what will determine the fate of this project is not only the strength of those seeking to impose it, but the ability of the Arab and Palestinian forces to confront it. The Arab summit may be the beginning of a political awakening that redirects the compass towards the Palestinian cause, or it may turn into another station in a series of Arab setbacks. The choice is in the hands of the Arab leaders, but the people realize that history is not written by conference decisions alone, but by resisting the imposed challenges and remaining steadfast and resilient.

Let the decisions of the leaders of South Africa, Malaysia and Colombia be an example of this, at the very least.

The effects of the current transformations and relations point to the beginning of a multipolar international system, where the United States, Russia, and China will all be influential powers in the Middle East, with the increasing role of the European Union today in challenging American positions and disagreements with it, which will lead to international relations without a monopoly role for the United States. The Middle East will witness a multiplicity of options and strategic transformations that may lead to a reshaping of alliances and regional balances of power. While the United States will remain a pivotal power within the framework of these transformations and multipolarity, it will not be able to shape the region alone according to its interests and those of Israel alone. This may allow all players in the region to negotiate and expand their alliances with other international powers to preserve their interests in this new system, and change the rules of the game by stopping appeasing the United States without results due to the nature of the strategic partnership relationship with Israel, which will not be similar to what happened with Ukraine for various reasons, the most important of which are ideological.