The world is changing around us

Only a few years ago, specifically during the tenure of the undeserved former US President Donald Trump, everything that happened in our local reality, our regional environment, and the world in general, was going against us: the United States, led by its eccentric president, imposed its hegemony over the entire world. The administration of this president - who is currently accused of committing criminal offenses - is blackmailing all Arab countries, withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Iran, and then adopting the vision of the Israeli extreme right to solve the Middle East issue according to his deal with Netanyahu, and its conclusion is normalization with the Arab countries and erasing the national rights of the Palestinian people, and replacing them with illusions economic prosperity.

On the Arab and regional level, many Arab countries were eroding from within and deteriorating in their internal crises and civil wars, so we saw how states and cities that were throughout their history the centers of Arab-Islamic civilization collapse. We have seen how the Arab world is divided into conflicting axes, and Israel finds in this conflict that it has fabricated and fueled loopholes through which it can penetrate, thus presenting itself as an ally of some parties in the face of an artificial enemy. And how it worked to promote the building of a new regional order in which it would have a place of supremacy and leadership and present itself as a country that loves peace and regional cooperation.

Our internal Palestinian situation was not in a better condition with the blockage of prospects for resolving our national issue, and the decline in the status of this issue in light of the accelerating regional developments, the continued division and confusion, and the failure of all meetings and conferences to restore national unity.

Together, these conditions tempted Israel and encouraged it to persist in its aggression, and to do everything that would eliminate any realistic opportunity for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Indeed, the Israeli governments have come to consider the Palestinian issue as a mere terrorist and demographic problem for the Jewish state, and when embellishing this talk they formulated it with expressions that suggest that The issue is a security, economic and humanitarian problem, which has deceived many international and regional parties so that they have agreed to focus their efforts on mitigating the effects of the occupation and improving our living conditions under its yoke, and not on ending this occupation, the fundamental cause of all our problems and most of the region's crises.

We were, then, in a period of decline that lasted for years, in which interests overshadowed principles, the balance of power shifted, the Arab system broke apart, the forces of the populist right, fascist and neo-Nazi forces prevailed, and abhorrent racism turned from a rejected and condemned tendency into a major trend that came to power in a number of major countries. And the smallest, in the countries of the center (the capitalist West) and the periphery (the Third World) alike.

But what exceeds his limit turns against him, as Israel's arrogance and arrogance pushed it into the arms of the extreme fascist right, which has come to rely on massacres and holocausts as "legitimate" tools to achieve its greed, exaggerating its aggressive policies to the point where it no longer recognizes the existence of the Palestinian people, and has become convinced of its ability to resolve the conflict and ending it simply because it has military superiority. And because nature prevails, these fascist forces, hostile to all that is human, could not be other than what they are in the face of their own people. Whoever tolerates the life of others who are different from him nationally, religiously, or ethnically, and violates his rights, cannot be kind, tolerant, and democratic with them. Those who disagree with his opinion and political position with his people of religion and race, and thus fascism revealed its ugliest hidden, and entered Israel into an unprecedented crisis, revealing its raging internal contradictions, and brought it to the brink of civil war.

On the international level, there are manifestations of retreat on the part of the US administration towards Middle East issues. It is true that Israel is still the spoiled daughter of the United States and the closest ally in the eyes of successive administrations, but Washington is now focusing its efforts on other regions. It became clear that the war in Ukraine is not just a confrontation between Russia and the Zelensky regime, but rather an open confrontation between Russia and NATO with all its members and capabilities. The United States is no longer the world's policeman, nor is it the recognized leadership, nor is it the final command as it is the only militarily and economically dominant pole on the planet, and now we find close allies to the United States who refuse to submit to the line and the role that Washington draws for them, especially by contributing to its war efforts against Russia, and its endeavors To besiege China and its rising role. The Iranian-Saudi agreement and the imminent restoration of diplomatic relations between them is only evidence of the growing Chinese role in shaping the features of the world of tomorrow. This agreement, which constituted a severe blow to Israel, will undoubtedly have an impact on resolving and dismantling a number of intractable files and crises, including the war on Yemen and the Lebanese crisis. What we hope is that this agreement will create good climates that will reflect themselves positively on our internal conditions.

Among the extremely important developments are indicators of the imminent end of the Syrian crisis in a way that guarantees the preservation of Syria's unity and territorial integrity, its return to the Arab League (or, more correctly, the Arab League's return to it) and its restoration to its natural position as a central state in the region.

It is certain that the solution to the Arab crises surrounding us will contribute to restoring the consideration of the Palestinian cause as the central issue in the Middle East and the most important global issue. Arab support and sympathy for our cause, and proof that our people will not surrender and will not be content with digesting and transgressing their national rights, but this effect remains incomplete with the continuation of the Palestinian division and as long as integration is not achieved between all forms of political, diplomatic, legal, international, public and resistance struggle.

The global, regional and Israeli changes are very important and may be decisive, but we will definitely not benefit from them unless we rearrange our cards and our internal home on the basis of restoring national unity and reconsidering the components of the Palestinian political system from the entrance to the comprehensive elections.