US President Donald Trump's visit to the Gulf states has concluded, bringing to an end the Palestinian expectations and speculation that filled Palestinian and Arab media regarding what the US president would announce during his visit regarding the war on the Gaza Strip. It seems that we Palestinians are deluded by the importance of the Palestinian cause, basing our expectations on the actions of other countries and organizations based on the Palestinian issue; as if the "Palestinian issue" were the center of the universe around which the world revolves, without taking into account the priorities, challenges, and needs of others, the risks facing our Arab and other sister countries, and the strengths and weaknesses of Palestine itself.
Despite widespread awareness of the extent of the pain and suffering caused by the Israeli government's war of extermination in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, this awareness can be translated into a number of concerns, measures, and decisions that express the concern of our brothers in the Arabian Gulf for the Palestinian cause. These concerns also take into account the priorities of the Gulf states regarding the imminent dangers, from their perspective, which view Iran as a greater threat than Israel. This is a fact that the Palestinian community is unaware of. This requires Palestinians to understand the interests of the neighboring countries ("the ring countries") and the Arab countries far from the ring countries, and their priorities, within the framework of understanding politics and its necessities, as well as the nature and magnitude of the risks, within the framework of understanding risk management for the national security of each individual state.
In my opinion, the three issues achieved by Trump's visit to the Arabian Gulf fall within the framework of the immediate and long-term interests of the Gulf states: the priority of avoiding the Iranian threat to the Gulf states, on the one hand, and economic leadership through future investment and diversification of these countries' economies, on the other. Concluding defense agreements and developing the military capabilities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, followed by lifting the US blockade on Syria to sever its relationship with Iran, return to the Sunni alliance, and prevent the resurgence of terrorism, are fundamentally aimed at eliminating the Iranian threat. Meanwhile, the agreements related to increasing investment in artificial intelligence and its implications in the UAE, in addition to acquiring a large number of aircraft, are investments in the future. Meanwhile, the agreements to invest more than $2 trillion in the US states aim to increase the diversity of income and revenue sources for these countries in the safest country for investment, the United States of America.
The success or failure of US President Donald Trump's visit to the Gulf states is not measured by Palestinian standards or elitist illusions of imperatives, but rather by a broader understanding of the different interests and priorities of sisterly and friendly countries, and the extent of the Palestinians' weakened strength due to internal division and the inability to unite despite the catastrophe that has befallen them for more than a year and a half, and that they still bet on the justice of their cause or that they are the center of the universe. It is not the extent to which their internal front has solidified at the political and popular levels through political decisions and solidarity among Palestinians with themselves in different geographical locations, or the leadership of popular action according to the nature or capabilities of the action they are attacking there.
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Trump's Visit...and the Palestinians' Measure of Success and Failure