Arab governments stood by for years as the U.S.-led peace process collapsed and Palestinian suffering festered. Now they are grappling with a calamity in the Middle East.
Yair Lapid, third from left, then Israel's foreign minister, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, third from right, pose with the foreign ministers of Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates in Sde Boker, Israel, in March 2022.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II canceled meetings last week with President Biden after a— condemned the killing of civilians by both sides but singled out Israel in calls to “lift the siege and stop military activity that has taken innocent lives and threatens regional and international stability.”Nusseibeh said that the plan hammered out with Israeli and U.S. partners to deliver “coexistence and cooperation” was now in jeopardy.
For Washington, competition with Russia and China took precedence over the Middle East. Successive U.S. administrations treated the region the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and a former Jordanian foreign minister. The last serious attempt came during the Obama administration. When Biden took office, his administration made clear “on Day 1” that it did not see brokering agreements between Israelis and Palestinians as a priority, Muasher said.
The recent protests, from Jordan to Morocco, have served as a “wake-up call” in the Middle East about the strength of public sympathy for the Palestinians, an Arab diplomat told The Washington Post. With the threat of a widening war have come increasingly dire warnings from Arab leaders, aimed in large part at Washington, Israel’s main military backer. Jordan’s Abdullah — a staunch American ally whose country has diplomatic relations with Israel — called the Israeli air campaign against Gazacruel and unconscionable at every level” at a peace summit held in Cairo over the weekend that was attended by U.S. and European officials.
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