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Tue 17 Jun 2025 9:14 am - Jerusalem Time

Changing the Middle East is about division, genocide and destruction.

Fawzi Ali Al-Samhouri

Fawzi Ali Al-Samhouri

Opinion Writer

Transforming the Middle East is a long-standing American goal that the Israeli entity has begun implementing practically as an agent of America, according to statements made by the leadership of the colonial Israeli entity and the United States after October 7, 2023.

What does it mean to change the Middle East?

First: Integrating Israel into the Arab world and its dominance over the Arab region.

Second: Liquidating the Palestinian cause by undermining the Palestinian people's right to freedom, independence, self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state, and by forcibly displacing the Palestinian people by repeating the scenario of 1948 and 1967, and in implementation of the American goal of expanding the territory of Israel, which was established on the basis of a colonial occupation of Palestine, to enable it to perform its functions as a launching pad for aggressive expansionist colonial powers.

Third: Re-dividing Arab and Islamic countries into small states, or at best, into regions based on sectarian, denominational, and ethnic foundations, with the aim of destroying their internal fronts, ensuring their subordination, plundering their wealth, and continuing the threat of destabilizing the security and stability of those countries, in anticipation of the birth of a multipolar world order.


Mechanisms for implementing the Israeli-American plan

First: Supporting the terrorist Israeli entity with all means of military, political, economic, and technological power, and granting it immunity from the possibility of being held accountable and punished before international courts, institutions, and bodies.

Second: Unleashing its aggressive hand, with American protection, throughout the Arab and Islamic region. The American position on continuing to support the commission of war crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and, to a lesser extent, in the West Bank, and its use of the veto to refuse to stop the aggression and lift the comprehensive siege on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the theft of the Palestinian people’s money are only indicative examples.

Third: Neutralizing and excluding the United Nations from carrying out its responsibilities to achieve its goals by implementing its charter and resolutions by obligating the Israeli entity to implement all international resolutions under the threat of sanctions, leading to comprehensive isolation, with clear duplicity in a clear policy that expresses the adoption of a policy of imposing a fait accompli resulting from the use of brutal military force and the exercise of political influence by using the stick and the carrot to pressure countries at critical junctures to change their positions by excluding the principles of right, equality, justice, sovereignty, and the territorial integrity of their countries.

Israel's refusal, due to its bias and absolute American support, to respect its obligations and fulfill the requirements and conditions of its acceptance as a member state of the United Nations, by implementing hundreds of resolutions issued by the Security Council and automatically by the General Assembly and the International Court of Justice regarding the Palestinian issue in general, foremost among which is the cessation of its crimes of "genocide, ethnic cleansing, war, and crimes against humanity" and the end of its occupation of the territories of the occupied and internationally recognized Palestinian state, is nothing but an indication of the American coup against the principles of the United Nations and international covenants, charters, and agreements.

Fourth: Using financial aid and employing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank as pressure tools to subjugate countries that refuse to accept its policies, and President Trump's threat to do so, to pressure Egypt and Jordan to accept the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip and receive hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced persons, the greatest crime of the age, by uprooting a people from their homeland, in fundamental contradiction with international law and the right of peoples to self-determination in their authentic historical homeland.

We have always warned, as writers, analysts, politicians and parties, that the practical abandonment of support for Palestine and the struggle of its people, the vanguard of the Arab people, until they achieve freedom and independence, and the collective confrontation of the plans of the American-backed Israeli enemy by adopting a unified strategy that finds its way to implementation by all available means, capabilities and tools in confronting the plans of the Israeli colonial occupation authorities, the agent of the American axis, which aim to perpetuate its occupation of the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories, means enabling the Israeli colonial entity to move to the second stage of its aggressive expansionist policy represented by the geographical expansion of the artificial entity in the surrounding countries, leading to the establishment of “Greater Israel.”

Post-aggression against Iran

Since the beginning of the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the war criminal Netanyahu and his gang have been talking about this as the beginning of a change in the Middle East "according to the Israeli-American vision." They brazenly and arrogantly declare that they are going to change the Middle East, i.e. subject all the countries of the Middle East "the Arab countries, Iran, Turkey, and others" to American influence and hegemony through the Israeli agent and tool to be the policeman of the region.

Netanyahu, with his criminal mentality, believes that the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and the forced displacement of its people have become guaranteed after the statements of US President Trump and his ambassador to the Israeli entity, expressing his policies that there is absolutely no place for a Palestinian state on the land of Palestine, "Judea and Samaria" on the land of the occupied Palestinian state, which is internationally recognized. This prompted him to escalate, expand, and occupy new lands, coupled with the systematic destruction "in Syria and Lebanon" of infrastructure and natural resources. He followed this with a barbaric, destructive aggression against Iran, which, if he achieves his aggressive goals of subjecting it to American influence and hegemony on the path to dividing it, will ensure its continued existence as an advanced military base that will contribute in the future to forming a cordon aimed at besieging China and limiting its influence on the global economic arena. This necessarily requires, for the colonial plan to succeed, a move to the next target of the Israeli-American plan, which is Pakistan, due to its military, demographic, geographical, and strategic power, and its position in the Islamic world.

This is how Palestine began, since the creation of the artificial Israeli colonial entity on the land of historic Palestine, the heart of the Arab homeland and the Islamic world, due to its religious status, which constitutes the challenge to the unified practical confrontation of the colonial plans that aimed to divide the Arab and Islamic world into countries subject in one way or another to the colonial hegemony and control, with its symbols being Britain, France and America. This enabled the Israeli enemy, America’s tool, to encroach on the Arab and Islamic world and threaten to undermine any country, near or far, that thinks of liberating itself from the American umbrella.

Aborting the Israeli-American plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause and the forced displacement of the Palestinian people outside their homeland, and confronting the Israeli-American plan to change the Middle East (dividing its countries) requires a serious and effective political will on the part of the leaders of the Arab, Islamic and friendly countries to embody solidarity and joint action and translate it into practical action by taking punitive and pressure-filled measures against the terrorist Israeli entity, its sponsor and guide, as a message to America that its bias and support for the Israeli entity with its aggression and steps towards changing the Middle East will not achieve its political and economic interests in the medium term, but will rather increase hatred and hostility towards American policy.

Palestine is the first line of defense. Its collapse, God forbid, would mean a gradual collapse for all Arab and Islamic countries. Let us unite our efforts before it is too late.

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