Warsaw and the dream of the Middle East

During his participation in the Warsaw conference on strengthening security and peace in the Middle East, which was held in mid-February under American auspices, US Vice President Mike Bens described the "beginning of a new era" conference, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as "Historical Transformation". These statements are a reminder of the major changes that have occurred in the region over the past three decades, particularly since the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations in the early 1990s. Some US and Israeli officials have described these transformations as the beginning of the 1990s. a "new Middle East" that will change the face of the region, end the rivalry between Arabs and Israel and place the Arab allies with America in one camp with Israel against their opponents.
In the early 1990s, Israeli officials, including Shimon Peres, endorsed the term "preaching a new Middle East more acceptable to Israel after the peace process." In 2006, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took over the same term as a promising new Middle East including allies with the United States, Israel and Iraq after the invasion of America into America. 2003. In both cases, the call was essentially US-Israeli, aimed at rebuilding the region. And Arab regimes are forced to accept Israel under US pressure at the unilateral stage of polarization, in the absence of any significant influence on the Russian pole, under various pretexts such as peace or the fight against terrorism.
In the early 1990s, the United States used the justification of peace to pressure the Arabs to accept Israel in exchange for progress in the negotiations, which were halted by the rise of the Israeli right and his preference.

"The Warsaw Conference appeared to be a non-permanent reformist alliance, in which the Trump administration brought together a group of its allies around a goal that it desired"

Unilateral solutions to make concessions to Palestinians. The "new Middle East", advocated by former President George W. Bush, was linked to his wars in the region after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and his war on terror. Where he invaded Iraq, and called on Arab countries to reform policy. But he quickly withdrew because of his mistakes in Iraq, the rise of religious currents in the elections of 2005 and 2006 and the expansion of Iran in Iraq.
The discussions between Netanyahu and Pens in Warsaw on the "New Age" and the "Historical Transformation", similar to the previous ones, are based on the American-Israeli interests and articulate around the dream of building a regional alliance of allied Arab regimes. to America and Israel, Currently).
The new call comes eight years after the declaration of a "new Middle East", unlike the one promoted by the United States and Israel since the early 1990s. On January 30, 2011, Maariv and Yediot Ahronot published a major title, New ", without prior coordination, to refer to what is happening in Egypt after the Egyptian uprising against the Mubarak regime (The New York Times, January 31, 2011).
At the time, Israeli newspapers had warned of the floods that swept through the region because of the revolutions of the Arab peoples, thus posing a historic threat to its interests, heralding the collapse of its regional strategy. , in force since the signing of the peace treaty with Egypt in the late 1970s. The Arab ally of America has allowed Israel to focus on conflict with small groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, and to get closer to Iran.
Israel saw the spread of freedom and democracy in the Arab countries as a threat to a new Middle East, in which the Arab peoples would obtain their rights, demanding justice and equality at home and abroad, thereby rejecting injustice against the Palestinian people. This is why Israel has partnered with counterrevolutionary forces, particularly in the Arabian Gulf (Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), and security institutions protecting old regimes, such as the United States. Egyptian army, to bring down the "new Middle East" created by the Arab revolutions.
In this context, the Warsaw Conference appears to be an American-Israeli attempt to revive the dream of a "new Middle East", even more radical than ever after America moved its embassy to Jerusalem Busy and cut off its aid to the Palestinians, the counterrevolutionary revolutions since the Arab Spring, which seem to want to give back to Israel and the US government, after helping to eliminate the revolutions.
The United States in Warsaw has promised no progress in peace negotiations between Palestinians

"Israel is associated with counterrevolutionary forces, especially in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates"

And the Israelis: the conference was an attempt to isolate the Palestinians, notifying them that they were no longer a priority for the Arab regimes, and Dennis Ross, the former peace negotiator American, is also focused on his comments inside the conference. In Warsaw, the United States did not call for political reforms of the Arab regimes, as was the case in 2006, but the conference in Poland, which suffers democratically. Thus, what happened in Warsaw was far from an alliance based on common values ​​and institutions. On the other hand, it looked like a non-permanent reformist alliance, in which the Trump administration was gathering a group of its allies around a goal it wanted to achieve, regardless of the members' interests. of the alliance itself. As a result, the Gulf countries participated in the conference without resolving the crisis of Qatar's siege, Arab regimes took part in the conference without addressing their various internal crises and Israel took part in the conference without debate serious about the imperatives of peace. On the other hand, the counterrevolutionary countries have expressed their support for the conference to be in keeping with their vision and welcome a new anti-democratic Middle East engaged in the struggle against religious and religious groups. Iran rather than through political reform.
This support was evident in the recording of Netanyahu, which was to be picked up by the media within the conference, before it was deleted. The recording is part of a closed-door seminar headed by Dennis Ross, with Bahrain's Foreign Minister, Khalid Al-Khalifa, the UAE's Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubair. He said that he realized at a later stage that there was a "bigger challenge", the Iranian challenge, and that Iran was the reason for not solving the problems of the region, including the Arab-Israeli conflict. This was confirmed by al-Jubeir, who pointed out that Iran was supporting Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine, while bin Zayed defended the Israeli attacks against Syria as a "legitimate defense".
Thus, the Warsaw Conference seems to be an attempt to revive the dream of a "new Middle East" in its US-Israeli sense, after the Arab Spring threatened to annihilate it. A "new Middle East" motivated by US pressure for the construction of an Arab alliance including Israel, an alliance with regimes indifferent to the people and its interests, anxious to fight religious currents and the # 39; Iran. This was welcomed by the counterrevolutionary regimes, which seemed more willing to participate and play, and played the most difficult cards, such as ignoring Palestinian rights and vague normalization with Israel.
In spite of all the above, the conference yielded little results as it took place in a different international and regional context, the US pole is much weaker and is now busy withdrawing its forces from the region and not to wage a new war against Iran. Russia became more uncompromising in the region and its meeting with Iran and Turkey in Sochi seemed to coincide with a conference at which some of the biggest European countries, such as Germany and France, were not enthusiastic about to the growing division between the United States and Europe. The Arab Spring always recalls, even after a while, a project "new Middle East" contrary to the US-Israeli project.