Sinister Goals

The Arab world has witnessed a wave of normalization with the Zionist entity, a grave crime against the Palestinian people and their just cause. This normalization has been forced upon the Arab and Islamic public opinion, granting legitimacy to the existence and occupation of Palestine. Some governments have even rushed to glorify the supposed benefits of this act, concealing its flaws with weak claims that cannot stand up to the bright truth of Palestinian rights.

This devious normalization serves only the interests of the Zionist entity in all aspects, especially in security coordination, which comes at the expense of the people and the best of the nation's fighters. Economically, it turns the Zionist state into a beacon for normalizing nations seeking its intelligence technology. Politically, it ensures the security of its borders and regime at the cost of the freedom of Arab nations and their central causes. This process deeply harms the Palestinian cause and its people's struggles, attacking its strategic core and isolating it from its Arab and Islamic surroundings. It creates a false climate of stability that allows the Zionist entity to persist and survive.

Colonial Scheme

A closer look at the rapid pace of normalization in the Arab region, backed heavily by the United States, reveals the clear goal of eliminating the Palestinian cause. The so-called “Deal of the Century” promoted by the Americans is the strongest evidence of this, pushing the normalizing countries to pay for eliminating the Palestinian cause themselves. According to this plan, the only solution to the Arab-Zionist conflict is normalization in exchange for peace, which translates into widespread Arab normalization, along with some economic improvements and logistical support for the Palestinian Authority. This results in an “economic peace” that ends with losing Jerusalem, sovereignty, and the right of return for refugees. This is a major conspiracy targeting the Palestinian cause, with some Arabs either knowingly or unknowingly participating in comprehensive normalization.

The United States has played the role of facilitator in this Zionist-Arab normalization while simultaneously taking several steps against the Palestinian cause. The previous U.S. administration, led by President Donald Trump, took many actions that favored the Zionist state at the expense of Palestinian rights, including:

• Declaring Jerusalem as the capital of the Zionist state and moving the U.S. embassy to occupied Jerusalem.
• Cutting U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority.
• Fully cutting aid to UNRWA.
• Closing the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington.
• Recognizing Zionist sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
• Legalizing settlements in the West Bank.

This was followed by the U.S. administration approving the Zionist state's annexation of the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea, expanding settlements in the West Bank, and annexing 33% of the West Bank, all of which would effectively liquidate the Palestinian cause and end the right of return, dashing the dream of establishing a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.

All of this has occurred under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's false slogan, “Peace for Peace,” while many Arab countries rushed to normalize relations with his state, which targets the Palestinian cause, without offering a genuine solution. The abandonment of the Arab Peace Initiative further marginalized the Palestinian cause, turning it into a struggle solely for the besieged Palestinians.

Consolidation of Occupation

The normalization agreements, known as the “Abraham Accords,” signed on September 15, 2022, entrenched a new reality of occupation in the Arab region. Israeli diplomatic missions were opened in the signing countries, direct flights between Tel Aviv and these countries were established, and cooperation agreements in various fields were concluded. The demand for learning Hebrew increased, and opportunities for university studies, research institutes, and training courses in Israel became available.

These agreements led to the signing of numerous trade deals, economic cooperation agreements, and security arrangements. Cultural exchanges and tourist visits became more common, bringing these relationships into the open. This normalization altered the trajectory of the Arab-Zionist conflict, contributing to the expansion of settlements, the annexation of land, and further solidifying the occupation rather than resolving the Palestinian issue.

Contributing Factors

Throughout this period, authoritarian regimes in the Arab world sought to eliminate the concept of democracy, a goal supported by Western countries. They recognized two key facts: first, that free nations do not accept colonialism, enslavement, or dependence but instead make decisions based on their own national interests; and second, that freedom produces courageous, honorable men who fight for justice, defend each other, and struggle for the liberation of their homelands. These values clash with the goals of Western powers. To eradicate these tendencies among the Arab people, who are committed to their Arab identity, it was necessary to drag the ruling regimes into the quagmire of normalization and bind their fate to Western and American support. In this way, these regimes would become guardians of Western interests in the region, using their Zionist colony to crush anyone who dares to challenge them.

A Symbiotic Relationship

Palestinian liberation and the struggle in all its forms require, first and foremost, emancipation from these regimes, which obstruct the path to freedom and independence. This includes the abolition of all normalization agreements and their manifestations and uniting behind a unified Arab program that embraces the Palestinian cause and fights for it as a central issue. This calls for standing firm in Arab unity against conspiracies aimed at dividing and scattering the Arabs under the policy of “divide and conquer” and imposing an Arab agenda that can confront the West and its racist policies, reclaiming Arab rights instead of surrendering to the West and sacrificing Palestinian rights.

The connection between Arab liberation and Palestinian liberation is inherently intertwined. Liberating Palestine would mean the failure of the Zionist project and its tools in the region and the emancipation of Arab countries from Western and American dependence. The outcome depends on the heroes of this equation: the people, who must be aware of the colonial nature of their governments and vigilant against the danger of concepts that promote Zionist integration into the region and coexistence with it through normalization instead of resisting it and standing against it.

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