Arab countries must stop appeasing a violent expansionist Israel

In a TikTok video posted to his official account earlier this year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a group of orphaned children of Israeli soldiers a tour of his office, pointing to a picture of Al-Aqsa Mosque complex - only the mosque had been removed, replaced instead by a rendering of the Third Temple.

This is a picture Netanyahu looks at every day he is at work. It helps to shape the consciousness and decision-making processes of a leader who harbours ambitions to expand Israel’s territory through annexation or increased control over the occupied West Bank and Gaza, cutting off any possibility of a Palestinian state.

It was thus interesting to hear Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi assert emphatically last week that 57 Arab and Muslim countries were willing to provide security for Israel in exchange for the establishment of a Palestinian state - despite the ongoing Gaza genocide and bombardment of Lebanon.

In addition to the Palestinian issue, Israel has done immense damage across the region, including in countries that have normalised relations with Tel Aviv, fomenting public unrest.

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