T. Belman. In my 2022 Webinar, Mudar Zahran spoke about Jordan’s Future Between the Abraham Accords and an Arab NATO
Middle East expert, Eliahu Yosian, suggests setting up an Israeli-Arab NATO training unit: ‘We have technology and cyber skills and they have money and depth. An Israeli soldier has three years experience, we can train them in our combat methods.’
Iranian born Middle East expert, Eliahu Yosian, spoke with Arutz Sheva – Israel National News at the convention ‘Lessons from Gaza’ of the Sovereignty Movement.
“We will not eliminate Hamas by killing terrorists and destroying the Gaza Strip that will only be reinstated by Qatar”, Yosian emphasizes, “The appropriate response is to take the land from them”.
“I don’t believe that we can overthrow Hamas, because Hamas does not control Gaza, but Gaza thinks Hamas,” says Yosian, and adds that the Arabs of Judea and Samaria also think Hamas. So even if several thousand Hamas members are eliminated, the simple Gazan resident still believes in the Hamas view and will become a terrorist in ten years.
“We also can’t take out the capabilities of Hamas,” adds Yosian and explains his understanding of the Qatari decision to infuse funds into the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and this means that their capabilities will return to normal.
“There is no operational order to control the Philadelphi Route. The suggested solution I heard is to transfer the Philadelphi Route to Egypt, but according to the Egyptian Ministry of Interior, 40% of Egyptian residents believe in the Muslim Brotherhood and thirty percent believe in the Salafis, meaning that the Egyptian soldiers are either Salamis or the Muslim Brotherhood and will ignore future transfers of ammunition, so giving the keys of the Philadelphi Route to Egypt is not a solution.”
In addition, the left-wing regarded settling Gaza as a security card that gave Israel geopolitical depth. “We are moving forward and they are going backward.”
Yosian also points out that the vigilance of the residents of Judea and Samaria against an attack results in this region being less of a target for a terrorist attack, compared to Israel within the Green Line.
Given this data, the destruction of the Gaza Strip and the killing of terrorists does not lead to victory, since for the Muslim believer, the Qatari money will restore Gaza. “Eliminating terrorists is like cutting nails. You cut your nails, but next week you have to cut your nails again. You can’t say that you cut them today and won’t cut them next week. Today you eliminate a terrorist and in a few days you will have to eliminate another terrorist, and so forth in a week and in a month. I am talking about a strategic solution, which is Jewish settlement.”
Concerning Iran, Yosian believes that it is a mistake for Israel to position itself as a safeguard against the Iranian threat, when there are others in the Middle East also threatened by Iran. “The Iranians gave missiles to the Houthis to fire at Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The Iranians are the third circle of our enemies. The first circle is the Arabs of Judea and Samaria and the Arabs of Gaza, Syria, and Hezbollah. That is why, a Hebrew-Arab NATO should be established, according to the Abraham Accords we signed and the next agreement we are going to sign with Saudi Arabia. We have technology and cyber skills and they have money and depth. Each Israeli combat soldier has three years of experience, and we can train the Saudi and Arab soldiers with whom we have a common interest in our combat methods. Why should a discharged combat soldier look for a job at a train station for 35 or 40 shekels an hour, instead of being part of an Israeli-Arab NATO training unit.”
Any deal with the Saudis which was impregnated with the current US administration’s wisdom is not good for Israel. As long as they keep insisting on the TSS and convincing the Saudis to cooperate, it will not happen.
Teaching the Arabs how to defeat us is also out of range. Who came up with this idea?
Israel training Saudi soldiers? The devil is in the details.
“Saudis Overwhelmingly Oppose Ties With Israel, Poll Finds
The poll’s results reveal hurdles to the Biden administration’s push for Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
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The Rahmah Mosque area in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A poll found that 40 percent of Saudis expressed positive attitudes toward Hamas, compared with 10 percent in a poll several months before the Gaza war began.Credit…Giuseppe Cacace/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Vivian Nereim
By Vivian Nereim
Dec. 22, 2023
A new poll has found that 96 percent of Saudis believe that Arab countries should cut all ties with Israel to protest the war in Gaza, posing a significant challenge to the Biden administration’s push for Saudi Arabia to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
According to the poll, 40 percent of Saudis expressed positive attitudes toward Hamas, compared with 10 percent in a poll several months before the war began. Only 16 percent of Saudis surveyed in the poll said that Hamas should stop calling for the destruction of Israel to accept the creation of Palestinian and Israeli states side by side — the “two-state solution” to the conflict that the Saudi government publicly supports.
The poll, by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a generally pro-Israel research organization, surveyed 1,000 Saudis from Nov. 14 to Dec. 6.
While Saudi Arabia has grown more autocratic over the past eight years, analysts say that the country’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, must still take public opinion into account as he weighs decisions.
Before the war — when the American-brokered efforts to reach a Saudi-Israel “normalization” deal appeared to be gaining pace — American political analysts, U.S. officials and some Saudi officials had asserted that younger Saudis tended to care less about the Palestinian cause than previous generations and might therefore be more amenable to the idea of ties with Israel.
It is unclear to what extent that was true, given the lack of regular, reliable polling in Saudi Arabia — and considering the climate of fear created by deepening levels of political repression under Prince Mohammed. Since the war in Gaza began, vocal support for the Palestinian cause and antipathy toward Israel has been widespread among Saudis of all ages.
The positive views of Hamas that the poll found, while still a minority, are notable given that Saudi citizens can face prosecution for sympathizing with the Palestinian armed group, which launched the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.
In September, shortly before the war began, Prince Mohammed said in a television interview that the talks between Saudi and American officials were getting “closer every day” to a deal in which Saudi Arabia would recognize the state of Israel for the first time.
Saudi officials had been pushing for major concessions from the United States — including access to American nuclear technology and American security guarantees — in exchange for normalizing ties with Israel, balancing a trade-off between potential public opposition to the deal and the political gains it could bring.
The Washington Institute poll found that 95 percent of Saudis did not believe that Hamas killed civilians in its attacks, which left around 1,200 people dead in southern Israel, most of them civilians — including many women and children — according to Israeli officials. It is relatively common for Arabs to believe that reports of civilian deaths are Israeli propaganda.
In contrast, the focus for most Saudis and other Arabs has been the Israeli military’s siege of Gaza, including a bombing campaign that is one of the most intense this century and that has killed around 20,000 Palestinians, according to the health authorities in Gaza.
In the poll, 87 percent of Saudis said that the war had shown “that Israel is so weak and internally divided that it can be defeated some day.”
Just 5 percent agreed that Saudis should “show more respect to the world’s Jews, and improve our relations with them.”
The poll did find, however, that a majority of Saudis supported a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over a military approach. Three-quarters said that they supported the idea of an Arab diplomatic effort to make peace between the two sides.”
“Vivian Nereim is the lead reporter for The Times covering the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. She is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. More about Vivian Nereim”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-poll-israel-gaza-war-hamas.html
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“67% of Arab world: October 7 was ‘legitimate resistance’ against Israel”
“The 8000 respondents, from 16 different countries, answered questions on what they thought about Hamas, their opinion on Iran and Western countries, and what actions were needed by Arab states.”
“By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
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https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-782004