"Whenever Israel decides to stop its military campaign, what will remain are millions of traumatized Arabs who have watched their brothers and sisters in Palestine and Lebanon be slaughtered with gruesome impunity. These feelings won't easily subside,"
wrote Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
Netanyahu has spent much of his career
obscuring Palestinian concernsand calls for statehood while grandstanding over security threats his nation faces from Iran and its proxies. He touted the Abraham Accords — normalization agreements with a clutch of Arab monarchies — as a template for peace and prosperity in the region, even as it has further
kicked the proverbial Palestinian can down the road.
"Israel will not know lasting peace until it recognizes that its long-term security depends on reconciliation with the millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem," Gerges added. "Its leaders must find a political compromise that will finally allow Israel to be fully integrated into the region. Top-down normalization with Arab autocrats is not enough."
