PNN – The US Secretary of State said in an interview in Davos that neither Israel nor the region will see peace, stability and security until the Palestinian issue is resolved.
According to Pakistan News Network, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday that if the Gaza Strip is razed to the ground once again within the next few years, the Arab countries will not be willing to participate in its reconstruction.
Blinken said in an interview with CNBC in Davos, in the Netherlands: “A new equation has been established in the Middle East, according to which Israel’s Arab and Muslim neighbors are ready to integrate Israel into the region, but they are also committed to the path of forming a Palestinian state.”
Blinken said that both the Arab countries and Washington believe that until this issue is resolved, neither Israel nor the region will see peace, stability and security.
The US Secretary of State stated: It is necessary to resolve the Palestinian issue. The Arab countries say that we don’t want to enter the process of, for example, the reconstruction of Gaza and see that in the next one to five years it will be razed to the ground again and we will be asked to rebuild it again.
He added: “We are now at a point where Arab countries, including countries like Saudi Arabia, are ready to do things in their relationship with Israel that they were never willing to do before. This path paves the way for a different future and a much safer future.”
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, who was present in Davos, also said that Riyadh will accept the normalization of relations with Israel only if a comprehensive agreement is reached that includes the creation of a Palestinian state.
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Negotiations mediated by the United States regarding the establishment of a Palestinian state in the lands now occupied by Israel failed about a decade ago. The extreme right-wing officials who are currently in the coalition cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are against the creation of a Palestinian state.
In the past months, the American government started negotiations with Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime and was trying to establish a compromise between the two sides. Plans for this action were sidelined after the October 7 operation by Hamas.
On October 7th, the Islamic resistance movement of Palestine, Hamas, in response to more than seven decades of occupation of Palestine and nearly two decades of siege of Gaza and imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians, started the operation known as “Al-Aqsa Storm”.
This operation was one of the deadliest attacks against this regime. Hamas fighters penetrated into the occupied territories at several points of the border fences, attacked the villages and besides killing a large number of Israelis, captured a number of them.
In response to this operation, the Zionist regime launched heavy attacks against Gaza and put this area under complete siege. Despite this, as analysts say, the al-Aqsa storm operation has imposed a major security-political defeat on Israel.
The authorities of the Israeli regime have declared their military goal in this war to destroy Hamas. Meanwhile, many analysts have questioned the possibility of realizing this goal, even in occupied Palestine.
For example, Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of the Zionist regime, wrote in a note in Haaretz newspaper a few weeks ago that Netanyahu himself knows that he is not able to eliminate Hamas.
The Islamic resistance movement of Palestine, Hamas, has survived the repeated attempts of the Israeli regime to eliminate itself since its inception. Military and political experts say that the structure of this organization is designed in such a way that it can resist plots to destroy itself.