L’IranThe Syria, Hezbollah and especially Hamas They expected a stronger stance towards the operation Israel in the Gaza Strip. The outcome of the extraordinary summit of heads of state and government Arab League and desIslamic Cooperation Organization (Oci), a Riyadhone highlighted instead Splits in the Muslim world between two blocs. The first to refer to it Tehran and identifies with the so-called Shiite Crescent, which rejects the two-state solution, which condemns, calls for and condemns Tel Aviv raids on civilians without appeal Sanctions towards Israel and supporting Hamas until the liberation of Palestine. The other, driven bySaudi Arabia and by the Gulf monarchies, despite condemnation of the executive’s violent response Netanyahu After the Islamist attack on October 7th, he has no intention of breaking off the connection he had laboriously established with the so-called “Jewish State”. Especially from an economic point of view.
Their own statements prove that the summit last Saturday did not go as Iran and the Hamas leadership had hoped. For the Palestinian armed party, the meeting did not reveal “effective measures and immediate mechanisms to stop the war against our people,” it said Osama HamdanHead of training in Lebanon – We expected our Arab and Muslim brothers to use all their political and economic strength to exert pressure Washington to immediately stop the aggression against civilians and children.” Also Tehran One cannot say that one is satisfied with the outcome of the extraordinary summit: “The resolution adopted yesterday during the joint summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League on Palestine is strong, but Iran is concerned about four of them.” its clauses that include the resolution of the Palestinian crisis on the basis of Two-state solution and also that of the recognition of Borders from 1967 for Palestine – said the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Wet Kanani – Iran believes that Israel has no rights to Palestinian land.”
The event recorded the historic meeting between the President Ebrahim Raisi and the crown prince Mohammad bin Salmanas well as that between the head of the Iranian executive branch and the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. There were all the prerequisites for a final communiqué that would unite the Arab-Muslim front against the State of Israel, and that was what they hoped for in the Islamic Republic. Which, however, had to change her mind. While Tehran called for an immediate halt to the operation in Gaza and the right of Palestinians to exercise their authority over all of Palestine, “From the Jordan to the Sea”So, since the Saudi monarchy did not consider the existence of an Israeli state, it instead sent a message that was more in line with the message also spread by Saudi Arabia in recent days United Nations: “The end ofProfession Israeli and the illegal settlementsthe restoration of the acquired rights of the Palestinian people and the creation of the state within the 1967 borders East Jerusalem as capital”. The request was formalized in the final communiqué of the summit and rejects the hypothesis of separation Gaza And West Bank.
The fact that the crisis in the Gaza Strip is also moving towards a kind of “normalization” in the attitude of the Arab countries can also be read in the Oil and gas prices. The two commodities had experienced a certain, not unbalanced, reaction in the days following the October 7 attack, but now there is calm as the major producers in the region appear to have no intention of engaging effectively with the Palestinian cause. Between October 7 and 20, the price of a barrel of Brent, the benchmark crude oil for two-thirds of world trade, rose from $84 to $92, only to fall back to below $80 in the following weeks, its lowest level since last July. A similar dynamic characterized gas, which initially jumped from 41 to 56 euros per megawatt hour and has now returned to the 45 euro zone. After October 7, Israel blocked gas exports to Egypt for security reasons, but now gas flows are steadily increasing, although they have not yet fully reached the levels before the outbreak of war. Some of the gas ends up in Israeli sea fields Egypt It is then exported again Europe by ship in the form of Liquefied gas.
You are exactly the right person Trade and economic relations to have contributed to diluting the positions of the Arab countries. In recent weeks, the governments that have come closer than any other over Israel have been Abraham Accordsto which was added Saudi Arabia, which was about to conclude a historic agreement with Tel Aviv, had strong sentenced the actions of the so-called “Jewish State” so much that he promotes them Riyadh to block a process of rapprochement that many observers now took for granted. Apparently it prevailed at the top of the monarchies the national interestas opposed to a new one insulation of Israel in the area. The Saudi investment minister was present on October 8th, three days before the Riyadh summit Khalid al-Falih, to make it clear that Saudi Arabia and Israel still have the possibility of rapprochement: “The currently suspended talks are subordinate to a peaceful solution to the Palestinian issue. Last month’s setback highlighted why Saudi Arabia has been so persistent in demanding that resolving the Palestinian conflict be part of a solution broader normalization“.
The appeals of the Palestinian president Abu Mazen They then found an Arab and Muslim world divided into two blocs. Tehran invites “Kiss the hands of Hamas for his opposition to Israel” and “break off all diplomatic relations” with Tel Aviv. But they don’t hear us from the Gulf: Condemn Israel’s crimes in Gaza, ask for one armistice and an alignment of the West with these positions. But we won’t go there direct collision with Israel.