A West Asia NATO-style force could be a bulwark against Israel’s expansionist ambitions

An emergency summit in Doha, called in the aftermath off Israel’s 9 September terror attack on the Qatar capital, has heard a proposal for a NATO-style force to act as a bulwark against the increasingly rash actions of the illegitimate Zionist entity.

NATO-style force to act against the impunity of Israel

According to reporting in The New Arab, the Egyptian plan:

would see a revolving command among the 22 members of the Arab League, all of whom would contribute to the joint force, while a civilian would serve as secretary-general. Egypt’s proposal would see its military hold the first term.

Were it to go ahead as described, it would exclude the likes of Iran, one of the nations to have suffered a severe cost from recent Zionist aggression. Many of the other members of the 57 nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation would also not be part of the plan as it is currently presented.

A previous proposal for a unified Arab military force was drawn up in 2015, at the height of the Saudi-led assault on the Houthis (heavily assisted by the US and Britain) in Yemen, as the Sunni-dominated former sought to ward off the latter Shia faction, which was backed by Iran. Such sectarian divides were an obstacle to the previous initiative getting off the ground, and may be again on this occasion. An additional incentive at the time was the emergence of ISIS, whose murderous revolutionary presence posed a potential threat to the despots of West Asia.

For its own part, the Zionist regime was ambivalent about the prospect a decade ago. Such a project of combined arms could potentially have been co-opted for use against the main Israeli enemy, Iran. It would also have represented a potential bonanza for Western arms companies, resulting from an overhaul of military equipment to be fully interoperable, along with a likely expansion of defence spending among participating nations. A similar dynamic is at play in the potential NATO expansion to former Warsaw Pact states in Europe.

An organisation of Arab unity: a threat to the Zionist regime

On the other hand, a NATO-style West Asian force would have represented a rare organisation of Arab unity with potential to threaten the Zionist entity’s ongoing project of land theft. As an addendum, some may argue an embryonic version of an ‘Israel’-aligned Arab front currently exists, given the unified defence of the genocidaires via Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan when Iran defended itself from Zionist aggression.

However, the context for this summit represents a shift in perspectives among the governments of West Asia, with the recent murder of six people in Doha by Zionist bombing causing a re-evaluation of relations with the butchers in West Jerusalem. There is talk of realignment around an alternative security partner such as China, with the US under Trump increasingly representing an unreliable guarantor of protection from the settler-led Zionist regime.

The US may eventually conclude that its backing for a tiny nation of seven million people is jeopardising its relationship with the two billion strong world Muslim population. It may be forced into the same shift the British had to make in World War II, as its success in the conflict was being harmed by the commitment to its pet “Little Loyal Ulster” project, which angered others in the region. A shift towards Arab placating Arab concerns followed.

The most significant deterrent against Zionist expansionism

The rulers in the region have shown little concern for the suffering of Palestinians, letting the genocide proceed without meaningful consequences for the Israeli perpetrators, but the attack on Doha seems to have focused minds. King Abdullah II of Jordan said the hit indicated a regime acting “without limits”. Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi declared it “crossed all red lines”. The calls for practical action to be taken against  Israel came from multiple quarters, with Pakistan’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar also seemingly endorsing a “combined security force”, saying the “nuclear-powered Pakistan obviously would stand as a member of the Ummah”. Potential sanctions such as cessation of trade with the Netanyahu regime were also discussed.

A unified Arab and/or Muslim reaction would constitute perhaps the most significant deterrent thus far against Zionist expansionism. The strike in Qatar has reminded Arab leaders of the extent of Israeli ambition, with the religious fervour of the settler (aka land thief) mentality pushing a belief in a Greater Israel that extends as far as the Nile to its West, and the Euphrates to its East. In the minds of the most extreme zealots, it means rule of anything on Earth that the Zionist bully conquers. The gravity of the threat is increasingly being realised, and a meaningful response must follow.

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