China is Not Looking at Its Influence in the Middle East, “China is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Palestine to promote an early, comprehensive, just, and lasting solution to the Palestine issue.”

China is Not Looking at Its Influence in the Middle East, “China is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Palestine to promote an early, comprehensive, just, and lasting solution to the Palestine issue.”

America’s legacy in the Middle East is wars and arms sales, not peace.

Mujeeb Khan

  

"Today, we jointly announced the establishment of the China-Palestinian strategic partnership, which will be an important milestone in the history of bilateral relations"  

 

 

  After President Xi’s visit to Saudi Arabia, the political landscape of the Middle East has changed. The sun will now rise in the east and set in the east. The restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia is the most important news of this year. The Arab League has reinstated Syria’s membership. And President Basher al-Assad’s participation in the Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia was welcomed. President Xi has awakened the Saudis, after seventy years, they have understood that regional problems cannot be solved by external intervention. The Saudis listened to President Xi, considered it, and then tried it, they saw how quickly they solved the Iran problem in a brief period. The Shia-Sunni conflict ended. Relations with Syria were restored, the war in Yemen ended, and all these were issues related to peace which resolved in the region. Unnecessary wars, unnecessary tension, and unnecessary differences have been created in this region. Billions of dollars are unnecessarily wasted on weapons. If the leaders of this region would keep their politics in their hands and put their interests first, this would be the most prosperous region in the world. But the sad thing is that after the end of the cold war, new wars started in this region, not peace. Arab rulers were close allies of the United States during the Cold War and they had spent billions of dollars on the Cold War, their people gave their lives to defeat this war. But what did they get? The conflict in Palestine was created by America and its Western allies. But in 75 years America and its partners have not been able to resolve this conflict.

  After President Xi’s visit to Saudi Arabia, the frozen conflicts in the Arab world have started to thaw. While economic activity is also seeing movement, the region is plagued by conflicts. The colonial and imperialist policy of divide and rule controlled the Arabs, and now in 2023, the Arabs were freed from this colonial and imperial control. For over fifty years, every president of the United States has visited the Middle East, but their visits never brought peace and stability to the region. After the 1973 Arab-Israel war, President Nixon made seven trips to the Middle East. President visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Jordan, but there was no progress in resolving the dispute between Arab and Israel. President Carter made five trips to the Middle East. President Carter visited Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, and Egypt. President Carter signed the Camp David Agreement between Egypt and Israel. The Arab countries condemned the Camp David agreement and severed relations with Egypt. President Anwar al-Sadat signed the Camp David Accords on the condition that Israel would negotiate with the Palestinians and an independent Palestinian state would establish. Egypt will terminate the Camp David Accords if Israel does not implement it. President Anwar Sadat was killed. Husseini Mubarak became the president of Egypt, and President Carter lost the election. President Reagan did not consider it necessary to implement the second part of the Camp David Accords. President George H. Bush visited Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia; they were about the war against Iraq.

 President Bill Clinton made the most fourteen trips to the Middle East. In 1993, the Palestinians and Israel signed the Oslo Accords. The Palestinians had recognized the existence of Israel, and Israel recognized the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. President Clinton worked tirelessly to make the Oslo Accords a success. The Palestinians and the Israeli government had agreed on some issues, but the Palestinians were asking for more of Palestine, and the Israeli government was willing to give 90 percent. It was the last day of President Clinton’s administration. The George Bush administration had launched a war against Iraq, Afghanistan, and terrorism. Israel had the opportunity to occupy more Palestinian land, and Israel had 500,000 new Jewish settlements in occupied Palestine. Every Israeli aggression against the Palestinians is supported by the United States in the Security Council.

  America’s legacy in the Middle East is wars and arms sales, not peace.