Dana AlKurd (Dana Al-Kurd) — episode contributor on Palestine
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Qatari youth just lit the match.
Now, to understand why people were so upset, you have to understand the Abraham Accords.
I've talked about it on this podcast before.
The normalization agreements brokered by the Trump administration in 2020 between Israel and the UAE, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and later Sudan and Morocco.
These deals were sold as historic breakthroughs, as a new era of peace.
And in terms of official diplomatic relations, they were breakthroughs.
They were historic, but there was a problem.
Nobody asked the people, and these accords didn't solve anything.
Now, Arab public opinion surveys have consistently shown that the vast majority of Arabs oppose normalization with Israel, absent a resolution to the question of Palestinian statehood and the ongoing occupation.
And in the most recent polling before the Accords, it was something like 88% of Arabs across 13 countries that rejected normalization with Israel.
And nearly two-thirds of those cited the occupation of Palestinian land as their reason.
Only 7% cited something like religious objections.
The fear had always been that if you normalize relations with Israel without a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel would not have any reason to try and resolve the conflict or address the grievances of Palestinians.
That Israel perhaps would become more aggressive if the guardrails were off.
So what the Abraham Accords actually did from the perspective of ordinary Arabs was deepen the sense that their governments wouldn't listen to them, were willing to sell them out, sell out the Palestinians for economic and security arrangements that disproportionately benefited ruling classes anyway and the U.S.-Israeli security architecture.
I've written about this academically, and what I found is a kind of paradox at the heart of these so-called peace deals.
Peace initiatives that don't address the root causes of conflict don't actually create peace.
They create a different kind of violence, a structural violence, because they maintain the root causes of conflict, and they enable authoritarian practices by governments.
So Israel shares a lot of tools, surveillance technology, propaganda frameworks, security cooperation, both material and discursive tools.
And these have a way of turning up in the hands of governments repressing their own citizens.
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