In the past few days, I have always seen some comments on the Internet: so many countries in the world should unite to eliminate Israel, why so many countries in the world can't defeat Israel. It's more funny, why do so many countries in the world want to do Israel? What are the benefits of doing Israel?
It is now widely believed that Israel is a villain in the Middle East, that Arab countries are bullied, and that Israel is domineering. And what is often overlooked is that Israel and the Arab countries have enmity. How many countries in the world really have enmity with Israel?
Israel has fought a total of five Middle East wars in the Middle East, and the Arab countries have fought almost all of them, and they all seem to be enemies and mortal enemies. But do these countries really have enmity with Israel? No. The first Middle East war was the largest of all, and several Arab powers participated in the war, and finally lost. The next few Middle East wars were fought in Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon, and the big Arab countries all watched coldly from the sidelines.
When Israel was founded, it did not invade Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iraq, but all of these countries started to attack Israel, nominally, they were giving their little Arab brothers a head, but in fact their purpose was to compete for the leadership of the Arab world. Including the subsequent Iran-Iraq war, Iraq also called on the Arab world to support itself in beating Iran, and Saddam Hussein also regarded himself as an Arab leader.
In the subsequent wars, the Arab powers found that they could not please them, and Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France were also about to leave, so they could not believe it, so they simply did not participate in the actions against Israel. Palestine, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, which have direct disputes with Israel, have been working with Israel, but the level of these countries is really not good, and Israel cannot be helped.
Israel's contradictions in the Middle East are actually not contradictions with the Arab world, but with Palestine. As far as things have developed, Fatah in Palestine began to coexist peacefully with Israel as early as 1993, and the current Palestinian-Israeli issue is not a complete Palestinian-Israeli issue, but a problem between Israel and Hamas.
In the Middle East, Israel appears to be powerful and embattled, but in reality it is a conflict with a Palestinian armed force.
And Israel is in the circle of Arab countries, and the current enemies are only Lebanese Allah, Syria, the Houthis, Hamas, and the countries that follow Iran in this circle. Other than that, Israel has no real enemies in the Arab world. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other countries have long since gradually normalized relations with Israel.
In the Middle East, there is another country that is not on good terms with Israel, that is, Iran. Iran is different from other countries, this is a country of Persians, and the Arabs are feuding, the relationship between the ancestors and the Jews is actually good, and the Pahlavi era is also an iron buddy, after Khomeini came to power, he began to shout all day long that Israel is a small satan and an illegal state.
Iran's purpose against Israel is not to be just, but to penetrate into the Arab interior and export revolution to the Arabs, for which the Iran-Iraq War was fought for eight years. Now it is beginning to woo Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, and build puppet forces in these countries, and use the war between Israel and Hamas to win over Hamas.
The Arabs and Iran have been fighting proxy wars for many years, and even in recent years, there is an informal alliance in the Middle East, called the Arab-Israeli alliance, also known as the Israeli-Sunni alliance, and their target is Iran. This alliance includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Jordan.
This alliance was promoted by the Americans, and there is another layer of relationship here: Arab countries and Israel are all friends of the Americans.
There are a total of 22 countries in the Arab League, and almost all of the countries that can be called are friends of the United States. Of these 22 Arab countries, a total of 10 countries have US troops stationed. With the exception of Syria and Djibouti, U.S. troops from other countries are stationed as allies, including Iraq. The US troops stationed in Iraq now are the ones who fought ISIS when they first fought ISIS, and the Iraqis could not defeat ISIS, and they were not invited to fight Saddam Hussein.
These Arab countries, like Israel, are equipped with American-made weapons in large quantities, such as F15, F16, and Patriot missiles. The common big brother of Arabia and Israel is actually the United States. In that circle of people in the Middle East, they belong to relatives and relatives, no matter how chaotic they are, it is also that little thing. Israel and many Arab countries have slowly begun to normalize, and the United States has contributed a lot behind it.
Now the Arabs pay lip service to Israel, but the actual relationship will not be too bad.
And Palestine is actually not so important in the eyes of the Arabs. Palestine itself is a periphery of the Arab world, and that large area has a Jerusalem at best. What's more, it is not the whole Palestine that is now in conflict with Israel, but only Hamas in Gaza, and the Palestinians in the West Bank are also looking coldly.
So now the attitude of the Arabs is very ambiguous, the mouth is full of scolding, we are very sympathetic to our little brother, Israel is too much, warn you not to go too far, and then give Gaza some airdrop aid, by the way, close the border, and the Palestinian refugees in Gaza will not come.
Israel and Hamas have been fighting for more than half a year, and in the Arab world, no country has come to help, at most it has provided humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. And those who claim to help Gaza, to deal with Israel, that is, those under Iran, the Houthis, Shiite militias, Allah, from time to time launch two missiles, drones, brush a sense of existence, the real damage is negligible, not as lethal as a rocket in the ruins. Israel is not used to Iran, looking back, to do Iran a real harm, and then Iran is left with only a mouthful.
Except for a circle of countries in the Middle East, it is even more unlikely that Europe will have any conflict with Israel, and NATO is completely following the United States. And Israel and NATO have no enmity, except for the German Holocaust that year. It is impossible for these countries to take the initiative to provoke Israel, and Israel's behavior in Gaza has nothing to do with them.
And Russia, which is considered by many on the Internet to be Israel's enemy, is even more unlikely to have a conflict with Israel. There is no contradiction between the two of them, and the relationship is actually good. In the early years, the Israelis returned to the country, and a considerable number of them came from the Soviet Union. At that time, many of the high-ranking Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union were also Jews. On Russia's anniversary a few years ago, Netanyahu and Putin also attended with a photo of the Soviet army.
In the Syrian civil war, Russia protected the Assad government, and Israel beat the Assad government. Every time Israel strikes Syria, the Russian S400 is turned off and bombed at will, and Syria is helpless.
The relationship between the vast majority of countries in the world and Israel is almost the same as that at home, and many people are dissatisfied with Israel, and the relationship between the government and Israel is acceptable. The people can't decide anything, and the government can't break off diplomatic relations or even hostility with Israel just because the people don't like it, just like Japan. What can the people do? At home, it is to post on the Internet, scold the streets, march abroad, and show solidarity with Palestine in public places, which are actually of little value.
At present, Israel has a bad image in the international community at best, but few people are really enemies of Israel, and few people are enemies of Israel, so no one will deal with him. There are few real enemies, and the strength is not very good.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas is, at best, a regional conflict. With an area of 365 square kilometers and a population of 2.3 million, Gaza is the size of a township. Including the Arabs.