Entire Middle East concerned about their ‘safety’, ‘future’
Reporting from Amman, Jordan
Al Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned in Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The public in the region has been horrified for the past 20 months. They’ve been horrified watching carnage in Gaza, watching decimation and destruction in Lebanon, watching Israel exercise free rein over the skies of Syria, watching Israel take over the region as a military hegemon.
Governments in the region are very aware of the potential fallout. This is not something that will pass if it is carried through to the end with US participation.
Israel is trying to capitalise on the idea that only the US can wrap this up quickly and open a new dawn in the Middle East. But the only ones cheering this on right now are in Tel Aviv.
Everyone else in the region is not just concerned, but they have very serious questions about their safety, their security and their very future. This is especially true for the Palestinians, who fear that what is happening right now will come at their expense, that their national aspirations for freedom will be entirely decimated.