This article discusses the transformations in the Arab and Palestinian vision of Israel in light of the qualitative and significant repercussions of the October 7, 2023 - Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the subsequent aggressive genocidal Israeli war of annihilation against the Palestinian people. The Al-Aqsa Flood operation constituted a qualitative shift in the resistance of the Palestinian people to the Israeli occupation army. It is also considered a military blow that shook Israel's self-confidence and revealed its inability to protect itself.
Such a new reality of uncertainty has contributed to a shift in the Arab and Palestinian vision towards Israel politically, militarily, and security-wise. The Palestinian resistance action moved from the theory of pushing aggression to the ability to initiate a defeat for the Israeli army. The myth of brute Israeli power receded, and its inability and failure to subdue the Palestinian will resist became apparent from 1948 until today.
The new realities Palestinian resistance could create and sustain Israeli defeat and retreat contributed to the collapse of the marketing arguments for implementing Palestinian and Arab security agreements and normalization processes with Israel. Furthermore, it became clear that the Palestinian resistance act was capable of defeating the Israeli occupation army with will, preparation, planning, and faith despite the lack of capabilities.
The Western allies were unable to protect Israel from these resistance attacks, and all forms of support for Israel could not stop the resistance, let alone defeat it. As such, the Arabs and Palestinians are wondering how the U.S. and some European countries could protect Israel when the Arab world's trend moves to support Palestinians in all needed forms of power to fight. However, the October 7 successful operation, on the one hand, and the brutal war of extermination and genocide carried out by the Israeli army in Gaza, on the other hand, constituted a shock to the Arab awareness that the path of normalization and coexistence with Israeli state is not to make peace. It is realized that such a trend is pushing practically to lay the foundations for instability and security in the region and to violate the rights of the Palestinian people under the hegemony of Israel over the Arab world.
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