The Abraham accords amounted to a series of bribes to buy the compliance of every anti-Israel state in the Middle East - with the important exception of one: Palestine.
Palestine saw through this, which is why they attacked. They saw that they were being abandoned by their Muslim neighbors, their “allies in god”, so they tried to crystallize everyone’s loyalties via open attack.
The fallout has been very interesting. Surrounding nations have acted big mad, but it mostly seems like a toothless response intended to assuage the anti-Israel majorities within their own countries. Even Iran’s “attack” did fuck all.
In the wider world, however, we saw the disproportionate Israeli response triggering massive backlash among leftists everywhere. Combined with nationalists adding fuel to the anti-Israel fire, we now have the greatest noticing in almost 100 years.
This shows the two different ways to try for 'peace' and how effective they are in reality:
Arguing from morality about understanding each other and sympathising for peoples plight
Result: The West's empathy abused to all hell and you have people saying 'Death to America!' WITHIN AMERICA!
Having a large military stick but organising trade deals for this
Result: the countries would rather have the resources and income so will placate their more hardline crowd with words while providing little to no action to support it as afterwards they can simply pay to make some of the notable figures to put out the fires where needed.
It also helps that in the end, NO ONE wants the Palestinians in their country so they'd prefer to go uncommittidly "oh that's so terrible, should really stop" than offer sanctuary for refugees.
The Abraham accords amounted to a series of bribes to buy the compliance of every anti-Israel state in the Middle East - with the important exception of one: Palestine.
Palestine saw through this, which is why they attacked. They saw that they were being abandoned by their Muslim neighbors, their “allies in god”, so they tried to crystallize everyone’s loyalties via open attack.
The fallout has been very interesting. Surrounding nations have acted big mad, but it mostly seems like a toothless response intended to assuage the anti-Israel majorities within their own countries. Even Iran’s “attack” did fuck all.
In the wider world, however, we saw the disproportionate Israeli response triggering massive backlash among leftists everywhere. Combined with nationalists adding fuel to the anti-Israel fire, we now have the greatest noticing in almost 100 years.
This shows the two different ways to try for 'peace' and how effective they are in reality:
Result: The West's empathy abused to all hell and you have people saying 'Death to America!' WITHIN AMERICA!
Result: the countries would rather have the resources and income so will placate their more hardline crowd with words while providing little to no action to support it as afterwards they can simply pay to make some of the notable figures to put out the fires where needed.
It also helps that in the end, NO ONE wants the Palestinians in their country so they'd prefer to go uncommittidly "oh that's so terrible, should really stop" than offer sanctuary for refugees.