A demonstrator holds a poster depicting Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as during a protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza in Paris on 6 September, 2025<\/p>\n
efore he set off on a suicide mission to shoot<\/a> Israeli soldiers on the Allenby Bridge, the main crossing between Israel<\/a> and Jordan<\/a>, Abdul-Muttalib al-Qaisi wrote a will<\/a>.<\/p>\n In it he said: “Oh sons of my Umma, for how long will we stay silent about the ones that occupy the lands, will we stay silent until it reaches our land and violates its sanctities?”<\/p>\n Al-Qaisi, and before him Mahir al-Jazi<\/a>, another Jordanian who attacked Israeli forces at the border crossing earlier this month, are not Palestinians. They are from the East Bank.<\/p>\n His message was to “the honourable free people everywhere and especially our brothers in the Arab clans in Al-Sham: Jordan, Palestine<\/a>,\u00a0Syria<\/a>, and Lebanon<\/a>.”<\/p>\n And it was this: what is happening in Gaza will be repeated in Arab countries. Our silence is complicity. Do nothing and Greater Israel will come to us.<\/p>\n If this message represents, as I believe it does, a mood that extends far beyond the outskirts of Amman where it was written, then Israel is making a misjudgement of historic proportions.<\/p>\n The continuous rhetoric<\/a> from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich<\/a>, his finance minister and de facto pro-consul of the occupied West Bank, that Israel will be the only state west of the river Jordan is attracting an audience and creating alarm far beyond the borders of Palestine.<\/p>\n The threat Israel poses to the region is irrespective of alliances, politics, tribal identity or religion.<\/p>\n Nearly two years of war have seen parts of Lebanon as well as Gaza devastated, southern Syria occupied<\/a>, and Israeli warplanes have killed<\/a> Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi, Yemen\u2019s prime minister, and knocked out<\/a> Iran<\/a>\u2019s top military leadership.<\/p>\n Israel is not only becoming an existential danger to the Palestinians but to all states of the region.<\/p>\n Try to negotiate with Israel, and its warplanes will target your negotiating teams, as they have done now twice, when they attacked Iran<\/a> before talks were due to take place<\/a> in Oman<\/a>, and then when they attacked<\/a> the Hamas negotiating team in Doha.<\/p>\n Drunk with power, or so desperate to cling onto it, that keeping the war going is his only option, Netanyahu thinks he can impose Israel\u2019s new borders on the region by force.<\/p>\n Israel will never again get a more permissive US <\/a>president than it has now in Donald Trump. He has already allowed it to annex<\/a> the occupied Golan Heights<\/a>, has recognised Jerusalem as the undivided capital of \u201cthe Jewish State\u201d, and is now allowing Israel to raise Gaza City to the ground.<\/p>\n Nor will it ever again get a US administration so dominated <\/a>by Christian fundamentalists.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking in a tunnel dug under Palestinian homes of Silwan<\/a>\u00a0in occupied East Jerusalem, Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Tel Aviv, called Jerusalem the “undivided, undisputable, indigenous capital” of the Jews “from eternity”.<\/p>\nIsrael: The existential danger\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n