At an increasing rate, swallows are proliferating heralding imminent peace or normalization with Saudi Arabia.
For years, Saudi Arabia was seen as the holy grail when it came to peace agreements. A huge Arab state, rich and central to the Middle East, with which the conclusion of agreements will create a succession of countries with which Israel has good relations, and will almost definitively complete the puzzle of peace that began with agreements with our close neighbors Egypt and Jordan.
The hope for Israeli-Saudi peace has so far encountered an obstacle that has prevented its existence, in the form of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even on the part of the Saudis themselves, who over the years have even proposed peace initiatives conditioned on resolving the conflict with the Palestinians. This served as a tool in the hands of the Israeli left, which placed the center of its existence on "ending the occupation and the concept of two states for two peoples" not only as a moral act, but as the only key to opening the door to peace for the entire Arab world.
Peace with the Palestinians, as is well known, has not yet broken out. And yet, only in recent weeks have senior Israeli officials and US President Biden hinted that an agreement with the Persian Gulf oil giant is more than possible.
If we add to the peace option at the beginning of the Abraham Accords, we get a result that is a resounding knockout to one of the roots of the ideology of the Israeli left, and a total collapse of the war front against the "occupation" and the political processes that have been the basis for election campaigns, demonstrations and activities of Israeli organizations spanning from Peace Now to Breaking the Silence for decades.
In fact, the Israeli left has lost the root from which it derived the most important of its principles, and this understanding has also permeated the current leftist leadership, with the exception of Meretz and the Labor Party. Lapid and Gantz rarely comment on the issue, and at most sprinkle vague slogans. The word occupation has almost become a derogatory word.
The disappearance of the dream of an Israeli and Palestinian wolf and sheep living together is also evident in the protests currently taking place over internal affairs. Its leaders are making great efforts to escape the message of two states for two peoples with all their might.
That is why activists from the Bloc Against the "Occupation" were beaten and expelled by "Brothers in Arms" from one of the demonstrations on Kaplan Street, simply for holding up a sign against "settler terrorism." The concern that reducing the grounds of reasonableness will lead to international prosecution of reserve officers does not relate at all to the nature of the IDF's stay in Judea and Samaria, but to the fear that they will be denied the right to move freely abroad. Shikma Bressler also declared: "The occupation is not the basis for what is happening here, for my worldview" - the speech was attacked on social networks by leftists.
Most of the civilians were satisfied with bereavement and fire as a result of the bloody experiment to find a solution vis-à-vis the Palestinians. An agreement with Saudi Arabia will constitute an official death certificate for an idea that blew its soul at the earliest in Oslo, and at the latest after the disengagement.
The current protests are trying to inject new life into a political camp that has lost its most valuable asset, and which, ironically, of the kind only the Middle East knows how to produce, the real peace – hopefully one will come – will make a killing confession in the fictitious peace that the left has tried to promote for more than two generations.
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