Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal. Those military ties were thrown into crisis after Israel’s September airstrike in Qatar, but could now play a key role in overseeing the nascent ceasefire in Gaza.

Over the past three years, facilitated by the United States, senior military officials from Israel and six Arab countries came together for planning meetings in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Qatar.

Qatar, whose capital was struck on Sept. 9 by Israeli missiles targeting Hamas leaders, was one of the countries that had quietly strengthened ties with the Israeli military. In May 2024. A planning document for the event, written two days before it was set to begin, shows that the Israeli delegation was scheduled to fly directly to the air base, circumventing Qatar’s civilian points of entry that could have risked public exposure.

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
    819·
    23 hours ago

    All those leaders saw what happened when Palestinian refugees entered their countries previously. They are also slowly becoming less theistic and more secular – less immediate about getting their Reward in the Afterlife, and a little more concerned with the real world

    • Adb@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      203·
      22 hours ago

      Not sure which planet you are living on but in the real world there’s over a couple million Palestinian refugees living in Arab countries and with the exception of Lebanon have not caused significant problems in the last 50 years.

      Also the Arab world and it’s leaders was much more supportive of Palestinians and anti-Israeli in the heyday of Arab secularism, not that I think that religion, theism and/or secularism had much to do with it.

      • Threeme2189@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        14 hours ago

        The Six-Day War of 1967 began when, in response to Arab neighbors’ mobilization for war, Israel attacked and destroyed Egypt’s and Syria’s air forces. Israel also defeated Jordanian attacks. The war ended with Israel in control of the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and Jerusalem.

        So even when Israel goes on the counter offensive so as to not be obliterated by its neighbors, it’s the one being accused of war crimes. The fuck?

        • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          8 hours ago

          The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him. - Former prime minister Menachem Begin

          What next you will tell me that illegal settlements are also part of israel defending itself?

        • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          13 hours ago

          Somehow every time they have to “defend” themselves, Israel claims more land that wasn’t theirs. That and all of the blatantly obvious war crimes, many of which they boast about, is why they’re accused of war crimes.

          Some people are defending the new Nazis and think they should be able to murder neighbors with impunity. The fuck?

            • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              8 hours ago

              When somone win a war and take someone elsr land. Thst land bevome occupied land eith the occupied right to resist including armed resistance

        • Lysol@lemmy.worldEnglish
          44·
          14 hours ago

          It’s always black and white and clear who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy, right?

          Sad people can’t think a nation can be the lesser evil in one war and the greater evil in another war…

          • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            8 hours ago

            Israel is the occupier , palestine is the occupied it . Occupation amd settler colonialism is alwayd white and black. Indigenous tribes during war used to do terrible things to each other like canibalism and they also attacked non armed settlers are you going to tell me that it is was not black and white just the most evil and thr lesser evil