According to historian Bernard Lewis, “the United Nations failed to act after the Arab states invaded the Land and then treated Jewish and Arab refugees differently, leaving problems that remain today.”

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/partition-or-politicide-the-two-state-solution-and-the-arab-palestinians/2023/02/22/

According to reports in Israeli media, the conversation also focused on the Iranian threat and widening the circle of peace between Israel and other Arab states.

Source: https://forward.com/fast-forward/540481/biden-stresses-democratic-values-in-call-with-netanyahu-on-judicial-overhaul/

And the third element was the US imperialist dreams of winning Arab states to “normalisation” with Israel.

Source: https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/south-african-guerrilla-fighter-ronnie-kasrils-speaks-out-on-palestine/

And the United States, NATO and the moderate Arab states need Israel.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/opinion/israel-palestinians-war-iran.html

“Arab states have put their own cynical realpolitik and diplomatic agendas above basic humanity," said Laila Kiki, executive director of The Syria Campaign, an international advocacy group.

Source: https://www.baytoday.ca/world-news/pariah-no-more-arab-league-reinstates-bashar-assads-syria-6964536

Before going to Israel and Palestine, Bowman had co-sponsored legislation encouraging Arab states to normalize their relations with Israel.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/opinion/israel-democratic-party-jamaal-bowman.html

But we really aren’t in a situation like in 1973, where you had potent Arab states with major military forces on Israel’s borders.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/15/israel-hamas-war-gaza-economy-oil-prices/

Following the cancellation of Syria's suspension of membership in the Arab League and the presence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Arab League summit, Arab states are returning their relations with Damascus to normal gradually.

Source: https://en.mehrnews.com/news/203294/Iraqi-Prime-Minister-heads-to-Syria-after-12-years

Further, Israel’s decision to carry out intense military action in Gaza and the likely shedding of Palestinian blood, has caused several Arab states to retreat from closer relations with Tel Aviv.

Source: https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2023/10/16/un-action-needed-urgently-to-end-israel-hamas-violence/

Hamas—no doubt acting with the knowledge and support of Iran—seeks to derail the widening circle of peace in which Arab states have embraced normalized relations with Israel.

Source: https://jewishjournal.com/news/363597/an-end-to-politics-and-diplomacy-as-usual/

Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei lambasted Arab states for signing the Abraham Accords, accusing them of “treason against the global Islamic community.”

Source: https://triblive.com/opinion/aaron-pilkington-the-israel-hamas-war-no-matter-who-loses-iran-wins/

Israel annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank after the 1967 war against Arab states.

Source: https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-billionaire-calls-palestine-attacker-terrorist

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, was on normalizing relations between Israel and other Arab states before seeking a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Source: https://www.mymcmurray.com/2023/09/26/saudi-delegation-visits-palestinian-territories-as-israel-and-saudi-arabia-eye-normalization/

Many Arab states, however, have remained adamantly opposed to Israel’s right to exist, joined since 1979 by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxy militias, notably Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/why-israel-is-judged-differently/2023/04/23/

Meanwhile, former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has already ruled out the idea that international or forces from Arab states could administer the Gaza Strip.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-hamas-significantly-degraded-combat

Moscow is in contact with all parties, including the Arab states.

Source: https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/russia-calls-on-palestine-and-israel-to-cease-fire-deputy-foreign-minister-413655

One of Netanyahu’s greatest foreign policy triumphs remains Israel’s US-brokered normalization deals in 2020 with four Arab states, including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/03/12/saudi-deal-with-iran-worries-israel-shakes-up-middle-east/

Rather than promoting peace unanimously, the world is divided, Orbán said: Turkic and Arab states, China and African countries want a ceasefire and peace talks, he said.

Source: https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/orban-we-are-closer-than-ever-to-world-war/

Recently, Arab states have been trying to reach consensus on whether to invite Assad to an Arab League summit on May 19 in Riyadh to discuss the pace of normalising ties and on what terms Syria could be allowed back.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/arab-league-readmits-syria-as-relations-with-assad-normalise/article_c5441443-acd7-58e6-8309-9ec0628c8135.html

Schwartz explained that the Arab states, which refused to recognize Israel at that time, saw the refugee issue as a way to keep the conflict alive.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/12/20/unrwa-must-be-dismantled-keeps-fantasy-of-destroying-israel-alive-expert/