Palestinian writer and journalist Ibrahim Hamami said that for 5 decades, especially since the visit of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to it in 1977 and then the signing of the Camp David Accords two years later, Israel has been seeking Arab popular normalization, but it did not obtain it.
In statements to today's episode, February 21, of the "The Opposite Direction" program, Hamami confirmed that all of Israel's cultural, economic, and political attempts to penetrate the Egyptian people had failed, and the same thing was repeated with the Jordanian people, in which the authorities signed a peace agreement with Israel nearly 30 years ago.
According to Hamami, Israel has realized that normalization with the Arab peoples is impossible, considering that what happened in the World Cup hosted by Qatar in terms of Arab rejection of the Israeli media presence is the best evidence of the position of all Arab peoples rejecting the Israeli presence on Palestinian soil.
Based on this realization, Hamami said that Israel is no longer looking for participation and cooperation with the Arabs, but rather wants normalization with their governments that guarantees dominance and control over their capabilities, and wants to impose normalization on the Arab peoples by force and coercion, and therefore it proceeded to sign peace agreements with many governments. Arabia is indifferent to the rejectionist attitudes of its people.
The Palestinian writer said that the deterioration of the conditions of the Arab countries that signed peace and normalization agreements with Israel decades ago reinforces the conviction of the Arab peoples who reject peace with Israel, and concluded by saying that normalization with Israel in the Arab world is officially a failure and is popularly rejected.
However, the Syrian writer and media figure Thaer Al-Nashif adopted a different point of view, stressing that the countries that signed peace with Israel decades ago - such as Egypt and Jordan - reaped great economic, political and military benefits, and that the conditions of their peoples have improved significantly compared to the peoples of other Arab countries that reject peace with Israel. .
In this regard, Al-Nashif referred to the economic and military aid and investment support that rained down on Egypt from the United States and the Western world after the Camp David Accords. He also talked about the gas and water agreements that Jordan obtained from Israel after signing the peace agreement with it.
Al-Nashif denounced the refusal of "some Arabs" to normalize relations with Israel, while the Palestinians themselves in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and inside the Green Line deal and print with the Israelis and exchange their currency, and some of them hold Israeli passports.
The Syrian journalist compared the income of the citizen in these two countries with the income of the citizens of some Arab countries that "brag" about the slogans of resistance and rejected normalization.
However, Hammami responded to Al-Nashif's allegations, stressing the deterioration of the situation in Egypt since its signing of the Camp David Accords, and stressed that Egypt's conditions before the agreement were compared to the conditions of Malaysia and Turkey, and he asked about the similarity between its situation and the situation of these two countries now, and said that Egypt has become a debtor and economically collapsed and is about to announce Its bankruptcy, just as the situation in Jordan has not changed for the better after peace with Israel - according to Hamami - but the opposite is true.
Hammami refused to justify Arab normalization with Israel by Palestinian dealing with it, likening the situation of the Palestinians in the interior, the West Bank, or the Gaza Strip to that of a prisoner who is forced to deal with his jailer on a daily basis, as he has no choice.
While Al-Nashif talked about military and investment interests that the UAE will obtain from normalization and sovereign interests that Sudan and Morocco will obtain, Hammami said that Israel strongly opposed the UAE's acquisition of the F-35 military aircraft, and its condition for the UAE's acquisition of it was to maintain Israel's military superiority.
As for Sudan, he said that despite the passage of 3 years since he announced normalization with Israel, none of the promises given to him have not been fulfilled, as he is still suffering from a state of political or economic instability and his name is still on the lists of terrorism.
And he considered that the situation is not better with Morocco, which printed with Israel in the hope that the Western world will recognize the Moroccanness of the Sahara, but this has not been achieved until now.