Arab Leaders Said They Are Willing To Ensure Peace In The Middle East But Israel Is The Only One Obstructing It
“30 years of efforts to convince people that peace is possible, this Israeli government killed it,”
A September 2024 speech by Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi has gone viral in recent days for cutting straight to the core of the issue that is obstructing peace from the Middle East.
In the clip, which has received little mainstream media coverage, Safadi told reporters before a UN Security Council meeting that 57 Arab and Muslim countries are willing to immediately guarantee Israel’s security and normalize relations with the country if it ends its occupation of Palestine and allows the emergence of a Palestinian state.
He called out Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for saying that Israel was “surrounded by those who want to destroy it,” saying that Netanyahu is the one “creating that danger because he simply does not want a two-state solution.”
Safadi said that the Arab world wants a peace in which Israel lives in peace and security, accepted, normalized with all Arab countries as long as Israel accepts the two-state solution and ends its occupation of Palestine, but Israeli officials’ narrative is only war.
Safadi proceeded to blast the current Israeli government for the damage it has done to efforts to achieve peace in the region.
“30 years of efforts to convince people that peace is possible, this Israeli government killed it,” he said. “The amount of dehumanization, hatred, bitterness, will take generations to navigate through.”
He said that ultimately the Arab world wants peace and laid out the plan to achieve it, but Israeli officials have no plans beyond the first step which is to destroy Gaza, inflame the West Bank and destroy Lebanon.
“We have a plan. We have no partner for peace in Israel. There is a partner for peace in the Arab world, and that’s why the international community needs to move,” Safadi concluded before walking off.
Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has systematically targeted and killed civilians, journalists and aid workers, killing more than 56,156 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, and injuring more than 132,239 others, with entire families wiped out of the registry.
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