Doha Summit Scenarios: Will Arab Leaders Halt Israel’s Crimes?
The extraordinary summit of Arab and Islamic leaders has officially begun in Doha, the capital of Qatar. According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News Agency via Al Jazeera, following Israeli missile attacks on Qatar, Doha appears persistent to make this summit distinct from previous meetings held over recent years in various capitals.
Given the political context and broad popular support behind the attending leaders, several scenarios are shaping up at this meeting. These scenarios could facilitate decisions addressing Israel’s aggression against Qatar, supporting other Arab and Islamic countries, and ending the killings and invasions in Gaza. Key possibilities include:
Suspending normalization agreements and recalling ambassadors
While related countries may have limited capacity regarding a decision to halt normalization and recall ambassadors, adopting such measures amid growing normalization across Arab and Islamic states would significantly impact Israel.Tel Aviv counts on expanding normalization as a key regional strategy.
Severing economic,trade,and cultural ties
This possible decision might involve comprehensive sanctions against Israel along with companies collaborating with it. While not necessarily implying full severance of relations, it would lower their threshold substantially.
If implemented, such measures could escalate into an economic blockade by closing Arab and Islamic crossings to ships heading toward occupied territories or suspending numerous economic agreements established between several Arab-Islamic states and Israel-actions that would seriously affect Israel’s economy.
Pressuring Tel Aviv’s allies
Pursuing new effective tools to pressure tel Aviv’s allies-including the United States-could play a critical role in halting Israeli crimes.
Activating joint Arab-Islamic defense mechanisms
This scenario entails enhancing security cooperation against shared threats by protecting member states’ airspace and territories. It specifically includes countering any unauthorized incursions into any member states’ airspace.
Supporting mediation efforts by Qatar and Egypt
The summit could grant greater authority for oversight roles to Qatar and Egypt regarding negotiations between Hamas movement representatives and Israel. Such empowerment would yield increased political backing for Doha’s and Cairo’s mediation efforts while strengthening these countries’ support for resistance movements.
Ending aggression against Gaza
The declaration issued by this summit cannot omit calls for halting hostilities in Gaza but ideally will incorporate genuine mechanisms alongside concrete decisions aimed at breaking Gaza’s siege.
Arab-Islamic leaders have multiple avenues available for this effort. Iraq’s Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani told Al Jazeera that these nations possess many tools capable of countering Israeli aggression.
These options might include international pressure campaigns targeting cessation of violence 및 famine in Gaza; reopening Rafah crossing; facilitating humanitarian aid access; as well as defining paths toward commencing reconstruction efforts there.
Despite their variety-and relative feasibility-military confrontation with Israel seems least likely according to observers due to lack of precedent or commitment among involved parties.
In any case, expectations from Doha extend beyond issuing traditional statements condemning Israeli actions that historically failed impacting ground realities
