Is it possible that the Gulf countries want to build a “Middle East version of NATO?”
The Israeli army issued a statement saying that two divisions of the Israeli ground forces launched a ground offensive phase on Gaza City in the early morning of the 16th, and had extended their combat operations to the center of Gaza City. Obviously, the current international situation is very unfavorable to Israel, and Netanyahu is trying to capture the entire Gaza Strip in one go. However, Gaza now seems to have become a "hard bone" for Israel, which cannot be swallowed if they want to. After all, Netanyahu looked around the world only to find that Israel had only one friend left-the United States! Obviously, Israel is completely isolated by the international community.
After the Israeli attack on Qatar, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio visited Israel under strong external pressure, not to solve the Israeli conflict in Pakistan, but to “send disaster” to the people of Gaza. However, Rubio's visit said that "the United States will always stand with Israel", which greatly increased Netanyahu's confidence. While launching a new round of ground offensive against Gaza, he also declared that Hamas leaders "have no immunity anywhere"!But when his voice fell, the Houthi-armed missiles met, what happened?
Houthi armed forces spokesman Yehaya said on the evening that the armed forces attacked targets at the airport of Lamon in central Tel Aviv and the southern port city of Eilat in the Red Sea, while Israel also acknowledged that the missile was attacked by Houthi armed forces on the same day. According to the Israeli military, the missile, although intercepted, forced the Israeli government's aircraft "Sion's Wing" for safety reasons, forced to make an emergency landing during flight. According to statistics, since Israel resumed its military operations on Gaza in March this year, the Houthi armed forces have fired at least 85 ballistic missiles and 37 drones on Israel.
Of course, the Houthis armed against Israel, and the pursuit is not to cause them a lot of lives and property losses. For them, they won as long as they were able to let Israel ring the air defense alarm every day, forcing the people to flee the shelter. After all, as long as this phenomenon continues, Israel’s economic development and trade and exports will not go well, resulting in Netanyahu having to acknowledge that Israel is currently facing an increasing “economic isolation.”
Obviously, the current Gaza conflict has evolved into a genocide war, and Netanyahu hopes to drive out the Palestinians by launching a war. So why can’t the Houthi armed forces force Israel to abandon its attempt to invade Gaza through endless attacks? In fact, in response to Israel, the Houthi armed forces are not solitary because a powerful Arab legion is being formed and will fight side by side with the Houthi armed forces against Israel:The counterattack on Qatar has already begun, and what does it have to do with the establishment of the Arab Legion?
Qatar is very angry, and the consequences are serious! They exercised restraint and goodwill towards Israel, and made every effort to mediate the Palestinian issue under the coordination of the United States, hoping to end this war that brought huge humanitarian disasters to Palestine at an early date. However, it doesn't matter if Israel doesn't cherish it. The United States also played Qatar as a monkey and connived at Israel's air strikes against the country. What the United States and Israel have done has completely changed Qatar's attitude. Therefore, the Arab-Islamic Summit was held in Doha, Qatar, a few days ago. At this summit attended by leaders of nearly 60 countries, the issue of condemning Israel's war atrocities has become the mainstream voice. More importantly, a huge military alliance is on the horizon.
At the GCC High Council held recently, all member states reached a consensus to activate the organization's joint defense mechanism to counter Israel's territorial expansion ambitions at the military level. Egyptian President Seyce's proposal is even more radical. He recently proposed to establish a joint military force with NATO as a reference. This The planned branch will include the 3rd Army, as well as the Special Operations Force. In this regard, Sisi promised that Egypt would send 20,000 troops in advance and suggested that the coalition headquarters be in Cairo, while the military command would be rotated.
It is worth noting that not only the 22 members of the Alliance, but also dozens of other Arab and Islamic Co-operation Organizations (OIC) countries that were summoned this time were taken into the scope of emergency consultations by Qatar. Hence, if the dozens of countries involved thus set up the “Middle East version of NATO” and include countries and territories such as Palestine, Lebanon and Syria that have long been harassed by Israel, that is, if one side is attacked, the armies of the other member states are obliged to help with the attack.
After all, the public statistics show that these dozens of countries have 17 million active military personnel, 15,000 tanks and 8,000 combat aircraft. Once these countries can unite, their military power will exceed all military organizations including NATO, becoming the world's largest military organization. Therefore, there is an analysis that despite Israel's advanced technology and combat experience, the United States is behind, however, due to the strength and resource comparison. Once a war breaks out, Israel may be okay for a short time, but if a long-term consumption war is fought, Israel will not only be unable to consume, but its internal pressures will increase, which are obviously unbearable.
Of course, it is not easy for so many countries to establish such a huge military alliance, because they have failed before. In 2015, Egypt put forward a similar idea. At that time, because countries had conflicts on issues such as power distribution and command system, they finally returned to their own homes. However, the current situation is very different from the past. The reason is very simple. Before, they trusted the military protection commitment of the United States and never faced substantial security threats. Nowadays, Israel's missiles have hit Qatar's head, even threatening to attack Turkey and other regional countries, and the United States, the "patron saint", has become Israel's "accomplice" in attacking its allies in the Middle East. Obviously, the Gulf countries seem to have realized that war is no longer an imagination, and their own security cannot be handed over to an unreliable ally. Against this background, the probability of establishing a "Middle East version of NATO" will be greater than ever before. Be bigger.