The article urgently examines and scrutinizes the idea being circulated among Arab and Islamic leaders, some of whose outcomes have begun to evolve into bilateral defensive and strategic agreements between certain countries.
These agreements collectively aim to achieve security and protect stability in the Arab world and its Islamic neighbors, particularly following the escalation of threats and dangers from Israel, and its display of large-scale, geographically diverse strikes against Arab and Islamic countries.
These attacks have revealed the reality of the existing existential and sovereign risks, which constitute real security threats and are laying the foundations for long-term instability in the region. It will also give Israel the upper hand, imposing its hegemony over the region through force, threats, and violence, disregarding international resolutions and conventions.
This perilous situation has emerged as a result of the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Israel against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and its declared intentions and implementation plans to annex these territories while obstructing the establishment of a Palestinian state. Additionally, the military actions targeting Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar, and Yemen have all occurred under misleading pretexts propagated by Israel.
Therefore, the recent convening of the emergency Arab-Islamic summit, the increased communication between the leaders of the Arab and Islamic world, and the international movement to recognize the Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly constitute essential indicators of the ability of Arabs and Islamic countries to form a political framework that constitutes an incubator for joint action to preserve security and stability.
Notably, in this regard, the Arab and Islamic pressure on the US administration during the meeting with President Trump to halt Israel's aggression and genocide in Gaza and implement the two-state solution is considered one of the potential indicators of such a need for this coalition and its consolidating process. The role of the US, as a major power with significant influence in the region, is crucial in this context.
It would strengthen these countries' ability to confront the existential threats and dangers posed by Israel's expansionist projects and plans, based on aggression and brutal force, and any other party that creates such threats against Arab and Muslim countries.
The need for integration, coordination, mutual support, and diversification of arms sources and Arab and Islamic alliances, such as the signing of a defense agreement by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, is a decisive step that requires strategic, intellectual, and geopolitical support and fortification. The NATO and the EU experience is a successful example that this coalition can follow.
It also involves the formation of an incubator and lever for Palestinian resistance against the occupation until it ends in the territories occupied in 1967 and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
As such, this resistance constitutes a solid and strong Palestinian barrier against Israel's behavior and expansionist plans in the region against many Arab and Muslim countries.
Moreover, strengthening this alliance also requires internal reconciliations that enhance the internal front in these countries, so that society as a whole becomes a cohesive national group. It will support foreign policy, protecting the country and its security, achieving stability, and confronting the existential threats posed by Israel and others.
It also requires mitigating any tension in relations between the alliance countries and containing them, especially with Iran, in light of previous behaviors. It also requires addressing the escalating crises in Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt between national forces and governments, as there is no clear horizon or in-depth dialogue to halt this depletion to date. Consequently, all national strengths must be mobilized to support and sustain this regional alliance, protecting the national security and stability of its countries.
A preliminary reading of such movements and ideas, if successful in the hands of the coalition's leaders, indicates that the geopolitical power and geostrategic role of this coalition will represent a promising shift in the roles of its members and its collective role, on the one hand. It will also create a situation that cannot be overcome in the policies of the international community, especially the major powers, towards the region, except through an understanding with this coalition.
This new limitation of the new coalition includes Western relations with Israel and its unconditional support for it with weapons, as it engages in aggression and genocide.
This step will constitute a significant historical moment in developing the status of the Arab and Islamic world and its influence on international policies, in a way that serves its interests. It also halts Israeli aggression and expansion, its war crimes, and hence prompts its leaders to reconsider their assessments when thinking to attack any country in the coalition or in the Arab and Islamic world, including the Palestinian people.
Some academics and significant arab figures are considering countries that could play a vital role in forming this regional alliance based on these considerations, and to achieve these goals. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Jordan, and Syria are viewed as key players influencing the region, the international community, and the Islamic world.
They represent a state of economic, political, and strategic integration with abundant potential, consolidating the Arab-Islamic front internally and externally. They also represent a state of resistance to penetration and marginalization by major powers, even by aggressive states like Israel.