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Vol 1 - issue 70 ELITE

Despite this, the Arab system did not The session concluded with Dr. Ali Galal
stand with the Palestinian cause; some Maouad, who explained the challenges
countries fund the Zionist entity, others researchers face in this context, citing a
are helpless, while the Palestinian people previous experience related to Turkey to

endured for several months. emphasize the difficulty of keeping pace
These developments revealed the Axis of with these changes.
Resistance extending from Iran to The report addresses Turkey’s notable
Hezbollah and Yemen, creating an presence across different axes, pointing to

imbalance in power. This coincided with its political, economic, and military roles
severe strikes against Hezbollah and the in several regional issues such as Syria,
emergence of ISIS in Syria under Lebanon, Sudan, and Palestine, with notes
Name- Major-Year
American-agenda motives (noting that on the potential to focus more on files like
Syria in the past refused to betray Somalia.
Hezbollah or normalize with Israel). He The report highlights the dual image of
mentioned the previously ambiguous Turkey’s roles—positive as a cooperative
Turkish role, which has found strength in actor and negative as a source of threat—

Syria amid increasing Israeli power. We while pointing to possible contradictions
are now during dangerous developments, due to the multiple contributors to the
accompanied by many questions about the report. Dr. Galal reflected on the nature of
Arab system’s stance if a war breaks out this divergence, attributing it to the

between Iran and Israel over the nuclear weakness of the Arab system, the fluidity
issue. Considering these ambiguous Arab of regional interactions, and the differing
roles, settlements appear to be halfway national interests among Arab countries,
measures. alongside the increasing and continuing

debate over Turkey’s role.

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