Netanyahu is on a mission to seize the Middle East. Will anyone stop him?

The Middle East simply cannot sit back and watch Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza happen, Middle East Eye's editor-in-chief David Hearst argues. 

Israel's 22 month genocide in the enclave is just one part of a bigger "collective journey" that transcends Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rule, Hearst says. It is part of an effort to expand Israel's existing borders across the biblical Land of Israel. 

Hearst writes that as Israeli forces have vanquished each neighbour in turn - first Gaza, then Lebanon, then Iran, and now Syria too - and as Israeli forces occupy Gaza, outposts in Lebanon and a substantial area of southern Syria, maps have begun to re-emerge laying claim to areas far beyond the lines where their conquering forces have stopped."

Israel’s neighbours are asleep to the threat they face. This is not a threat that can be negotiated away - nor is it a threat that Washington will do anything to stop, Hearst adds. 

Only a regional security pact, enforced by modern armies coming to each other’s aid, will stop Israel’s expansion and protect the young nation states of the Middle East. They should wake up, and soon, he argues. 

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