As the announcement of the deal of the century approaches, the Arab world is growing increasingly tense. Widespread rumours about the contents of the proposal have fuelled public outrage across the region.
This is a very old and discredited talking point. There was no mass uprising by the vaunted Arab street against the US Embassy move to Jerusalem or the US recognizing the Golan Heights as being under Israeli rule - notwithstanding the dire warnings from the "experts."
Arabs will pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, but by and large they don't care. They know that the Palestinians have only themselves to blame, and the decade old Fatah-Hamas split has disgusted the Arab world.
The interesting thing about this op-ed, though, is that the threat of the Arab/Muslim street is not directed to the West, as it had been so many times over the past 150 years. It's directed at the Arab regimes themselves who are interested in the Trump/Kushner plan.
What the deal of the century will ultimately do is erase what little legitimacy Arab leaders have left and undermine their corrupt regimes. And just like in 2011, sooner or later, Arab anger will boil over and sweep through the region in yet another wave of uprisings which neither Israel, nor its western and regional allies will be able to control.The idea that Arabs will rise up and topple their regimes is always a possibility. The thought that they will do it in support of Palestinians is sheer fantasy.
Notably, in the wake of Al Jazeera's AJ+ antisemtism scandal, they are still publishing Ramzy Baroud, who is an unapologetic supporter of murdering Jews.