The Arab–Israeli conflict is dead. Today, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia now coordinate openly with Israel, while the old pan-Arab slogans gather dust. Unmistakably, the region has entered a post-Arabist era powered by tech, defense alliances, and a shared fear of Iran—not daydreams about “freeing Palestine.”

The only dispute still alive is the one the Arab world walked away from years ago: the Palestinian arena. And into that void steps the most formidable detainee Israel has held in two decades: Marwan Barghouti. His supporters brand him as a “Palestinian Mandela”. Nonsense.  Mandela rejected violence; Barghouti orchestrated it.  Yet he cannot be compared to Arafat or Abbas. He is neither tainted by corruption nor sidelined by irrelevance, and he retains broad public credibility.

Barghouti is undoubtedly the only Palestinian........

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