If it was not at all enough for the mess and political turmoil in the Middle East and the Gulf region with Syria, Iraq and the threats looming in Saudi Arabia and of course the continuing instability in Libya and Yemen, after the raising of the flag of Palestine in the United Nations headquarters in New York in the middle of the 70th anniversary in the General Assembly of the organization, Mr Mahmoud Abbas announced that Palestinian Authority was not going to be binded and abiding any longer to the deals reached with Israel in the Oslo Accords in 1993, which clearly was a sign of rebelling against Israel leveraging on the opportunity being in the global scenario at the UN, which lately has been supporting palestinian cause and in some way its statehood, and which could threaten to produce a new and even more deadly intifada by palestinian people and also by extremist organizations like HAMAS and HEZBOLLAH, in a landscape of growing sectarian clashes between Saudi Arabia and Iran whicb adds up more flame to the general situation in the MENA region, the richest and the biggest oil and gas reservoir in the planet.
And right after this, the situation between Israel and Palestine has worsened gradually and little by little drop by drop in Gaza and the West Bank, and with Russia now being an active and open player in the Syrian conflict, having the U.S in retreat, and with radical organizations paving further and broader way to advance their causes in Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria like Hezbollah, HAMAS, Al Qaeda and ISIS in each of the "theaters of war" where the sectarian fault lines are expanding, then the table could be served for a new uprising or "Intifada" of the Palestinian people against an Israel which this time feels a little bit less protected by Washington and also under the threat of a stronger Iran after the signing of the nuclear deal with the U.S and the E.U, but which could be counting on the support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which shares the same contradictions and dilemmas of security as Israel especially vis a vis the White House, which seemingly longer could be counted as the best security ally or umbrella for these countries in the region.
So we have a pretty much more destabilized region where extremist organizations loom, accutely defined by a sectarian clash, a confrontation between monarchies caring for their self interests and to advance their politico-religious agenda and radical and leftist countries, and the longstanding presence of foreign players who definitely have made the MENA their scenario for proxy wars and now there is a concrete chance for an intifada, for which Israel would feel lonelier than ever before in front of a more assertive Palestine.
