The Role of Iran in Israel-Palestine Conflict
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https://doi.org/10.63290/jhmsr.v2.i1.31Keywords:
Palestine, western domination, pragmatism, peaceful resolution, Iran.Abstract
The role of the Iranian state in the Israeli-Palestinian war, that engages numerous facets, is analyzed with a critical twist in the paper that derives ideological, geopolitical, and strategic outcomes of such a positioning. The conflict became an outlet after the Islamic Revolution, in 1979, whereby anti-Zionism in the form promoted by them had to be emphasized as a way of countering already dominant forces of the west in the Middle East. The Iranian strong backing of the Palestinian groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in particulars, had thus been a key point of the policy as it was expressed in its extensive financial aid, military education, and logistic aid to the groups. The alliance has strengthened the ideological dedication of Iran towards Israel and geopolitical interests in the attempts to frustrate the supremacy of Israel in the region and alliances which may arise through such an alliance. The Iranian conflict postures itself as the Islamic world leader in general and tends to cross-sectarian boundaries to involve the Sunni and Shia affiliations. This has opposed Iran to Sunni states especially Saudi Arabia, raised the regional tension and added more complexity to every effort made to achieve peace, and the Iranian nuclear ambitions and its support of militant proxies. It employs a qualitative approach in which secondary sources are used to discuss the ways in which the policy of Iran demonstrates the ideological prioritization, which is at the same time tied to the strategic pragmatism the booth was supposed to be used to strengthen the position that Iran holds in the Middle East. Although the actions of Iran contribute to strengthening the Palestinian resistance, it also cultivates the situation of political unrest in the region and burdens the hope of peaceful resolution of the conflict. These facts demonstrate that the Iranian intervention into the Israel-Palestine conflict is not the demonstration of the ideological loyalty but the thought-through process of the regional power development, overcoming Western domination, and formation of the dominant position in the Islamic world.
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