marwan because that is a line that has been repeated throughout the course of these introductions the egyptian president there saying he supports a palestinian state under 1967 borders also heard from several others saying they want say they support the palestinian state with these jerusalem as its capital the timing of this of course is rather interesting given we are hearing these rumors of the deal of the century and of course the americans trying to. lay the groundwork for this how far forward are we on that. excellent question and of course everyone needs to pay lip service as if everyone needs to check the box because since the very beginning of the arab summit the question of palestine has been hanging over their heads from 46 on wards and over $43.00 out of summits the question of palestine have been central and have been sunder because the accident failed to resolve it and hence in each and every arab summit it's mentioned as biased by the number one cause for the arab world and if the remains to be 70 years later because the out aboard is an able to solve this issue now and

bashara marwan that the prospect of these summits leading to any resolution of the gulf crisis is very premature obviously the blockade is still in place but what is the interaction likely to be like between cateye and its neighbors. you know it remains to be seen but the fact that qatar accepted this invitation not the previous ones means that there's something is going on for it to actually take the step go to saudi arabia the block of the country in the hope i would think of having some biological meetings whereby some 1st steps are taken by especially saudi arabia to lift the aerial blockade and to start taking some steps in order to pave the way towards more positive atmosphere this is especially the case because quote that understands as everyone else does that after 2 years of the blockade it basically failed and to continue it would be a sign of insanity and hence saudi arabia is basically you know concluding that maybe it is time to at least deescalate with a partner within the g.c.c. and that is good. but so i mean one thing i suppose we haven't seen despite cancer building r

communique ogress reso picking spirit here marwan but there has been it's been very delicately craft seeds and there has been condemnation of the the season the attacks on the the society pipeline and the attacks carried out by the duties. and so on it has been a it has been quite a mission to draw this together with the has it not because unity is not something that we have seen in recent years from the g.c.c. . more certainly not the last 2 years and certainly not after the reckless policies of the crown prince in terms of the launching the very particular war in yemen and lunching go or many fact checking a crisis with its neighbor cutter in addition the whole number of others whether it's getting a job notice closing. media outlets or you know making enmity with former allies and the likes including turkey and so on so forth but now we don't know if this is all coming to an end or not or this is going to be continue on that the title of more of the same a clearly the arab countries have come together and express their worry about national security about stability and so on and so

bashara is al-jazeera senior political analyst and joins us live now from london marwan let's talk 1st about qatar's involvement in these saudi conferences how significant is it that the qatari prime minister's been invited and what role is qatar like it's a play. you know it's significant this is the 2nd time they have been invited to accept at this time. and clearly there is something positive in there but of course it remains to be seen after tomorrow night if there are by that the relations about it that are all meetings going on on the sidelines and the bloc of the country has decided to take some positive steps towards cutter because after all they are the ones will manufacture the crisis and for the life of me 2 years later i still can't figure out why would be why would someone take such a short sighted step against apartheid not our knowledge i it within the gulf region when all of these crises are escalating in the region be that as it may it's important for the gulf regional council in particular because you know this is a very small cohesive. regional council that's actuall

demands to end the crisis qatar's leaders have always strongly denied the accusations let's bring in marwan bashar is al-jazeera senior political analyst and joins us live now from london model and so we have these 3 big meetings in 3 days in saudi arabia involving the oh i see the g.c.c. and the arab league what are they trying to achieve what we expect from it well look there are no i mean there are world is living.

bashar joins me now to discuss this and 1st of all marwan how how important is the attendance of the country premiere at the summit in mecca it's an important step there's no doubt after 2 years apart alice's. clearly the 4 blockading countries have run out of ammunition. they've come to a dead end qatar continues to thrive in and so on so forth despite the blockade and the invitation this is a 2nd invitation to qatar to attend really is a sign that perhaps saudi arabia like partners might be interested in more of our normal relations with gata i think what we would need to pay attention to is whether on the sideline of those summits would be bilateral meetings but that's what the see i can say and of course we have seen the recent tensions between tehran and washington that is likely to take center stage and of course recent accusations of attacks on saudi assets it all brings with it this risk of an escalation how are gulf states then reacting to these recent tensions well look oman and qatar have been trying to much more mediate or at least moderate the both the positions of riyad

well maran bashar is al jazeera senior political analyst he joins us now live from london marwan sightseer rapier is clearly hoping to put on a united front faced with the threats of iran highlight they'd see achieve this given the tensions that we see between those who are gathers and 7 balls right now . i think riyadh will get some limited support solidarity against any attack against the kingdom because. all our regimes certainly would not like to see a fall or a country attack by iran or by any other nation. but i think that i think the solidarity and the support will be limited to saudi arabia defending its own interests it staggers its commerce and so on and so forth but when it comes to the escalation against iran i think we won't see the kind of consensus riyadh is hoping for so there will be. a show of unity if you will among the arab leaders but it won't be sufficient in order to contain iran in order to contain the united states or to contain further escalation for the time being that requires a different kind of a dialogue one between the arab world united and iran on the other

and bashara al-jazeera senior political analyst who's been listening in to this live from london marwan what do you make of the statements there from mahmoud abbas. well it's certainly very clear and direct. and i'm sure it put some of those in attendance at an ease especially they can come up by a rain that is hosting the 1st economic war ship or for the deal of the century i think what's interesting is that one with a bus did not just project his own personal sentiment on the issue he basically recalled the arab league resolutions both from the tunisia earned busy this saudi summit of the last 2 years and their position on israeli an exhibition zz of jerusalem on the question of palestine so basically he appealed busy to the arab leaders own commitment towards palestine and his rejection of the idea of money for peace underlining that it has to be land for peace so very clear words and very direct appeal from the palestinian president to the arab leaders that i'm sure in the heart of hearts he understands that there's a certain creeping cynicism on their part to play a nice with the u

well joining me now is marwan he's from the arab center for research and policy studies here in doha i want to we're clearly seeing a dangerous escalation of attacks from both sides in this conflict let's just for a second why has this happened and so quickly i think. once there is an ease to abide by the latest cease fire agreement you know in late march there was the fighting another round of fighting in fact between hamas and a dark time binyamin netanyahu before days or early election was actually trying to convince hamas to scale down rocket firing of rockets inside is that is so he in fact agreed to ease the blockade on gaza. he agreed to expand for example the fishing zone off the course of also increase the flow electricity to. the. majors but after the elections actually there is that is the just ignored all that so that they were last seen as are trying in fact now to put some brush on there is that at least in order to force them to abide by the cease fire agreement really prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he will keep up the airstrikes on the hamas and the armed grou

he's the head of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies here in doha marwan thanks for coming in thank you what does this say about the fragility of the mood music across this region just now it's says a lot in fact. because such an incident and this to this tension between the united states and iran a choice that anything can happen any time at this particular region but let me 1st of all see why this incident is really important and its importance actually is . the arrived from the importance of the board which airport is the united arab emirates mean all the shipment ports in other areas for the past few years actually has been trying to morph it's always shipment from inside the home. to the open sea so the established by applying from the capture an oil field in abu dhabi to who juggle like 350 kilometers long and the. objective of that but for the construction of the oil. pipeline is to. decrease the dependence on the state of hormones in case of getting blocked for some reason 1500000. is exported from the port. when this incident actually takes place

us about cats are and what qatar's involvement is in these in these three meetings in saudi arabia marwan. well look very cvs invitation once and twice and this time they decided to attend it's an important beginning it's an important step towards perhaps some sort of reconciliation of sort but certainly it's important because there is a gulf summit and qatar is an important member of that regional council called the you know the gulf the gulf council and it's important to attend because they were invited and because apparently so the arabia and it's such a light countries the united arab emirates and bahrain have basically run out of ammunition if you will and certainly after two years of stalemate they're poor it gets qatar has basically failed and now everyone is trying to. see if there are new scenarios new options to. explore. i think the three summits specially the arab and gulf summit stick in place there i think it's important that in and to see what if things go amala let's talk about iran because iran will undoubtedly be front and center in all these discussions in those three b

positive step on the longer road the worst local solution within the gulf that's even better and marwan in terms of the broader just takes him in the blockade on cats are has thrown the gulf arab states into complete disarray as you said and these meetings in saudi arabia are meant to find some kind of consensus on iran so how do you see this playing out in terms of unity and consensus. there is no consensus within the gulf region there is no consensus within the out of world or of a muslim world and certainly there isn't a consensus. to stand behind saudi arabia's escalation against iran there could be some eye consensus for the escalation and for a dialogue start whereby tensions would be. you know controlled or contained if you will and where other issues other hot issues like the war in yemen and syria and libya would also be contain all of these crises saudi arabia has been playing busy an active role over the last 3 years with the reckless policies of the inexperienced crown prince mohammed and so none we've seen saudi arabia lose the leverage we've seen so did it become hostage t

we can bring in now al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashar is samoan how significant is it that the cattery pm is going to be attending this event it's pretty significant after 2 years of paralysis clearly the blockage the country led by saudi arabia have run out of ammunition become too i did lock the sanctions and the blockade are not working and hence. extending a hand of some sort for the time being it's just all of this is just the beginning of something perhaps a 1st step an important step whether there will be bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit between the qatari prime minister and his. golf. partners remains to be seen if there would be then i think definitely there is progress going on between them. clearly iran is going to be one of the key issues going to be discussed at this curacy conference is that i mean you see that among the. arab nations about how to deal with that if there isn't i mean it's very very simple one just can go around the room as they were say go on the map and you can see from lebanon to syria to iraq probably will not take the

thank you very much indeed let's get more analysis from marwan bashar al jazeera a senior political analyst he's been listening in to see those opening remarks and joins us now live from london martin let's let's talk about katter us involvement in this in these conferences we saw the prime minister arriving we saw about handshake albeit briefly both hit this is so significant that cats on a set the prime minister to attend. it is significant and i think the they end up sending him this time or are not in previous times when they were invited because perhaps there is something in there perhaps on the sidelines of this summit something. well come up we will see. hopefully saudi arabia has learnt from the last 2 years that there is no point of this crisis that it manufactured along with the united arab emirates and that according to every. agency or capital including washington london and paris this has been manufactured a crisis totally and utterly fabricated by abu dhabi and riyadh against their partner in the g.c.c. 3 years later qatar continues to prosper but the blockade continues and i

well joining me now is marwan a couple and he's from the arab center for research and policy studies here in doha and. we're clearly seeing a dangerous escalation of attacks from both sides now in this conflict let's just throw it back a bit i mean why is this happening and so quickly well i think there is some unfinished business that is trying to finish because if you remember. a few weeks ago. like before days the elections last month there was like our end of another round of exchange for an exchange between the israelis and the palestinians in and guess what a dark time. he was under pressure because of the elections he did not want to the sort of exclusion that might have been back to. the election so i think now he feels like more free better house in order to. on. in so i can believe that is that is their main issue let's stay with netanyahu for a second because he says he will keep up the airstrikes on hamas and the various armed groups like islamic jihad i mean how important is it to his domestic audience that he appears to be tough on security even as he attempts to form a

market that's be an interesting development moving forward the next 48 hours just a final thought marwan what about the so-called deal of the century that supposed to bring peace or not i'm between the israelis and the palestinians we know that jordan's king abdullah has been talking what's he been saying he's very very upset he's going to get upset for the last 2 years and i was very hard to see a king so upset for so long and certainly he has been marginalized by the throat by mr from the outset and he thinks the. sort called the deal of the century is made him so much and so many ways at the expense of jordan a sixpence of his own regime and he thinks he's not getting compensated for various things including having so many palestinian refugees in jordan i think the king is not brought into the loop he doesn't know what's going on he hasn't seen the deal of the century he's been ignored by the top administration and he does think in the absence of a palestinian state that he think is a must as a solution to the arab israeli conflict he think jordan might be the one to pay the price for

and islamic jihad all right to natasha going to get on the tunnel thank you well joining me now is marwan come on he's from the arab center for research and policy studies here in doha so witnessing a dangerous escalation of touch on both sides now twenty people killed from both sides why has this happened now and so quickly. i think it's happening now because the palestinians hamas and other factions would want very much to actually is likely to abide by the cease fire agreement which was detached between the two sides in late march. like six seven weeks ago before there is likely elections at that time there is that it is the agreed actually to expand or give some concessions to the palestinians in order to ease the blockade. let's remind everybody that there is a blockade on gaza since two thousand and seven since hamas took over in two thousand and seven and that blockade actually was imposed by those at least and also by the egyptians and the objective of the blockade actually is to bring down the hammer government in gaza so what house is really after right now is to force that is t

that the qatari prime minister will be attending and what role is cats are expected to play here marwan. well look i think the importance here would be in the gulf regional council because that's the cohesive. tight. organization that basically have these 6 gulf countries that could have or should have been working together qatar is an important member of that council unfortunately saudi arabia but allies that by manufacturing the crisis with cut off 2 years ago it's bet that if you would be able to isolate cut within the council and the region has backfired certainly kuwait and all man would not join in it's basically split the council and now the invocation of the prime minister of qatar night begin as a 1st step to mend fences with its blockading nations and perhaps if we hear today or tomorrow about lifting the blockade at least the aerial blockade of qatar that means we have entered a new logic and perhaps more steps forward towards some sort of reconciliation where qatar can once again play the important role it teach to play in the gulf regional council along its partners among t

demands to end the crisis qatar's leaders have always strongly denied the accusations let's bring in marwan bashar is al-jazeera senior political analyst and joins us live now from london model and so we have these 3 big meetings in 3 days in saudi arabia involving the oh i see the g.c.c. and the arab league what are they trying to achieve what we expect from it. well look there are and i mean they're out of world is living a nightmare probably not seen in generations the continuing and even escalating war in libya and in yemen in syria the upheavals and the paralysis. in sudan and always your ear of the crisis the crisis in the god of the crisis the iran saudi crisis is just. quite problematic everywhere and on the agenda there is or there should be all these hot issues that the arab world is trying to tackle all of course in the addition to under development poverty inequality put it u.k. shouldn't poor health no access to this and that and other things so the arab world is living in a quite a nightmare and we have 3 summits that hopefully would be able to tackle any number of these impor