The Palestinian Cause remains powerful on “the Arab street,” UCL Middle East historian Dr. Anne Irfan says.
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00:00Yeah. So, I mean, on the one hand, you've got Prime Minister Netanyahu and President
00:04Trump singing more or less from the same song sheet, but then you've also got all the regional
00:10leaders singing from another song sheet, and they don't seem to be shifting an inch in
00:16terms of what they're saying. I mean, what do you read into the messaging of regional
00:21leaders in the Arab world in particular?
00:24For any Arab leader to be complicit in the loss of further Palestinian land, in further
00:31Palestinian expulsion, transfer, displacement, is really unthinkable. It would be absolutely
00:38– a smear would be an understatement of what it would do to any Arab leader's standing
00:45amongst their own people and amongst the Arab world. We've seen continuously over the years
00:49that the Palestine cause remains very powerful on the Arab street, and the leaders know that
00:54that.