"If we listen to what President Erdogan of Turkey has said, and he's not the first to have said it, but to say that Palestine is a crux to understanding the conflict in the Middle East and Palestine is in fact the main hotspot that triggered many conflicts there," Prof. Liebenberg says.
"In as much as the US is continuously saying that they can keep track of the weapons that they've given the Ukrainians, the truth of the matter is that we simply don't know what has happened to very much small and large weapons that have gone to the Ukraine and some of it could potentially have found its way to the Middle East," he explains.
"The commitment will remain there, but resources have to be redistributed to be able to counter the different groups that are fighting American interests and American foreign policy, as in the case of Israel," Dr. Abaho elaborates.