A year ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the UN General Assembly with a map depicting the "New Middle East".
It presented a vision of regional transformation anchored on the Abraham Accords, through which neighbouring Arab states have been working to normalise relations with Israel.
But instead of a new regional order achieved through diplomacy and trade, the past year has instead witnessed a devastating Israeli campaign of war and genocide.
Israel's year-long offensive on multiple fronts has shattered the region's tentative progress towards peace. The Middle East's relative stability at the start of this decade has been decimated by Israel's genocidal onslaught in Gaza, aerial bombardments in Syria and Yemen, and now the ground invasion of Lebanon.
In 2003, neocon ideologues envisioned Iraq as a democratic beacon that would spread change throughout a new Middle East.
Two decades later, that transformation is happening at the hands of an ethnocratic, extremist settler state, through genocide, invasion and mass expulsion.
Israel has expanded the boundaries of what is both possible and tolerated in regional armed conflicts, through routine violations of international humanitarian law and by testing how far Arab states can be pushed without major escalation.....