The speeches are certainly becoming angrier. Following Israeli airstrikes over neighboring Lebanon this week, a number of leaders from the Middle East protested the toll these had taken on Lebanese civilians, as well as the ever-increasing death toll in Gaza as a result of the almost year-long Israeli military campaign there.

"The attacks of October 7 on Israeli civilians last year were condemned by countries all over the world, including Jordan," Jordan's King Abdullah II said at the United Nations General Assembly this week. "But the unprecedented scale of terror unleashed on Gaza since that day is beyond any justification."

At the same meeting in New York, Qatari leader Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani also spoke about "genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza. "With all that has taken place and continues to take place, it is no longer tenable to speak of Israel's right to defend itself in this context without being complicit in justifying the crime," he argued.

Later a joint statement issued by Egypt, Jordan and Iraq warned that "Israel is steering the entire region into an all-out war."

But will Arab leaders ever do more than just talk about what Israel is doing?

For example, in the early 1970s, oil-producing Arab states imposed an oil embargo on the United States and others to punish them for their support of Israel. In 1973, Syria and Egypt launched attacks on Israel in an attempt to recapture territory Israel had occupied after Israeli-Arab fighting in 1967.

Such steps would be extremely unlikely now, experts say.

"The [Arab leaders] have no leverage really. They've........

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