The choice of "attention" was not a passing entry in the speech; the King linked it to how the international community deals with protracted conflicts, explaining that some crises receive sustained diplomatic effort, while others recede to the margins of the agenda as the interests of public opinion and international media shift. At the forefront of these crises is the behavior of the extremist Netanyahu government in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where His Majesty considered that what is happening cannot be reduced to temporary military measures, but rather an attempt to impose a new reality on the ground and erase the Palestinian presence. The speech focused on settlement expansion, land confiscation, violence against Palestinians, and displacement. The King provided an interpretation that these developments are part of a trajectory aimed at making the establishment of a viable Palestinian state more difficult. Among the crises that the international community turns a blind eye to and receives no attention is the crisis of Israeli expansion in Syria and the repeated attacks on towns and adjacent areas. His Majesty also presented a set of international and humanitarian crises that the international community no longer pays equal attention to, primarily economic inequality, food insecurity, and climate change, as challenges that did not appear suddenly, but were preceded by warnings that were not responded to sufficiently.
The King's focus on the fact that declining international interest, or the lack of sustained interest, can allow crises to transform from temporary situations into permanent realities was the most prominent feature that made this year's speech different in its structure. His Majesty did not merely address crises as separate files, but rather the necessity of linking them to the issue of the international community's biased attention.