Bahrain joins the other Arab Gulf States…
…in normalizing relations with Israel.
You’ll be hearing other countries coming in over a relatively short period of time. And you could have peace in the Middle East.
I think that last sentence is hyperbole, but it’s a hyperbole for which I totally forgive him. These are big developments, even though it’s been clear for a while that, de facto, these states have been getting friendlier to Israel.
Hey, do you think Obama/Biden will take credit, saying that this is really a result of their cozying up to Iran and enabling it, thus forcing the Arab Gulf States to get closer to Israel in response to the threat?
I also believe that much of the Arab world is heartily sick of the Palestinians. Actually, that’s been true of much of the Arab world for a long, long time, and with good reason (see this and this, for example).
The Palestinians are not happy (the article appeared yesterday and is entitled “Palestinians: ‘Our Arab brothers have abandoned us'”):
Palestinians have reacted with outrage and deep disappointment to the Arab League’s refusal to condemn the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The refusal of the Arab League foreign ministers to endorse a Palestinian draft resolution against the Israel-UAE agreement will pave the way for other Arab states to establish relations with Israel, Palestinian officials cautioned.
Indeed – although the refusal was probably the result of other Arab states’ decision to establish relations with Israel rather than the cause.
The “Arab brothers have abandoned the Palestinian issue at a time when the entire world is supporting it,” PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Majdalani said.
Well, not the entire world. But Palestinian propaganda plus anti-Semitism has been so effective in so much of the world that the statement is nearly true. I would say at this point that Europe is more anti-Israel than the Arab Gulf States. And the same is true of the left in the US.
This sums it up, I think:
…Mohannad Aklouk, the Palestinian envoy to the Arab League, wrote, “[The Palestinians] have dignity, martyrs, prisoners and refugee camps of glory, and this is enough for us.”
Some glory. I guess their sorry history of destruction – and it quite prominently includes self-destruction – is what they are clinging to now.
Of course, if Trump is defeated in November, I believe all of this will be reversed and we’ll be back kissing up to Iran.
“I would say at this point that Europe is more anti-Israel than the Arab Gulf States. And the same is true of the left in the US.” – Neo
Fact.
As is your final sentence.
I note that this is at least partially the result of Trump doing something that should have been done 40 years ago or more (from The Times of Israel post): The President “said his administration’s decision to withhold $750 million dollars in annual aid to the Palestinian Authority “is the best way… to bring [the sides] together.”
The other Muslim / Arab states are indeed fed up with the Palestinians and their two-faced hypocritical exploitation of their captive populace.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16486/merchants-palestinian-issue
by Khaled Abu Toameh
September 11, 2020 at 5:00 am
Bullet point summary:
I sound a cautionary note, however: if it ever looks like the US or Israel is weakening, the Muslims will reverse their positions in a heart-beat.
“ Hey, do you think Obama/Biden will take credit, saying that this is really a result of their cozying up to Iran and enabling it, thus forcing the Arab Gulf States to get closer to Israel in response to the threat?…I would say at this point that Europe is more anti-Israel than the Arab Gulf States. And the same is true of the left in the US.”
Yeah, I wish I could bet on the first point. Easy money. Dems do the Other Me Too, incessantly.
As to the latter two, The unity of the Left succouring deranged grievances knows no reality check, only convenient power posturing.
Trump’s leadership brings realism and self-interest in security to the fore. Not simply for the US, but other serious players, too.
Abandoning Leftist Obamunism is hugely clarifying. Huge.
Yes, but dainty Barrie brought together a cop and a college professor
Arab states have been using the Palestinians for a long time, without actually helping them much. People living in the disputed territories could have had peace and productive living at any time they chose to commit to that course instead of terrorism. Perhaps now they may awake to reality, although their culture is now so toxic they may be unable to.
Yes, but dainty Barrie brought together a cop and a college professor
A copy who acted rightly, and a professor who acted leftly… he did protest too much, and Obama who normalized a false premise a la Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter.
Arab states have been using the Palestinians for a long time
And the Palestinian leaders went along to get along, actively colluded with them, and actively worked against them (e.g. Palestinian Spring in Jordan).
” if it ever looks like the US or Israel is weakening, the Muslims will reverse their positions in a heart-beat.” AesopFan
Not only that but since the fundamentalists hold Islam’s theological high-ground, I’m not at all assured that this rapprochement will last. Hopefully it signals a lasting change.
That Damn Trump…who does he think he is…going around his State Dept to make peace in the ME. I’ll bet the deep staters at State minds are in the High Speed Wobbles about now.
I love this bit, “disgraceful merchants of Palestine.”
Like the Al Sharptons et al of this world just Palestinian.
The Palestinians may well hold the record for the longest unbroken chain of betting on the wrong horse. (I include in that “biting the hand what feeds you”, which I believe is a closely-related concept.)
Israel has been willing to support them — financially, economically, socially, and in many other ways — for many decades. Pretty much the only thing that would turn Israelis off from lending a helping hand, would be terrorism. And that’s the one tactic the Palestinians have used consistently, and been utterly unwilling to abandon.
The Palestinians tried a slow-motion coup of Jordan in 1970, and the result was the bloody purge they call Black September. They then tried again to build their state-within-a-state in Lebanon, plunging the “Riviera of the Middle East” into a bloody civil war that it has yet to emerge from.
But the real straw that broke the camel’s back – or began to – in terms of Arab disillusionment with Palestinians was in 1990. That’s when Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in a blatant land and power grab. The entire Arab world was shocked and horrified (enough so that joined George Bush’s effort to push Iraq out)… all except the Palestinians, who inexplicably backed Saddam. As I understand it, the Arab world has never forgotten this.
The newspapers are telling us now that the Arab world may be getting tired of the Palestinians. No, the Arab world is saying it outright, and they’re not mincing words.
And the Palestinians truly have no one to blame but themselves.
There is a very large crack in the idea that the Muslim world is monolithic and that is ages long Arab-Persia hatred. Obama cozied up to Iran and now Trump is snubbing them. Arabs see this as favoring them and are willing to “deal”.
Much gnashing of teeth at The Brookings Institution.
More gnashing of teeth: The Atlantic calls the ending of the Nobel Peace Prize !
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/end-nobel-peace-prize/616300/
Recommended Rx: Anti-psychotic meds for Jeff Goldberg.
It will not be over any time soon.
The toxic Narrative is firmly entrenched in American universities to ensure that the perversion of the next generation.
https://www.meforum.org/61506/anti-israel-nyu-the-gaza-of-greenwich-village
And the Saeb Erekat has now been installed at Harvard to spew his poison.
https://honestreporting.com/harvard-to-welcome-chief-palestinian-rejectionist/
(continued)
…The EU, albeit with some dissenters, is convinced (more than the Palestinians themselves) that a State of Palestine wants to live together with the Zionist Entity and absolutely must be established.
The pope is “on-side”:
https://clarionproject.org/pope-francis-new-encyclical-praises-mahmoud-abbas/
And the U.N….well, ’nuff said.
Oh, and then there’s the Democratic Party.
Still going to be a hard slog.
Neo quotes:
When I hear some pooh-bah pontificating about “dignity,” my first response is to run.
Consider what Hugo Chávez said in his 2008 speech in expelling the US ambassador, in response to Bolivia’s previously expelling the US ambassador. Go To Hell F*** Yank.
[Translations will vary. For example, “yanqui de mierda” is literally translated as “sh** yankee,” not as “f***! yankee.” Ditto “go to hell” might have another translation, but the vulgar intensity of El Finado’s (the deceased) speech is still extant, regardless of the precise translation.Translation is an art, not a science. The above translation is good enough.]
In the same speech El Finado [the deceased] tells us at another link: [my translation]
His 2008 rant is now Ironic in view of 1) the collapse of Venezuela’s oil production and 2) US increase in domestic production rendering imports of Venezuelan oil more and more irrelevant.
I do agree with your maxim, Gringo, but — Just to lighten the mood.
(minute 3:00 for the relevant quote – prizes for all who anticipate the clip correctly.)
https://youtu.be/SlMxXrRCMAI
LeClerc on September 12, 2020 at 9:32 am said:
More gnashing of teeth: The Atlantic calls the ending of the Nobel Peace Prize !
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/end-nobel-peace-prize/616300/
Recommended Rx: Anti-psychotic meds for Jeff Goldberg.
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Well, it’s actually written by Graeme Wood (and I ran out of free articles so didn’t read it), but it reinforces the Left’s dog-in-the-manger mindset: if we can’t have it, no one can have it.
SMH – they are so petty (Obama was a prime example, especially his National Park vendetta during the government shutdown on his watch) — and petty envy allies with evil so readily.
“Thou shalt not covet” used to strike me as a an oddly minor sin to be included in the Big Ten, but now I understand why.
For anyone else not inclined to give the Atlantic clicks:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/09/11/the-atlantic-now-wants-to-cancel-the-nobel-peace-prize-after-trump-receives-nominations-n2576086
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/09/11/how-deep-is-the-tds-now-the-atlantic-wants-to-cancel-the-nobel-peace-prize/
“It’s often been said that folks on the left would try to cancel anything that the president came out in favor of, even if it was peace on earth.”
AesopFan, I last saw Singing in the Rain in the ’70s, so the “dignity” caught me completely by surprise. Guess people have been aware of the “dignity” con for quite some time.
Gringo – it’s always been one of my favorite lines, because it sums up the absurdity of the entire movie business, which “Rain” pokes fun at brilliantly.
We watched it as a family many, many times.
While the Democrats were distracted by impeachment and pandemics, the President calmly ended the wars against Israel that the Left & RINOs have aided and abetted for decades (well, that, or they were just flat out incompetent).
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/breaking-israel-morocco-establish-direct-flights-part-president-trumps-middle-east-normalization-efforts/
I’m not Jewish, but I can appreciate a Dayenu moment when I see it.
The story is short, so take a look at a few comments. Some celebration, some warnings, and some notes about leftist hypocrisy.
AesopFan, Gringo —
Every time I slip or trip and fall on my ass, I pick myself up and say the line “Dignity, always dignity.”
The Palis are NEVER happy. They NEVER miss a chance to miss a chance. They’re always singing “Poor, poor me.”
Hats off to Michal Goodwin, who, simply, SAYS IT ALL:
https://nypost.com/2020/09/12/the-democrats-partisan-damage-goodwin/
H/T Powerline blog