Posted on 04/18/2019 3:23:27 PM PDT by rickmichaels
“Israel is a reality, Arabs and Israelis must negotiate their future together.”
When those words appeared on my screen last week, they looked like good advice from a European or American source, the kind of advice that Arabs usually ignore. Instead, they turned out to be from an interview with the deputy head of the Oman journalists association. Oman is a small (population: four million) oil-rich Sultanate in the Arabian Peninsula. And Oman’s foreign minister has remarked that Arab nations must reassure Israel that they do not pose a threat to its existence.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently paid a genial, well-photographed visit to Oman, the first such appearance in years. Is it possible that Arab states are increasingly willing to talk with Israel? This is apparently (as one think-tank speculated recently) “out of concern for threats posed by Iran.”
If the Arab states feel threatened, they are right to be. Iran has been tireless in spreading its influence and its military force into Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Gaza. It exerts endless pressure on Lebanon through its proxy group, Hezbollah, and funds Hamas in Gaza. Hezbollah has been caught attacking Israel, tunnelling into it from southern Lebanon. There’s no telling where it, and Iran, will turn up next.
And Iran, when it acquires nuclear weapons, will be a lot more terrifying.
Tom Gross, probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East, suggested recently that much of the Arab world is already quietly establishing ties with Israel. An example: last month, during the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Qatar, even Hamas-supporting Qatar played the Israeli national anthem and raised its flag when an Israeli won gold. As Gross says, that would have been unthinkable even a year ago.
But what of the Palestinians?
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Sounds nice but even Oman has not made peace. And he can’t deliver peaceful
Behavior by the fakestinians. So the words are both hypocritical and of zero practical value. I say, send him the fakestinian directly and he can try being peaceful with them for as long as he wishes (or, rather, for the very short time until they murder him?
Running out of missile to shoot?
Sunni vs Shia
Iran is Shia. KSA is Sunni
“Tom Gross, probably Europe’s leading observer of the Middle East, suggested recently that much of the Arab world is already quietly establishing ties with Israel.”
It has really been occurring in earnest under the Trump Administration. The more moderate members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Oman and Bahrain) have been pretty vocal in breaking the ice with public statements. Ntanyhu even visited Oman not that long ago.
The Iranian stick and the economic/technological carrots make a strong case for the GCC.
The Palestinians are captives to violent extremist gangs that rule them. They need to be liberated and protected long enough for their civil society to develop diversity.
Maybe some of the “deep thinkers” among the arab world have figured out that hey, if the Israelis can always make our bridges fall and our factories fail (always blame the Israelis when stuff doesn’t work due to no maintenance), maybe they can keep the bridges from falling and the factories working!
Except eastern Saudi...thats Shia
Arabs ready for peace... because... the Turks and the Iranians.
Exactly, it must be time to re-arm.
Next?
It’s also Prophetic in Ezekiel 38:10-13. Sheba & Dedan are the Arabian Kingdoms of today.
10 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. 11 You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. 12 I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.[d]” 13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages[e] will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”’
Don’t believe a word of it. We’re in the end times, and any peace between Arabs and Israel, is a false one.
It makes sense for the anti-Iran Arabs to ally with Israel. But so far the Palis appear to be in the Iran/Syria camp.
PING!
“couldn’t get anything done for fear of alienating the “Arab Street”(remember that little meme?)”
Ah yes, a classic Leftist boogeyman from the grooveyard of forgotten hits.
Hamas and Hezbollah are jointly forming a fighting group along the Golan under the al-Qods banner. They will have a 3 month course and be turned lose with their own knives, rockets and artillery,
Al taqiyaa
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