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| Born of internal Arab despair, UAE deal gives Israel genuine chance of peace |
| 2020-08-18 |
The rest of this opinion piece, is, I think, farther left than I am willing to go, the author clearly unaware that the anti-Bibi movement is not a grassroots uprising but the weaponization of Israel’s branch of Antifa by Israel’s Deep State, payrolled by American Progressives, but the first bit is useful background to current events in the region. [IsraelTimes] Last November, three dozen public figures from around the Arab world gathered in London to launch the Arab Council for Regional Integration — meaning, the integration of Israel into the Middle East. It was the first time in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict that a pan-Arab group had formed for the sole purpose of ending the Arab boycott of Israel. The group included a Lebanese Shiite holy man, a Saudi publisher, a member of the Egyptian parliament.For all the fear of an imperialist Iran, what really motivated them to take the great personal risk of publicly calling for normalization was the Arab world’s existential crisis. The collapse of the Arab spring, the self-devouring of Syria, the destruction of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... and Libya and Iraq — all convinced Council members that the Arab world’s decades-long obsession with Israel was poisoning their own societies with hatred and a conspiracy mindset, undermining their ability to deal with chronic problems. Ending its war against Israel, Council members said, was a prerequisite for the Arab world’s ability to heal itself. |
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