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?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
So if they agree to peace, do the Israeli's take down their walls & let the Palestinians live with them peacefully??!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA just wait for one of the most insane massacre's to happen in the near future if that happens!
Because ISIS just got waxed showing by the Q’uran that Allah is not ready to destroy the world. The only thing Jihadi really understand is defeat.
We should deliver a lot of it.
I think the richer Arab countries have seen enough of the radical troublemakers.
I see you’ve been watching the Arabs for a long time.
Fantasy piece.
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