Ping.
You will see that the Arab countries will oppose this!
"This will be a real test for the new Iraqi government there."
One that I am almost sure they will fail. However, intrestingly there was an article (a feature piece, not hard news) in the Wall Street Journal today about how Iraqis are 'doing weddings differently' in the current unsafe environment. The family of the featured groom are "devout" Christians, the mom's name was something very western sounding, Mary Rose, or something like that.
It made me realize there must be a good many Christians in Iraq, since they even had more than one Church to chose from for the wedding. So maybe there is some cosmopolitanism there and like Turkey the Iraqis will recoginize and deal with Israel.
If we hear the lefties moaning about it, we'll know it's a done deal.
I think it's more important that Iraqis get what they want from their new government than that Israel finds a "partner for peace" or whatever. When the Iraqis want to establish relations with Israel, they can. Until then, the Israelis should be cool.
Once they get control of idiots like AlSadr and the Fallujah scum, and they show a little impatience with the violence, they will be a bit more free to make a decision like that, with regard to their own population.
Of course, this is an interim government, and they may feel the need to wait until elections.
Don't get me wrong, I wish they would do it today, but there are a lot of mouthbreathers running around who could make things very difficult.
Hopefully the Iraqis will politely decline this offer until it's established whether or not Israel is covertly assisting the Kurds to keep the country destabilized.