Trump’s triumph with UAE-Israel accord has unleashed a ‘preference cascade’ of Middle East peace developments; A dam has broken and our media are desperate to avert our eyes from it.

A dam has broken and our media are desperate to avert our eyes from it. I am stunned at the succession of positive developments that has followed the announcement almost a month ago that the United Arab Emirates is normalizing relations with Israel. Momentum is accelerating toward the long dreamed-of goal of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

I have to pinch myself after writing such a thing to remind myself that decade after decade of strenuous effort has failed, frustrating presidents of both parties and stymieing plan after plan put forth by diplomats and NGOs. Yet, improbable as it may seem to the smart set, Donald Trump, denounced as an imminent threat to world peace by almost all the academic, diplomatic, and journalistic elites, may have triggered the process of reconciling the Arab world to peaceful coexistence with Israel.

Among the good news announced just this week:

The Arab League refused a Palestinian Authority initiative to condemn the AE’s normalization and appears to have pressured the PA into softening its position. The handwriting is on the wall for the PA.
Chad, an African republic with a majority Muslim population, has announced it will establish diplomatic relations with Israel and will consider putting its embassy in Jerusalem.
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have announced that they will allow Israeli airliners to fly over their airspace traveling east toward the Gulf and beyond to Asia. This will cut several hours of flying time off of flights, and vastly enhance the ability of businesses to form new deals and tourists to travel. It makes clear that Saudi Arabia is following the path of the UAE.

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Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the UAE has instructed all hotels to offer kosher menus. In truth, halal food and kosher food are very similar, so if rabbis are brought in to bless the slaughterhouses and food preparation facilities, this can be accomplished at relatively low cost. Nonetheless the symbolic importance is gigantic, as guests will be reminded of normalization every time they see a menu.)
Greece, Cyprus and Israel just signed a historic military cooperation agreement. This is clearly aimed at Turkey, which is, along with Iran, one of the chief opponents of the normalization between Israel and the UAE.
And, in a harbinger of much more to come, South Korea is nearing a free trade agreement with Israel, now that it is clear that its extensive trade ties with the Arab world will not be negatively impacted by deepening ties with Israel. This will be hugely important for the two countries but will also signal enterprises in countries all over the world that they are free to invest and trade with Israel without giving up ties to the Arab economies.

“In truth, halal food and kosher food are very similar, so if rabbis are brought in to bless the slaughterhouses and food preparation facilities, this can be accomplished at relatively low cost.”

Only sort of true. The “rabbi” doesn’t bless the food; he verifies, among other things, that kosher standards were followed throughout. Kosher foods are often halal, but, for example, meat prepared only as halal could not pass muster as kosher, blessing or not.

Many leaders of oil rich Arab countries now realize that with the United States ascending to a position of one of the world’s largest petroleum and natural gas producers, they need to really diversify their economies instead of just relying on energy sales. Also Trump’s efforts to blunt Iranian influence in the region have provided a window of opportunity for these regimes to coalesce and cooperate against the Iranians and the power hungry Turkish President. In this effort they clearly see Israel as an ally.

Support to your statement

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/09/israel-uae-saudi-arabia-us-donald-trump-isaac-herzog-blair.html

Israel-UAE deal could have happened four years ago

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Netanyahu’s move was prompted largely by concern over Hillary Clinton’s presidential run. No one seriously believed that Donald Trump would beat her that year and the Israeli leader was terrified of having to face yet another member of the Clinton family, following his disastrous experience with her husband. He therefore wanted to form a stable centrist coalition before Clinton entered the Oval Office. The politically moderate Herzog was supposed to smooth Netanyahu’s way in Washington. If the byproduct were a diplomatic regional peace initiative and the start of reconciliation with the Sunni axis, all the better.

But... but... DRUMPF!!!

Donald Trump was supposed to be a danger to world peace. Instead he is proving to be an innovator on the world stage, accomplishing things that other Presidents could only have dreamed of, including peace deals, economic deals, trade deals, vast improvements to NATO, efforts to further religious freedom and decriminalize homosexuality in other countries, and more.

And yet, idiots like Pelosi and Biden run around claiming that President Trump "isn't up to the job" and "has no idea what he's doing."

Imagine the benefits to the world that can be achieved with another 4 years of Trump in the White House.

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The Imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca delivered a sermon hinting at normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

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