Posted on 03/02/2021 6:38:01 PM PST by Theoria
We may be witnessing a major realignment of the Middle East.
I was Googling around the other day for a factoid: how many Israelis had visited the United Arab Emirates since the signing of their normalization agreement, known as the Abraham Accords. Answer: more than 130,000.
Jumping Jehoshaphat, Batman! In the middle of a global pandemic, at least 130,000 Israeli tourists and investors have flown to Dubai and Abu Dhabi since commercial air travel was established in mid-October!
I believed from the start that the openings between Israel and the U.A.E., Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan — forged by Jared Kushner and Donald Trump — could be game-changing. We are still in the early phase, though, and having lived through the shotgun marriage and divorce of Israelis and Lebanese Christians in the 1980s, I will wait a bit before sending wedding gifts.
That caveat aside, something big seems to be stirring. Unlike the peace breakthroughs between Israel and Egypt, Israel and Lebanon’s Christians and Israel and Jordan, which were driven from the top and largely confined there, the openings between Israel and the Gulf States — while initiated from the top to build an alliance against Iran — are now being driven even more from the bottom, by tourists, students and businesses.
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A new Hebrew language school that holds classes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi has been swamped with Emiratis wanting to study in Israel or do business there. Israel’s Mekorot National Water Company just finalized a deal to provide Bahrain with desalination technology for brackish water.
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This simply won’t do. Biden’s Jew hating handlers will see to that something happens to reverse the trend.
From Freidman?!? Pigs flying.
Senile Joe and his anti-Zionists will get the wars back.
As soon as I saw this thread, my thought was that Biden and his handlers will do all they can to screw this up.
They don’t want progress; they don’t want peace; and they don’t want individuals making individual decisions about things.
I haven’t seen that expression ‘Jumpin’ Jehosephat!’ used since it was last uttered by Waldo Weatherbee aka the high school principal in the Archie Comics.
Those two Countries lead the world in COVID vaccination.
Its like the only safe place for them to travel.
Emiratis could make some pretty rich tourists for Israel as well. Find out what they like, while you are there Sabras.
Ping.
He actually credited Kush and Trump. Must have been like a gut punch.
A new Hebrew language school that holds classes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi has been swamped with Emiratis wanting to study in Israel or do business there. Israel’s Mekorot National Water Company just finalized a deal to provide Bahrain with desalination technology for brackish water.
“And obama wept...”
This could. E the beginning of a beautiful alliance.
Ditto that.
Like to see him fly, sans chute.
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