Posted on 08/13/2024 8:13:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The overwhelming likelihood is still that Iran and Hezbollah will attack Israel, maybe even as these words go to print. But if they do not, and even if they do, and a hostage deal eventually comes about, they will now be able to take credit instead of the Saudis for ending the regional hostilities.
For several months, the Biden administration had been offering a grand bargain: Israel pauses its war with Hamas for an indefinite period in exchange for a return of the hostages and, eventually also, normalization with the Saudis.
This grand bargain might have seen Israel another half dozen or more additional Arab and Muslim countries normalize with Jerusalem and changed the shape of the region even more than the already highly successful Abraham Accords, which led to normalization between Israel and Arab and Muslim countries in 2020.
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Would this be a seven year deal?
Hopefully on Israel’s terms. There needs to be an unconditional surrender with all hostages returned, dead or alive.
A real world test of Chinese diplomacy. Actually pulling off the rapprochement was a Trumpian level accomplishment.
the fighting will end when there are no more Fakestinian murder gangsters to continue attacking
If we didn’t have a chomo and democrat party that hates America and oil we could pump enough oil for the world and let them both destroy each other.
The overwhelming likelihood is still that Iran and Hezbollah will attack Israel...
s/b
The overwhelming likelihood is still that Iran and Hezbollah will attack Israel again.
...or...
The overwhelming likelihood is still that Iran and Hezbollah will attack Israel some more.
The very notion should be a false dilemma.
Maybe the last remaining most substantive objection would be that included a commitment to a Palestinian state. But Israel committed to a Palestinian state in 1993, and 31 years later, still has not been compelled to follow through on that because at least some of the Palestinians continue to act violently enough against the Jewish state to make their statehood less viable.As I remember it, Clinton and Israel offered Arafat a Palestinan State and he turned it down.
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