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Will the Gaza war end on Saudi Arabia's or Iran's terms? - analysis
jpost ^ | 08/13/2024 | YONAH JEREMY BOB

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Government; Hamas; Hezbollah; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abrahamaccords; gaza; hamas; hezbollah; iran; iraq; israel; jerusalemcompost; lebanon; nonsense; palestinians; rop; saudiarabia; syria; war; waronterror
I guess time will tell
1 posted on 08/13/2024 8:13:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Would this be a seven year deal?


2 posted on 08/13/2024 8:14:36 AM PDT by Yulee
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hopefully on Israel’s terms. There needs to be an unconditional surrender with all hostages returned, dead or alive.


3 posted on 08/13/2024 8:20:10 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A real world test of Chinese diplomacy. Actually pulling off the rapprochement was a Trumpian level accomplishment.


4 posted on 08/13/2024 8:20:12 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

the fighting will end when there are no more Fakestinian murder gangsters to continue attacking


5 posted on 08/13/2024 8:24:35 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


6 posted on 08/13/2024 8:47:27 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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.

7 posted on 08/13/2024 8:58:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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The very notion should be a false dilemma.


8 posted on 08/13/2024 9:51:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Yulee
Some of the best scholars say that our Lord died in April of 33AD. We are approaching a 2000 year anniversary of that event.

After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
Hosea 6:2

9 posted on 08/13/2024 9:52:43 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
10 posted on 08/13/2024 10:50:30 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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