[Red Badger]

They know he’s a crook....................

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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Palestinians were never particularly important to the Arab world other than as a weapon to be used against Israel. Witness the refusal of most nations other than Jordan to grant citizenship. And their expulsion from Kuwait and Iraq. With the rise of an Iranian/terror threat they're no longer of any benefit.

[Mr. K]

Great! Maybe they are getting tired of fighting each other and the rest of the world.

[Mr. K]

There was never a state called “Palestine” to be liberated.

There was a region where Syria stuck the people even they didn’t want to deal with...

[faithhopecharity]

Abbas is a big time liar and thief (and mass murderer, if anyone in the media cares).
But it is the entire Fakestinian bullsheit script, Big Lie story that’s irrelevant. While their fellow Muslims tried for many years to help them, the basic problem of their continued Occupation of Israeli lands needs to be resolved. The money that’s been given them has been poured down a sewer, wasted on a false and ignoble “cause.” The Muslim countries are not stupid, they realize they’ve been taken advantage of (ripped off) for nothing. Their Korans instruct them that their god has given the Jewish Promised Land to the Jewish People, not to PLO, Hamas, Hezballah, or any of the other Fakestinians. Supporting and funding the Fakestinians goes directly against Allah’s express instructions for the land of Israel. Sincere Muslims don’t want to spent an eternity suffering in Jahannam (Hell). They’re cutting the Fakestinians loose. (Some of them still mouth “support for the cause’ but face-saving and of little avail.)

[colorado tanker]

The Arab states are tired of supporting what is a racket. The Palis don't want to be a nation state with all the scrutiny and responsibility that comes with it. They want to keep up the myth of the "occupation" and collect all the foreign aid that is sent their way while the leadership takes their cut and gets rich.

That has been apparent since 2000, when Clinton brokered deal that got the Palis 95%+ of the West Bank and Gaza, but Arafart turned it down and went back to war. And got even richer.

[BeauBo]

“a series of normalization deals with Israel, with Qatar, Sudan and others potentially on the way.”

Qatar?

Excuse me, but that would have huge implications for the support they give to the Muslim Brotherhood, and its local affiliate, Hamas.

That would bring Qatar in from the cold, and back into the fold with the other Gulf Cooperation Council countries - and mark a Strategic success for the Trump Administration’s drive to cut off ideological and financial support for islamist terrorist movements.

Qatar, and/or Saudi Arabia, would be some truly seismic shifts in the region.

Cork-popping time.