No sooner has the Arab-Israel Spring started to
blossom than the Leftists are up in arms. Gulf capitals now formalizing
relations with Jerusalem are, they complain, ruled by non-democratic bad
guys. Exhibit a: Bahrain, where a Sunni minority, backed by Saudi
Arabia, rules over restive Shiite population.
Bahrain has just announced that it will join the United Arab Emirates
Tuesday at a White House ceremony, where President Trump and his top
Mideast aide and son in law, Jared Kushner, are scheduled to host Prime
Minister Netanyahu and the U.A.E.’s foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zaid.
In the event, the first peace agreement between (now two) Arab
countries and the Jewish state in a quarter century will be sealed with
hand shakes.Mr. Trump hints of more to come. Saudi Arabia, vying for leadership in the region, is the big prize. The U.A.E., and certainly Bahrain, wouldn't have signed on without its blessing, but, even as it allows for Israeli flights over its skies, Riyadh has yet to join them.
Critics won’t be inaccurate in noting the failures of the Gulf’s emirates, sultanates ,and theocracies involved in this breakthrough. Yet haven’t those same critics for years insisted that “you make peace with enemies”? Don’t they push the line that there can be no true peace before Jerusalem comes to terms with the Palestinian Authority, which similarly fails the paragon-of-democracy, benevolent-ruler test?.............To Read More.....
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