Israeli-Arab Piece Program: joint fear of Iran, bye-bye Palestine

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 1:04pm |

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/19/why-israel-quietly-cosying-up-to-gulf-monarchies-saudi-arabia-uae

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Splains what I saw yesterday, that Rouhani had basically made up his own "Axis of Evil" as a campaign point:

Brian Hook: “Rouhani asked Iranians to ‘put all your curses’ on the U.S., Israel, and Saudi Arabia in response to a crumbling economy. https://t.co/UulAsplmIG
— Sergiy Bykov (@Sergiy_Bykov) March 19, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:37pm

What Jared is trying to do:

According to sources who saw Kushner's plan: Jordan would give land to the Palestinian territories, and "in return, Jordan would get land from Saudi Arabia, and that country would get back two Red Sea islands it gave Egypt to administer in 1950."https://t.co/3eexBoo2Ty
— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) March 19, 2019

by artappraiser on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 10:00pm

Lots of news on the Mideast geo-political front today after the big meeting between Syria, Iran, Iraq military chiefs. (And yeah, who gives a shit about Palestine anymore? Not anyone in the 'hood):

Stuff like this

Iraq, Iran, Syria agree on further anti-terror intelligence coordination

@ IraqiNews.com, Mar 19, 2019, 10:33 pm

US Pressures Iraq Over Embrace of Militias Linked to Iran
@ New York Times, Mar 19, 2019

IRAQ-SYRIA-IRAN HOLD 'TRIPARTITE' MEETING AGAINST U.S. IN SYRIA

@ The Jerusalem Post, Mar 19

“We have shown our unity in this war and fighting together against enemies,” Syrian President Bashar Assad said, according to Iran’s Tasnim news.

Then there's this related stuff going on too:

Turkey hopes Iran, Iraq and Syria will help it strangle the PKK

@ The Jerusalem Post-Mar 18, 2019

On Sunday, clashes broke out in northern Iraq between a group of Yazidi paramilitaries and members of the Iraqi army. The Iraqi army claims that a force of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attacked a checkpoint, resulting in deaths on both sides. The serious incident – in the Sinjar area where ISIS attempted genocide against members of the Yazidi minority – will raise concerns about instability but it is also part of a larger regional attempt to crackdown on groups connected to the PKK.

On March 6, Turkey and Iran said they were planning to work more closely to confront the PKK [....]

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/20/2019 - 11:31am

“No formal U.S. process or executive committees were initiated to review the policy before Trump’s decision, and the diplomats responsible for implementing the policy were left in the dark.”

Read more here: https://t.co/FM6FW0y32g https://t.co/rKDA764ff1
— Jeffrey Prescott (@jeffreyprescott) March 22, 2019

I've run across other tweets that just outright call it a Trump campaign ad, not real policy.

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 10:29pm

For Trump, with any action, his only question is, "What's in it for me, and can I get away with it?"

by NCD on Thu, 03/21/2019 - 10:55pm

On point of thread

The timing was just right. "...when President Trump on Thursday called for the United States to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, the shift was met across much of the Arab world with a shrug."https://t.co/8RNInVXT6e
— Bill Roggio (@billroggio) March 23, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 3:30am

From The Economist's Middle East Correspondent, and author of "How Long Will Israel Survive? The Threat From Within.":

"[Pompeo's] express purpose for going to Lebanon was to denounce Hezbollah and its allies in the government. It is rare for a country’s top diplomat to publicly declare that a visit is aimed at berating a government or a party within it." https://t.co/ZuDwyJkjjm
— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) March 23, 2019

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 2:22am

Rare and yet reminiscent of how fascist demagogues foreign ministers behave, historical snapshot from Wiki:

In a protest note at Ribbentrop's (Pompeo's) behaviour, Poland's (Lebanon's) Foreign Minister reminded the (American) Foreign Minister that (Lebanon) was an independent country and not some sort of protectorate that (Pompeo) could bully at will.

by NCD on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 4:41pm

The imminent recognition of the Golan as Israeli territory is very depressing. I'm not sure Trump won't soon be recognizing the West Bank and Gaza as Israeli territory.

Not very relevant, but I just had a very frustrating online debate with someone who said Israel's actions are as bad as the Holocaust. I ended up taking a Clonazepam.

by Aaron Carine on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 3:40pm

They need to occupy more before recognition becomes useful.

But no, while ugly, this is far from the horrors of the Holocaust. People do like to talk some...

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 5:04pm

Aaron, on your second point, that just strikes me as the ultimate classic in trolling. The goal was to get you to get you to the state of taking some Clonazepam, not to discuss I-P. Exact same "debates" happened all the time in the blogosphere several presidents ago to the point where proprietors decided to ban I-P threads. It's basically why "Godwin's Law" was invented. Try not to take the bait, and you'll be able to save your Clonazepam for meatspace anxiety attacks.

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/24/2019 - 5:53pm

"How the Gulf States Got in Bed With Israel and Forgot About The Palestinian Cause"

Riyadh’s aspiration to reach a detente with Israel renders the Arab Peace Initiative it put forth almost two decades ago almost irrelevant. https://t.co/qdiYh2y0pC
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) March 29, 2019

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 7:53pm

Israeli-Arab Piece Program: joint fear of Iran, bye-bye Palestine

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