ed note–It will (or at least SHOULD) be remembered what the autonomic, reflexive, and ill-conceived ‘analysis’ was on the part of various ‘experts’ (whose claim to fame has been/is how ‘gifted’ they are in understanding the complicated and oftentimes confusing/consternating political machinations involving Israel and the Middle East) in the immediate aftermath of DJT, POTUS announcing the implementation of the ‘Abraham Accords’ normalizing relations between various Gulf State Arab countries and Israel, to wit-
‘He did this to please Netanyahu, his master, who put him in the White House…’
When in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
While the Abraham Accords do offer Israel some benefits such as having an easier time sending her spies into those countries, at the same time, the intended end result of these accords–drawing up fixed, internationally-recognized (and enforced) borders of the Jewish state and the creation of a Palestinian state–are things which Israel opposes with 666% of her being.
LET IT BE REMEMBERED that it was this website and (virtually) this website alone that pointed out with regular frequency that what DJT and his team–including his son in law Kushner–were aiming to achieve was the caging-in of the Zionist hydra and the creation of a Palestinian state on what land remained in the West Bank before being gobbled up by the voracious ju-hadists of Judea, just a few examples of which were/are listed below, to wit–
Kushner: ‘Our plan is to save the 2-state solution and stop Israel from eating up the land’
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Kushner: ‘Trump’s Peace Deal aimed at preventing settlement expansion’
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Kushner: Mideast Peace Plan Focuses on ‘Drawing Borders’
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In Trying to Win Support for Peace Plan, Kushner Inflames Israeli Right
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Kushner’s ‘establishing borders’ in Trump’s peace deal mention causing some in Israel to see red
etc, etc, etc…
Now, as much as some will see this as yet another gloatatious manifestation of ‘we told ya so’, it is not that at all. Rather, it is a warning viz the danger which poorly-formed analysis on the part of poorly-informed ‘analysts’ poses to public awareness and understanding (and thus to public discourse) which–by definition–results in public policy otherwise known as ‘politics’.
In short, yes, to some degree, probably not in great percentages, but nevertheless to some degree, that same poorly-formed ‘analysis’ on the part of those poorly-informed ‘analysts’ concerning DJT’s ‘deal of the century’ has now resulted in what is for all intents and purposes a coup d’etat in America every bit as real as if the country were invaded by a foreign hostile power and its political machinery taken over by foreign hostile elements out to remake America into something more pliable and cooperative to a foreign and hostile agenda.
Times of Israel
The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the US said Monday that the normalization agreement his country signed with Israel in September was primarily “about preventing annexation.”
Yousef al-Otaiba said that while many had sought to cast the agreement in different lights to suit their own narrative, for him it was mostly about stopping Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial plan to extend Israeli sovereignty to large parts of the West Bank.
“When the Abraham Accords were announced, everybody… looked at [it] through their own lens,” said al-Otaiba, explaining that both the Palestinians and the Iranians thought the normalization deal was meant as a message to their respective governments.
“The truth is that the Abraham Accords were about preventing annexation. The reason it happened the way that it happened and at the time it happened was to prevent annexation,” he said, speaking on a Zoom panel hosted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The ambassador recalled conversations with senior White House officials last year during which he tried to explain to them that Arab frustration over annexation would not blow over as it had with US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
“It is going to have a profoundly negative impact on the region, specifically on our friends in Jordan, on the rest of us who have begun opening up with Israel. It’s going to have a negative impact on America and I think on Israel,” he continued.
Otaiba said this concern led him to pen an op-ed in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth last June, detailing his concerns and specifying how annexation would threaten the possibility of Israeli ties with the Arab world: “For me as the guy who negotiated this deal, this was really about stopping annexation and saving the two-state solution.”