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Hitching the cart before the horse: A grand regional bargain cannot be advanced unless Iran is dealt with first
Colonel (res) Dr Eran Lerman
February 26, 2024
…To the untrained eye, this may seem like a proposition that Israel should heartily endorse, resolving some of its most fundamental problems and offering a future of successful integration in the region. Yet even when setting aside the ideological objections to a Palestinian state, and skipping over the leaps of faith and what could be called “magical thinking” about a transformed PA and a Saudi willingness to shake hands openly with Israel’s leadership, there is still a basic flaw in this design which raises serious questions as to its validity…Unless a much more robust effort is made to clip Tehran’s wings and cut off its talons, there will be a totalitarian temptation for the Palestinians to latch on to Iran (as they did with Nazi Germany and then with the Soviet Union) rather than accept an American proposition requiring them to accept the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish people’s right to self-determination. READ MORE
ArchitectGuy on Israel 
Why has Russia stationed troops and built military bases on the Syrian-Golan border? Israel plans to break off all diplomatic relations with the United Nations. The days of UN Peace-Keeping troops stationed on hot borders-over. Russia & Israel share diplomatic relations just as does Egypt & Israel. Egypt has placed a Division of troops and tanks on the border with Rafah. International relations conducted through diplomacy.
Far preferable to the farce of UN GA condemnations of Israel. Both Russia and Egypt do not desire the current Oct 7th Abomination War between Israel and the Hamas government of Gaza to expand, and include threats to the continued existence of the international status-quo borders, established by previous general-wars.
At the Camp David Peace Accords Sadat validated Gaza under the “serenity” of Israel. Russia does not recognize the Israeli nationalization of the Golan. However to change the status of disputed borders, of either Gaza or the Golan Heights, involves the explosion of a far bigger war. Another general war carries HUGE risks for both the winners & the losers of such an expanded war for both Egypt, Syria & Israel.
The Abraham Accords has destroyed the European post June ’67 War attempt to dictate a divide and conquer 2-State ‘Final’ Solution upon the Jewish people of Israel. The failure of the UN Apartheid: its refusal to recognize – only Israel – as a member-state of its own geographic region, together with the UN Security Council 242 Resolution – abomination, these primary reasons, coupled with the UN aid & support of Hamas terrorism on Oct 7th, coupled with the blood libel slander — Genocide in Gaza — these many & multiple crimes, they caused the UN to cross the Red-Line of Israeli toleration for the post WWII restoration of Wilson’s League of Nations bankrupt & worthless successor.
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