The last in a series of normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel under the Trump and his oligarchy incitements is unfolding in these days, and it's revealing a fierce competition among the various Arab entities of who can get what and when. And who can prove more brotherly and accommodating to the 70 years classic enemy. As the new adminis-tration has some different views and tactics to the entire affair.
While on the American side, previous administrations were always inclined to work and expand the covert peace between some of the Arabs like Morocco and the Gulf emirates rather than bring it out of the closet with defiant tactics and pressures, they simply didn't want to risk paying a higher price or loosing general Arab and Muslem support. Trump shelled out for it without a blink of an eye, and the loss of support never became a reality, the same when he approved the annexation of the Golan heights and Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank and its new waves of settlers.
The latest addition, Morocco, has won an obvious good price as a result of its agreement to normalize relations with Israel, American and Israeli recognition of its sovereignty over Western Sahara, a situation not approved by most international organizations and countries. while both countries, hoping for a defacto recognition of their illegal annexations of territories gained under arms and full force of wars. And once more some-one is approving and giving away something that doesn't belong to them.
Some Trump followers wonder why a fair majority of Americans and world wide citizens and leaders were more than jubilant to see Mr. Trump and his oligarchy lose the elections and vacate the White House. Many accuse most politicians in America of being at the mercy of Israeli lobbies, but most at least through the years, tried to maintain a semblance of decency, and some restrained actions and statements, that was the reason, at least partly, Jerusalem was not approved as capital of the strictly Jewish state and parts of stolen territories of Arab neighbors were not recognized.
But once again, Trump and his oligarchy proved to America and the world that anything goes, as long as the price is well and right, and maintaining power and office justifies any action at all. Congress has it backward, it should be very difficult for a president to take the country to war and easy for that war to be ended. Time after time the "peace" candidate usually wins the elections, and no matter how tired Americans are of endless wars, the war machine finds a way to keep chugging along and returning to some form of war. The Trump administration was very close, and now we're a little further away.
The Biden administration announced lately it was restoring relations with the Palestinians and renewing aid to Palestinian refugees. "Yet, we recognize that Arab Israeli normalization is not a substitute for Israeli/Palestinian peace" said acting U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills, not to mention the Biden cold stance on some of the other incitements by the previous administration, as in arms and advanced jet fighters and nuclear tech to Saudi, aid and easement of policies to Sudan, and its cold acceptance of the Morocco Western Sahara conflict.
The insistence of the Biden team to a greater international mediation, and more balanced peace initiative between Palestinians and Israeli sides by fairer negotiations and not coerciveness, force and ruse, is the better approach and the one accepted by most international organizations and parties, as well as the Palestinian side. The only sides opposing it and any serious attempt at peace were Zionist Israel and the Trump administration and oligarchy.
As Stephen Wertheimer said in a NY times article recently, "the task for Mr. Biden, and a new generation, is not to restore American leadership of the world, but rather to lead America to a new place in the world .
As always, my many thanks to all, stay safe and well.
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