UAE recognizes Israel, countries normalize relations 🇦🇪🇮🇱

[CumbrianLefty]

This has got to be crushing for Palestinian morale, that despite making no real concessions at all the UAE and likely Oman & Bahrain are normalising ties with Israel. The unified Arab anti-Israel front is clearly gone forever.

Of course, this latest news just formally confirms a reality that has been the case for a while now.

[CumbrianLefty]

The Gulf states, in viewing Iran as a far bigger enemy, are finally putting aside their differences and aligning together with Israel. It’s just a matter of time before the remainder do so as well among Arab monarchies.

Feudal monarchies allying with the apartheid state against a theocracy, sidelining a stateless people stabbed in the back and used as a pretext once again. That's the Middle East, you know

I don't think you can fairly describe the Gulf States as feudal, given that land has so little value there. They're petrodespotisms.

Which of course leaves what happens when the oil finally runs out, very much an open question.

[CumbrianLefty]

You are shocked that self-styled "libertarians" are actually only for liberty when it suits them?

[CumbrianLefty]

Qatar is rather doubtful, I would have thought.

[CumbrianLefty]

KSA remains somewhat unlikely for the reasons already stated.

[CumbrianLefty]

<keep in mind, I'm a supporter of Israel's right to exist>

You could have fooled us tbf