NYTimes: “The U.S. Must Now Reckon With a Hegemon in the Mideast: Israel”
The Trump administration, assuming it still considers peace between Israel and the Palestinians a top priority, will find it harder than ever to persuade Israel to convert its newfound military dominance into enduring political agreements with its Arab and Palestinian neighbors. There are no deals on the cheap here, to be scribbled on the back of cocktail napkins. President Trump and his team will need to put in the time and effort and press key Arab states and the Palestinians to do their part and, in an even tougher task, push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to make concessions. Mr. Netanyahu’s recent visit to Washington suggests that Mr. Trump isn’t yet ready to try.
The Israeli leader and his far-right coalition are disinclined to strike deals, especially given that the Trump administration has imposed few [if any] constraints on Israel’s actions in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon or Syria. Mr. Netanyahu is facing trial on various charges for which he can escape judgment only by remaining in office. He is not going to jeopardize his hold on power. …
[Re Syria]: The United States values stability because it lowers the odds of intervention and is better for Syrians; Israel, however, favors a weak and divided Syria [as it always has—hence the long anti-Assad civil war]. It has already begun building military bases there. The administration should urge Israel to work with Damascus to meet Israel’s security concerns so that the Israel forces can pull back. [Good luck with that!]
Israel’s form of hegemony has engendered a temporary stability. But it won’t last without converting Israel’s military dominance into arrangements and agreements with its Palestinian and Arab neighbors that reflect a balance of interest rather than the current asymmetry of power, which sooner or later will lead to more confrontation, violence and terror.
Entire op-ed Here.
China gets Taiwan & anything else
Russia gets Ukraine & much else
Israel gets the Middle East
America gets [fill in the blank]
I’m becoming convinced that as long as jews exist in any significant numbers and in places of power we will never see anything resembling world peace.
If the Arabs want to avoid a tortuous death for their families, for their wives and children, and for each other, their only option now is to preemptively painlessly euthanize themselves on their own terms. Is it really that big a deal? Most Arabs already believe in G-d, so they would just go to the After-Life and enjoy Heaven for all eternity. And if there is no G-d, then they would all die anyway due to the laws of physics dictating that all organic life must die. Thus, it’s a win-win situation either way for them to euthanize themselves. On a similar note, here is my post at Unz review:
If West wants to sink China, they can just block all future sales of commercial passenger planes to China. China can’t make commercial planes – they have to import Airbus from France and Boeing from USA. If West blocks both jet planes and parts, then China would collapse, no? So, no more planes for China, and no more electronic processors smaller than 8nm for China. Checkmate, no? Will China be willing to “go out” with ethnic “honor” and just destroy the biosphere by launching all their nukes, taking the entire human species to the After-Life to face Judgement by G-d? No, Chinese are not Israelites, they have no innate subjective sense of collective ethno-religious “honor.” They will not destroy Earth and take everyone down with them. Rather, China will just quietly disappear, quietly go extinct, and the Israelites know this.