Talk of 'historic' Middle East breakthroughs is premature

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'Why do such powerful men kill such relatively powerless ones? Because being a despot is a nervous business. Who knows when your own population is going to decide it is tired of being dictated to?' | OPINION

The Bahraini regime has shot more bullets at its own people than it ever has at Israel. The UAE and Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen has killed more people in five years than Israel has lost in all the wars it has fought since 1948. But these regimes are always looking for help with surveillance and running their security states.

For many years now they have covertly looked to Israel, which in addition to being "the only democracy in the Middle East" also rules over millions of Palestinians who aren't its citizens in a super-securitised archipelago of checkpoints, jails and besieged towns. But the Gulf kings have also been courted by Beijing, with Chinese President Xi Jinping offering them 1 billion yuan to "build capacity for stability maintenance". It is not hard to imagine what this means when we look at the situation in Hong Kong or the treatment of the Muslim population in Xinjiang – a population about which the Gulf monarchs, though Muslims themselves, have maintained a studied silence..

But Trump can collect as many despots as he likes and stick them in his little scrapbook. This isn't a Pokemon game – it's a conflict between Israelis and Palestinians over Palestinians' basic human rights. Until the voices of those Palestinians are heard and enfranchised, rather than ignored and marginalised while rich men drink to each other's health, all talk of ass-saving and of historic breakthroughs is premature.

 

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A_Jonno It’s an art. An art on/of BULLYING FOR BILLIONAIRES. To bad they did have a Dummies book 📚 for that. I’d read it. Might help me win a verbal fight once in a while. Bahaha 🤣

peace deals in the middle east do not fit globalist media narrative or the demands of billionaire owned military industrial complex . . . no wonder Trump is winning

Where’s Dictator Dans pic?

...how many wars has Trump started since he’s been POTUS? That is peace.

Maybe if he started a new war the media would praise him and he would win the Nobel Peace Prize. No new wars, they attack him.

Historic Peace Accord !!!!!

Better keep an eye on Dan Andrews then.

2) facts and distort public opinion with false facts is the real despot of journalism! Has the author visited the Middle East or Iran and tried their breed of journalism there! It would not cost much. Just buy a one way ticket!

1)Despots? Really? What has this age journalist being eating, drinking or perhaps smoking? They have been democratically elected with overwhelming majority of the popular vote and century old Electoral College system in US and this leader are despots? The author trying to mangle

Joe Despot!!!

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