Capturing the MidEast in short soundbites: poignant reflections by people who understand the complexities of the Middle East. My philosophy is: "less is more." You won't agree with everything that's here, but I'm confident you will find it interesting! Excepting the titles, my own comments are minimal. Instead I rely on news sources to string together what I hope is an interesting, politically challenging, non-partisan, non-ideological narrative.
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
"The Old Arab Order is Gone!"
Where Is the Arab Bloc that Championed the Palestinian Cause?
- Jonathan Spyer
The U.S. peace plan won't bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but it may expose deeper processes of change underway in the Middle East. Both the Palestinian cause and the broader Arab political bloc that long championed it are in disarray, while the Palestinians are divided geographically.
Viewing the power edifice that stood behind the Palestinian cause, Saddam Hussein's Iraq is a distant memory. Bashar Assad presides over rubble in Syria. Moammar Gadhafi's Libya is broken up. Egypt is Israel's strategic partner, enforcing its own partial blockade of Gaza.
It has fallen to Iran and Turkey to continue the Palestinian fight.
That non-Arab states must take up the Arab world's traditional banner of the Palestinian cause confirms that the old Arab order is gone.
The writer is director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis.
(Wall Street Journal)
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