Israel’s New Peace Treaties Reveal How Much the Experts Misunderstood the Middle East
The naysayers are wrong.
October 5, 2020
Israel’s New Peace Treaties Reveal How Much the Experts Misunderstood the Middle East
The naysayers are wrong.
In December of 2016, the outgoing secretary of state John Kerry expressed the conventional wisdom in policymaking circles when he said that Israel and those who wish it well must accept the “hard reality” that “there will be no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace.” The recent agreements Jerusalem concluded with Dubai and Manama show just how wrong Kerry was. Yet as Lewis Libby and Hillel Fradkin point out, there has long been a minority of observers, Benjamin Netanyahu among them, who have never uncritically accepted that conventional assessment:
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