Welcome to the Post-Palestine Middle East
The anti-Israel cause is losing its power over the Arab world.
September 17, 2020
Welcome to the Post-Palestine Middle East
The anti-Israel cause is losing its power over the Arab world.
To Hussein Aboubakr, the signing of the Abraham Accords by Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel on Tuesday represents a massive change in the Middle East, and the Islamic world as a whole. For nearly a century, successive political and religious movements have held up the Palestinian—or, better, the anti-Israel—cause as a lodestar, imbuing it with near-eschatological significance. The willingness of these two Arab monarchies to engage openly with the Jewish state suggests signals that this cause is rapidly losing its power:
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