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Interesting. Netanyahu& #39;s confidence and bluster in stiff-arming any two-state solution to the Palestinian question was predicated on Israel& #39;s emergence as the first "Jewish-Sunni" state -- a backchannel alliance with the Saudis and Egypt against Iran... https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1390350415234052096">https://twitter.com/Slate/sta...
Interesting. Netanyahu& #39;s confidence and bluster in stiff-arming any two-state solution to the Palestinian question was predicated on Israel& #39;s emergence as the first "Jewish-Sunni" state -- a backchannel alliance with the Saudis and Egypt against Iran... https://twitter.com/Slate/status/1390350415234052096">https://twitter.com/Slate/sta...
...in which SA, Egypt and the Gulf States were willing to de-emphasize the Palestinian cause while Israel delivered for them as a bulwark against Iran. With the Sunni flank secured, Netanyahu could bluster and middle-finger and settlement-build as if he was playing...
...the long game. But that requires a few things to continue: 1) The Shia-Sunni divide isn& #39;t ever pacfied or bridged. 2) The U.S. continues to go all-in on combatively engaging Iran and giving the Saudis no reason to stand down or compromise with Iran. And 3)...
a U.S. administration has to be wholly and permanently committed to maintaining and even exacerbating the Israel/Sunni-Shia divide. The last administration was quite committed and Netanyahu rolled the dice with Trump and right-wing extremism. He shit on the Democrats...
...and more importantly, on fundamental democratic principles and the very premise that the Israeli-American alliance -- and even ties to many center or left-leaning American Jews -- has to exist as a bedrock of Israeli foreign policy...
...And now, perhaps, with America less willing to play this forever-cold-war between Iran and its Sunni rivals, a window is opening up that has nothing to do with Israel or the United States. And the additional cost, of course, will come in the damage to Israel& #39;s...
...relations not only with any administration to the left of a Donald Trump, but in the distancing of many younger American Jews who held the Trump misrule and those who supported it -- for whatever reason -- in utter disdain.
