TEL AVIV – Assuming that last-minute disputes over masking and social estating can be resolved in time, the South Garden of the White House will once again be that of a historic middle-east peace agreement. The Emirates is normalizing its relations with Israel.
Rejecting the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East has been a totemic political and ethical commitment in the Arab world for 75 years. Travel to or from Israel is prohibited, as are all industrial, cultural and sporting competitions. the mention of the so-called “Israel” has been refuted in favor of election formulations such as the “Zionist entity”. The two Arab states that, after a series of military defeats, signed peace treaties with Israel maintained formal relations avoiding anything resembling the dreaded “normalization. “
So it’s a big problem, not only for the 3 states involved or even for the Trump administration, desperate to spit out a good fortune from the election season rather than drops of contagion, but for a regional order that is fast becoming the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf and is also an opportunity to revisit the wisdom gained from the gloriously confident elegance of experts in Arab-Israeli peace , not only to mock them for being so occasionally wrong and so in the years leading up to this breakthrough, but also for being so rudely false and petty in their reactions since the announcement of the agreements.