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Is Israel About to Join the Sunni Muslim Middle East?
If Saudi Arabia normalizes ties with Israel, after moderate Arab regimes aided Israel against Iran's attack's, there could be realignment of the Middle East along sectarian lines – but this time, with Israel as part of the Sunni team
In the aftermath of the recent unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel, the Arab world deployed an unconventional arsenal, cucumber memes, to mock Iran.
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Nana
23:13 07.05.2024You dont get it, do yah???
Get used to the new realities of the region..
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Joe
09:16 01.05.2024Everybody knows the US has no power to change Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's mind. How can Saudi Arabia trust the US will do anything in the Middle East without Israel's approval? Kushner promised UAE F-35 for normalization with Israel. Congress said that after Trump left the White House, Saudi Arabia needed to think twice before normalizing for incentives.
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Why
05:39 01.05.2024"Hysteria over Genocide". If it were the Israelis being destroyed in Gaza, I bet there would be huge claims of Genocide.
I imagine the Iranians will be greatly releived to have the Palestinians under the supervision of Saudi Arabia. It will enable them to focus on the well being of their own people and stop being suckered in to being the "evil enemy" of Israel, for trying to support Palestinian rights.
If Saudi Arabia is able to broker a deal that enables the Palestinians to have their own state, that would be great. But that state would be under Sunni Law of course. Saudi Arabia is afterall, not a democracy, and strictly Sunni.
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William
22:29 30.04.2024Nonsensical headline , after Killing mostly 34,000 Sunni's in Gaza , ( Including 14,000 Children ) any Sunni state would be committing Suicide by association with the Masada Entity.
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Only half a Jew
18:38 02.05.2024WilliamWe should never forget that the leaders of these so-called moderate countries don't give a flying sh*t about their own people let alone tens of thousands of Sunnis being killed in Gaza by Israel. They’re more concerned about strategic alliances that keep them in power. Remember when the Saudis were trying to have an agreement with Israel under Trump they didn’t give a damn about the Palestinians. Palestinians weren’t mentioned once in the proposed agreements. That’s one of the reasons 10/7 happened. It reminded the Saudis that the Palestinians even though brutally occupied for over 75 years are still a force to be reckoned with.
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Lindsay MH
21:47 30.04.2024The real question is: will Israel ever be willing to listen to anyone who isn't Israel? If the answer is no, no partnership outside of maybe the US will last much longer.
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Nana
18:38 30.04.2024If shame had another name, it definitely would be called Arab Sunnies
