Around a day ago, the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Mr.
Ayman Safadi, gave an interview with JNS and made the point that:
https://www.jns.org/ridiculous-to-say-unrwa-a-threat-to-israel-jordans-foreign-minister-says/
While the loss of human life is a tragedy, the global
diplomatic maneuverings have exposed the global order as being a farce.
Everyone sees who the victim is. However, when the bully walks onto the global
stage, you have the nations that claim to stand up for things like human rights,
democracy and decency clapping and cheering for him. So, when people like Mr.
Safadi get onto the world stage to point out the obvious like the fact that the
current Israeli government has no interest in peace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8zFcL67rvk
You have plenty of people in the so called “decent”
nations of the Western world wringing their hands telling us that the issues of
the Middle East are complicated. The reality, however, is that the issues in
the Middle East are quite simple. As Piers Morgan was forced to admit when debating
Medhi Hassan, Israel is an ally of the West and whether we like it or not,
nations where people of European decent killing semitic people for having the
audacity to fight back is called “self-defense.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo_uGb95hic
Unfortunately, peace making is “dangerous” and not encouraged.
Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian President who signed the first Camp David Accords was
assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood. Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime
Minister who signed the Oslo Accords with the PLO and Wadi Araba treaty with
Jordan was shot by a Jewish settler.
As faulty as the Oslo Accords may have been, they were
at the time, popular on both sides. Israelis saw a way where they could live in
peace. The nations that made peace Israel also had sense that they’d not be
humiliated and robbed. However, for the leaders on both sides, the lesson was
clear – peace was very bad for staying in power.
This was particularly true on the Israel side, when
Benyamin Netanyahu became the luckiest politician in Israeli history by making
a career of destroying whatever attempts had been made by his predecessors to
secure anything resembling a lasting peace.
What made Mr. Netanyahu seem successful has been be
blind backing of his Western allies, or more specifically the United States,
which remains the one indispensable power to the region. Mr. Netanyahu is well
aware of the fact that no American politician wishing to stay in power crosses
the Israeli lobby and whenever there’s an excuse to bomb the living daylights
out of any of the Palestinian states or an Arab state without oil, the America
inevitably does as instructed by Israel.
This hasn’t made life easy to America’s Arab allies
like Saudi Arabia or Jordan. King Abdullah of Jordan received online criticism for
shooting down Iranian drones that were fired at Israel, thus preventing an
escalation of tensions. And if you talk to enough people outside the region,
they’ll take the view that Israel is merely trying to defend itself from Arabs
and Muslims who have an “irrational” hatred of the Jewish state.
Yet, everyone seems to forget that, it’s not the “post-Rabin”
Israel making efforts to make peace. In 2005-2006, it was the late Saudi King
Abdullah (as a matter disclaimer, I worked for the Saudi embassy in Singapore
at that time and wrote for Arab News of Saudi Arabia) who proposed an
independent of America, peace plan based on existing UN resolutions. Solution was
simple withdraw to 1967 borders in return for diplomatic recognition by all 22-members
of the Arab League. As a former Saudi Ambassador to Singapore said at the time,”
We’ve given them a guarantee of security.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2010/3/28/the-arab-peace-initiative