The Nasrallah strike, now this.
So far, contra the fears of many of us, the country best exploiting the power vacuum in Washington has been Israel.
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The Nasrallah strike, now this.
So far, contra the fears of many of us, the country best exploiting the power vacuum in Washington has been Israel.
The best part of the Nasrallah strike was that not only did they brush off Blinken’s demand for a ceasefire but they used American-built planes and bombs to do it
What we learned from the past 20 years of the Middle East is:
1) Arabs, as Bin Laden reminded us, like the strong horse
2) Most Arabs are Sunni and aren’t crazy about the Shi’ite minorities
3) Arabs don’t like Iran or its proxies
4) Arabs really don’t care that much about the Palestinians
Strangely enough the Biden Administration is on the wrong side of all four of those points and Israel is on the right side.
I think most of the Arab world is loving it… despite the fact that the IDF is not DEI-compliant