[Salon] What has happened was not unforeseeable

[Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>]

An excerpt from "From Pawns to Global Powers," 14 February 2023.   https://chasfreeman.net/from-pawns-to-global-powers-the-nations-of-the-middle-east-strike-back/

The Israel-Palestine conflict may briefly have receded from the regional diplomatic agenda but it now seems poised to return in force. The “Abraham Accords” remain in effect but show no sign of being more likely to produce Arab acceptance of Zionism’s insistence on Jewish supremacy in Palestine than the Camp David accords did forty-four years ago.  The latest Arab Opinion Index poll shows that 84.3 percent of Arabs oppose recognizing Israel, with three-fourths citing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians and racism as the reason.  Only 5.1 percent cite religious reasons.