Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan sit during the Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)
Max Boot, Washington Post: So much for the Abraham Accords. Trump made things worse in the Middle East.
On Sept. 15, 2020, President Donald Trump trumpeted his proudest — and virtually sole — foreign policy achievement: the signing of the Abraham Accords opening formal ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.“After decades of division and conflict, we mark the dawn of a new Middle East,” he said in a White House ceremony. “Together, these agreements will serve as the foundation for a comprehensive peace across the entire region.”
Fast forward eight months, and that boast appears even more risible now than it did at the time. The clashes in recent days between Israelis and Palestinians make clear that there is no “peace” and no “new Middle East.” It remains the same blood-soaked mess as ever. The Abraham Accords were nice, but they did nothing to resolve underlying conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Libya — or the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now seeing one of its periodic eruptions of violence, with Hamas inundating Israel with rockets from the Gaza Strip and Israeli warplanes striking back against targets in Gaza. The result is civilian casualties on both sides — although, as usual, far more among the Palestinians than among the better-protected Israelis.
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WNU Editor: Max Boot .... like Liz Cheney .... is a never-Trumper. But the above ridiculous opinion post illustrates what happens when you suffer from Trump derangement syndrome.
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Is Max Boot conservative or libertarian or a mixed bag?
He is pro-immigration, which really says nothing or it is an exercise of wear your heart on your sleeve. I assume he means legal immigration. Until he gives a number of how many people should be able to immigrate, he has not espoused a considered policy position. Should immigration be tied to carrying capacity? If we have 1 to 3 million people immigrate why not 6 or 10 million or more? With a million plus immigrants a year at what point do we look like China?
Max is also a warmunist.
Sure Max is a smart guy and you learn stuff OJT, but Max is a history major and it shows.
So Max is pro-immigration and pro-climate control. With his libertarian beliefs he almost looks a tad left of center. Will anyone tell him?
MAX BOOT TALKED EVERYONE INTO THE IRAQ WAR
this monster of a human should sht the fck up and be glad he's permitted to live among us.. Washington post is pure garbage. Do not post such filth here, this is a decent blog
no stupido: Buash got us into ZIrasq war. How many people subscribe and read Wash Post--he got us into war! dumb statement
Surrounded by rioters who had dragged him down the U.S. Capitol steps, beaten him and Tasered him, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone screamed in pain.
“I got one!” one of the rioters yelled triumphantly.
As the crowd pushed in, grabbing at his head, Fanone screamed again and then pleaded for help. “I got kids!” he yelled.
The intense scene plays out in body-camera footage of the attack broadcast by CNN on Wednesday evening, casting new light on Fanone’s struggle to escape a clash he later described as “the most brutal, savage hand-to-hand combat of my entire life.” Fanone suffered a mild heart attack and a concussion in the melee.
EXCLUSIVE: @CNN has obtained bodycam video showing the attack on DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Fanone was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole. Watch: pic.twitter.com/TaItyUz9IX
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) May 13, 2021
The vivid violence in the clip stands in stark contrast to claims by some Republicans on Wednesday, who sought to downplay the severity of the deadly insurrection — with one GOP lawmaker even describing the attack as a “normal tourist visit.”
Liar
FL strikes another blow @ 8:53 for the Ministry of Truth.
That’s where a new group of challengers to the GOP comes in. On Thursday, 150 former governors, members of Congress, Cabinet officials, senior administration officials, strategists and grass-roots leaders issued their own declaration of independence with an explicit threat to leave the party if the GOP does not abandon the MAGA mentality. In a document titled, “A Call to American Renewal,” the signatories reference Cheney’s ouster and write, “This ‘common-sense coalition’ seeks to catalyze the reform of the Republican Party and its recommitment to truth, founding ideals, and decency or, if unsuccessful, lay the foundation for an alternative.”
The list of signatories include former governors Bill Weld of Massachusetts, Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey; former representatives Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, Barbara Comstock of Virginia, James Leach of Iowa, Tom Coleman of Missouri, Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma and Denver Riggleman of Virginia; former CIA director Michael Hayden; former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff; former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele; and conservative voices such as George Conway and Mona Charen.
Co-founder Miles Taylor, the former Homeland Security official fired under the last president and author of the anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, explained in an interview with MSNBC that this is the “'I’m not crazy’ coalition inside the Republican Party.” He added, “We’re gonna announce a group of Republicans and ex-Republicans that say we want rational, pragmatic governance,” but backed up with the threat to leave the party if the GOP doesn’t get its act together.
And FL goes full frontal tard.
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