This would demonstrate “restraint” internationally while exploiting the temporary good will the Iranian attack has created to finish off Hamas (at least as any kind of serious military threat for the foreseeable future as they won’t be permitted to re-constitute as Gaza recovers), and provide a much more defensible situation. And if SA can then be lobbied into the accords thereafter that pretty much cripples further Iranian aspirations toward regional dominance.

This would be the politically astute move for now imho.

“Sunnis, believed that Muhammad’s successor as caliph of the Islamic community should be Abu Bakr, whereas a second group of Muslims, who would come to be known as the Shias, believed that his successor should have been Ali ibn Abi Talib. This dispute spread across various parts of the Muslim world, which eventually led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin. Sectarianism based on this historic dispute intensified greatly after the Battle of Karbala, in which Husayn ibn Ali and some of his close partisans, including members and children of Muhammad’s household (Ahl al-Bayt), were killed by the ruling Umayyad Caliph Yazid I, and the outcry for revenge divided the early Islamic community, albeit disproportionately, into two groups, the Sunni and the Shia. This is known today as the Islamic schism”

It’s fun playing “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” game on the middle east to try and unravel who is with who. It changes daily!

Andi: It is astonishing how uninterested the press has been in the solid progress achieved during the Trump administration in lessening the hostility of many Arab nations toward Israel, of getting those Arab nations to realize that supporting the Palestinians blindly was not in their best interest. This was significant historical achievement, as important as the peace deal between Egypt and Israel under Carter.

That lack of interest not only illustrates the bankrupt partisanship of these so-called news outlets, it reveals their utter intellectual bankruptcy. They are so petty and partisan and blinded by hatred of Trump that they can’t even see a good thing when it stares them in the face.

The failure of the news to report Israel’s strong support from many Arab Middle Eastern nations during this entire Hama war demonstrates this. It should be big news that Jordan fought on the side of Israel here.