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Arab Disunity
By Micah Halpern

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I've been thinking:
We, in the West, are under a misconception that the Arab world is united.

It is not.
In order to understand the Arab world, we must first see the vast conflicts within their world and study Arab methods for conflict resolution. Only then will we be able to predict future behavior and plan, accordingly, a sophisticated and workable foreign policy for the Middle East.

Here is one example:
Since 1990 oil rich Kuwait and the Palestinians have been bitter enemies. Kuwait adopted an anti-Palestinian stance during the first Gulf War after Arafat and the Palestinians supported Iraq and Saddam when Kuwait was invaded.

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak just visited Kuwait. While there he succeeded in convincing the Kuwaitis to lift their 14 year ban on the Palestinians. He received a Kuwaiti commitment to assist in the Palestinian Israeli peace negotiations.

This shows, once again, the movement and change, dare I say progress, which has shaken down since Arafat's deaths.

Egypt NEEDS to be the main player and leader of the moderate Middle East and bringing Kuwait into the game is a big success. That is one of the dynamics of the Middle East that the West has yet to assimilate.


4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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