Israel's GDP is 45% of Saudi Arabia's (so Israeli GDP/capita is 160% of Saudi Arabia's)
Israel has higher life expectancy and more hospital beds and physicians per capita
15% of Israel's population has Masters degrees vs 4% of Saudi Arabia's
More than 50% of Israel's exports are high-tech vs 3% for Saudi Arabia
It's clear which is the more valuable US and Western ally, especially if, as you mention, oil from currently sanctioned Iran and Venezuela floods the markets again.
The ideology that has had Islamic countries from North Africa and Middle East who have never excepted the creation of Israel and accepted in un rules .
For this they expelled Jews from their countries which Israel never reciprocated by expelling Muslims from their country.
Arafat had fantastic opportunity for state of Palestine but he not just wasted it but burnt the agreement.
I don’t forsee any change, because the only language Islamic countries understand is strength but not dialogue.
Curious how one determines the honest subjective beliefs of an abstract category like “the Palestinian”? Should we administer a questionnaire every year to everybody in the West Bank and Gaza? Do 100% of them need to answer that they are fine with a Jewish state for this to work or is 80% enough? What if some lie on the questionnaire? Maybe a lie detector should be used with everybody. Or maybe there is some mass brain scanning technology that I haven’t heard about.
I’m also not clear why all “Arabs” are involved in this. It’s clearly an incoherent category that has no political basis. What do Moroccans have to do with any of this.
Another clarification - do all Jews everywhere need to be convinced that these half billion Arabs (who have passed the lie detector test) support a Jewish state? What if you have irrational holdouts that resist the empirical evidence presented.
I’m sure this is a brilliant proposal, I’m just not entirely clear how it actually isn’t the nonsense ramblings of an idiot who is completely untethered from the real world and how it functions.
Thank you Hussain for starting off my day with an excellent summary. As Iran is imminently about to fracture, the ever-present jostling for "baddest man in the whole damn (Middle East) town" is heating up. Naturally, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia cannot resist tipping their hands and making clear their malignant, obstructionist intents. It is immensely helpful when Nations cannot stop revealing their true intentions. Fortunately, all World Leaders sitting on the Board of Peace will be wearing their "big boy pants". When they act to prevent economic rehabilitation and coexistence in the Middle East, they will be reminded in the privacy of the conference room of their opportunities to choose living in the past VERSUS moving forward toward non-petroleum-based longevity. Some leaders will obstinately cling to past behaviors--they simply cannot help themselves. Economic coexistence is sustainable. As the Saudis and UAE come to terms with the subterfuge they experience in Yemen, their motivations to join the land of the economically-thriving living may or may not translate to rational actions. As that wise American Philosopher, Mr. Ron White, often states, "You can't fix stupid." And deliberately living in perpetual Middle East subterfuge is actually now the definition of "stupid" in the Merriam Dictionary. Gratefully, Gary
Very thoughtful and meaningful proposal. But it does require an ideological reframing that may be difficult for the Arabs around Israel to achieve. But when there is a will, there is a way. Let's hope somewhere in the Arabian desert there is enough will.
The trouble with that is that, by repeated actual test, Palestinians don’t want land. They just want the Jews not to have any.
Worth comparing Saudi Arabia with Israel:
Israel's GDP is 45% of Saudi Arabia's (so Israeli GDP/capita is 160% of Saudi Arabia's)
Israel has higher life expectancy and more hospital beds and physicians per capita
15% of Israel's population has Masters degrees vs 4% of Saudi Arabia's
More than 50% of Israel's exports are high-tech vs 3% for Saudi Arabia
It's clear which is the more valuable US and Western ally, especially if, as you mention, oil from currently sanctioned Iran and Venezuela floods the markets again.
https://www.worlddata.info/country-comparison.php?country1=ISR&country2=SAU
https://tradingeconomics.com/israel/exports-by-category
The ideology that has had Islamic countries from North Africa and Middle East who have never excepted the creation of Israel and accepted in un rules .
For this they expelled Jews from their countries which Israel never reciprocated by expelling Muslims from their country.
Arafat had fantastic opportunity for state of Palestine but he not just wasted it but burnt the agreement.
I don’t forsee any change, because the only language Islamic countries understand is strength but not dialogue.
Curious how one determines the honest subjective beliefs of an abstract category like “the Palestinian”? Should we administer a questionnaire every year to everybody in the West Bank and Gaza? Do 100% of them need to answer that they are fine with a Jewish state for this to work or is 80% enough? What if some lie on the questionnaire? Maybe a lie detector should be used with everybody. Or maybe there is some mass brain scanning technology that I haven’t heard about.
I’m also not clear why all “Arabs” are involved in this. It’s clearly an incoherent category that has no political basis. What do Moroccans have to do with any of this.
Another clarification - do all Jews everywhere need to be convinced that these half billion Arabs (who have passed the lie detector test) support a Jewish state? What if you have irrational holdouts that resist the empirical evidence presented.
I’m sure this is a brilliant proposal, I’m just not entirely clear how it actually isn’t the nonsense ramblings of an idiot who is completely untethered from the real world and how it functions.
Thank you Hussain for starting off my day with an excellent summary. As Iran is imminently about to fracture, the ever-present jostling for "baddest man in the whole damn (Middle East) town" is heating up. Naturally, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia cannot resist tipping their hands and making clear their malignant, obstructionist intents. It is immensely helpful when Nations cannot stop revealing their true intentions. Fortunately, all World Leaders sitting on the Board of Peace will be wearing their "big boy pants". When they act to prevent economic rehabilitation and coexistence in the Middle East, they will be reminded in the privacy of the conference room of their opportunities to choose living in the past VERSUS moving forward toward non-petroleum-based longevity. Some leaders will obstinately cling to past behaviors--they simply cannot help themselves. Economic coexistence is sustainable. As the Saudis and UAE come to terms with the subterfuge they experience in Yemen, their motivations to join the land of the economically-thriving living may or may not translate to rational actions. As that wise American Philosopher, Mr. Ron White, often states, "You can't fix stupid." And deliberately living in perpetual Middle East subterfuge is actually now the definition of "stupid" in the Merriam Dictionary. Gratefully, Gary
Very thoughtful and meaningful proposal. But it does require an ideological reframing that may be difficult for the Arabs around Israel to achieve. But when there is a will, there is a way. Let's hope somewhere in the Arabian desert there is enough will.