Monday 6 July 2009

Israel Matzav: A convenient silence

A convenient silence

As I noted two weeks ago, in the July issue of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg suggests an alliance between the Jews and Sunni Islam against Iran.

The definitive Middle East cliché is, of course, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Well, it turns out that today, more than at any other time in the ruinous 100-year encounter between Arabs and Jews on the strip of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the two parties in the dispute have a common enemy: the Shia Persian Islamic Republic of Iran. President Obama’s skills and charisma just might bring Sunni Arabs and Israeli Jews together, but he will be helped inestimably if he considers that the road to peace runs not through Jerusalem but through Karbala. Consider the possibility of a grand, if necessarily implicit, Jewish-Sunni alliance as a gift to Obama from his predecessor.

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Israel Matzav: A convenient silence

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