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The proactive diplomacy of President Donald Trump is proceeding steadily on multiple fronts. The very fact that he is moving on multiple fronts and breaking the taboos that have hobbled international political life is a good omen. The sanctioning tariffs seem to open up the fray for negotiations on the outside and for renewed investment dynamics on the inside.
The resumption of the Abraham Accords dynamic and the head-on confrontation with Iran and its fledgling geopolitical platforms have proven effective and await further strategic and political offensives to finish off the fallacies of the Iranian murderous dystopia. His bold diplomatic offensive has changed the political scripts of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States and set the course for tackling regional conflicts nurtured on ideological fallacies and immobilizing power politics.
The Saudi-stifled diplomacy seems to move away from the stalemated regional conflicts feeding on ideological fallacies and terrorism. Its well-calculated diplomatic moves are headed in the right direction at a time when the whole regional dynamic has changed after the Israeli destruction of the operational strategic platforms that allowed the Islamic regime to thrive on the back of destructive power politics for almost two decades.
The shrewd and well-devised Israeli counteroffensive has set the track for alternative strategic and political courses all along the Middle East. It’s no coincidence that the concurring effects of both the Israeli counterstrategy and the pioneering diplomacy of the Trump administration are creating a new political momentum to finish off the state of institutionalized immobilism in the greater Middle East. The Israeli military feats have opened up the path for a new diplomacy that breaks away from a whole legacy of stifled political dynamics, stymied political mediations and international accords that could have buried decades of destructive power politics and ideological blinders.
It’s about time for Palestinians to move past the deadweight legacy of ideological obstructionism and pathetic instrumentation by Arab and Muslim power politics and opt for open-ended negotiations with Israel to find a working solution based on mutual recognition and working statehood. The disastrous outcomes of the Hamas strategic and political courses were aptly characterized by President Mahmoud Abbas as criminal undertakings that inflicted appalling suffering on the Gaza district while catering to the ideological falsehoods, the corruption of its leaders who were literally dismissive of the intended humanitarian disasters driven by the human shields strategy, and the subservience to Iranian power politics.
Hamas and its acolytes should be unabashedly neutralized, let alone annihilated, if we were to oversee a new political dynamic. Any other option partakes of the conventional falsehoods that have created the embedding for the criminal victimization strategy and its appalling tragedies. Otherwise, Israel has to capitalize on its successful strategizing to curb messianic extremists and reopen the channels of diplomacy to finalize a conclusive peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
The new Syrian political equation has to overcome its ideological burdens and engage decisively with Saudi diplomacy and its openings, which led to the dismantling of the US sanctions and to the rehabilitation of Syria’s international status. Syria is experiencing for the first time the possibility of dealing with the Western liberal democracies. The French, Saudi and Turkish coordinated moves with the American diplomacy are offering Syria, for the first time in its history, the chance of successful political and economic reforms that put it on the road to peace and post-war reconstruction.
Ahmad al-Sharaa is offered a golden opportunity while his coalition of international jihadists is trying to preempt the normalization course from taking hold. His clumsy and shortsighted approach to the ethno-national question in Syria should come to an end decisively. There is no more time for procrastination and political waffling if Syria is to safeguard the chances of recovery and progressive reconciliation and reconstruction. No more room for political hindsight, ideological debilitation and double-dealing.
The case of Lebanon is tragically illustrative of the hostage-taking policies attempted by Arab and Muslim power politics, Third World leftism and the ravaging effects of Iranian power politics. Lebanon has no chance to oversee the end of its enduring nightmares unless it capitalizes on the new Israeli strategic and political dynamics to do away with the shackles of the long-standing political prostration induced by the domination politics and the systematic battering of its sovereignty.
The ludicrous attempt of the newly established executive to condone domination politics and their recycled ideological frauds is hazardous. The executive should make it explicit to Hezbollah and its Iranian mentor that political and military extraterritoriality have no more place, and they cannot usurp the constitutional coverage provided by the Lebanese government anymore. The beginning of a new era cannot allow for fake political interims that betray the ideological blinders of an inconsistent and incompetent cabinet and the lack of resolve of an inhibited presidency.
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