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jmowreader

(50,601 posts) Fri May 19, 2017, 01:31 PM May 2017

Will Trump's "Arab NATO" destabilize the US-Israel relationship?

Trump wants to create a NATO-like alliance of all the Arab nations to go up against Iran. I see a lot of hazards for our relationship with Israel, in that all those countries would like nothing better than to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. (Several have it in their constitutions.) There are three reasons they won't do it now: Israel has a good army, no Arab nation has enough of an army to do it, and Israel has historically been backstopped by the US.

With an alliance of the Arab nations there will be enough firepower on their side to try it, and thanks to Orange Caligula passing Israeli intelligence to Russia the US-Israel bond is now tenuous.

Someone needs to stop that maniac before he destroys the Middle East.

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Will Trump's "Arab NATO" destabilize the US-Israel relationship? (Original Post) jmowreader May 2017 OP

Trump isnt capable or qualified to organize a day trip for his young son's 5th grade class. Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #1

It's Sunni vs Shia atreides1 May 2017 #2

This is just a publicity stunt to try to make Trump look like a leader. Doodley May 2017 #3

it's a slogan, not a meaningful effort. geek tragedy May 2017 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,151 posts)

1. Trump isnt capable or qualified to organize a day trip for his young son's 5th grade class.

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Fri May 19, 2017, 01:36 PM

May 2017

Anything he wants to do, by definition, should be looked at with great concern.

He has the mind AND intellect of a 12 yr old, very very spoiled child.

atreides1

(16,119 posts)

2. It's Sunni vs Shia

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Fri May 19, 2017, 01:37 PM

May 2017

The "Arab NATO" moniker is to make the idea acceptable! The majority of Muslim countries are Sunni. 68%-80% of Shia live in only four countries: Iran, Pakistan, India, Iraq (according to the Mapping the Global Muslim Population report from the Pew Forum).

This nothing more then using Sunni Arab nations as a proxy against Iran, in the same way that the US used Iraq!

Doodley

(9,176 posts)

3. This is just a publicity stunt to try to make Trump look like a leader.

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Fri May 19, 2017, 01:52 PM

May 2017

He has said we should take Iraq's oil. He has said we should kill the innocent family members of terrorists. We should waterboard and ban Muslims. We should have total disregard for international law, different treaties and the Geneva Conventions. And now he wants a Middle-East alliance, a peace-keeping alliance. Who the hell does he think would be their enemy?

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

4. it's a slogan, not a meaningful effort.

Reply to jmowreader (Original post)

Fri May 19, 2017, 01:55 PM

May 2017

There's already an Arab League, and it's not considered one of international diplomacy's success stories

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