If Saudi Arabia Can Make Peace with Israel, Why Not Pakistan?
Islamabad has much to gain, and much prejudice to overcome.
July 14, 2022
And the U.S. should discourage it from doing so.
In the past few years, several Sunni Arab states have taken steps toward restoring relations with Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which, having waged brutal and still ongoing war on its own subjects, became a pariah nation. Such signals of normalization also suggest a wavering in their willingness to stand up to Assad’s Iranian patrons. Jesse Marks and Caroline Rose examine the specific case of Jordan, which shares a border with Syria, and has seen the latter’s civil war pose threats to its stability—including an influx of refugees, attempts by Islamic State to expand into its territory, and the disruptive effects of the drug trade on which Assad now relies:
Islamabad has much to gain, and much prejudice to overcome.
What Islamism shares with the global left.
And the U.S. should discourage it from doing so.
What are they willing to give up in pursuit of inclusiveness?
“It would be quite funny ten years after the war if we Jews were to tell how we lived and what we ate and talked about here.”
In the past few years, several Sunni Arab states have taken steps toward restoring relations with Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which, having waged brutal and still ongoing war on its own subjects, became a pariah nation. Such signals of normalization also suggest a wavering in their willingness to stand up to Assad’s Iranian patrons. Jesse Marks and Caroline Rose examine the specific case of Jordan, which shares a border with Syria, and has seen the latter’s civil war pose threats to its stability—including an influx of refugees, attempts by Islamic State to expand into its territory, and the disruptive effects of the drug trade on which Assad now relies:
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