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The Arab World Begins to Realize that Israel Is Not the Enemy
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) David Suissa - For more than 50 years, diplomatic geniuses kept telling the world that "the key to peace in the Middle East is to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The convenient corollary was that the solution was in Israel's hands, which kept the Jewish state constantly on the receiving end of global condemnation. This camouflaged the plain truth that the deepest ills of the region have absolutely nothing to do with Israel or the Palestinian conflict. The decision of the UAE to go public with its open relationship with Israel represents a paradigm shift as the dreaded Zionist enemy was publicly legitimized and validated by a powerful Arab nation. The Zionist state is suddenly turning into a source for solutions and hope rather than hatred. How can anti-Zionist groups like the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement continue to undermine Israel if Arab countries announce that it's good for the health of their societies to do business with the Zionist state?