{"id":6726,"date":"2020-09-17T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2020-09-17T00:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T03:06:13","slug":"he-may-have-a-nasty-character-he-may-call-some-countries-shitholes-he-may-be-vulgar-with-women-but-lets-admit-it-today-he-succeeded-in-making-history-in-the-mid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/he-may-have-a-nasty-character-he-may-call-some-countries-shitholes-he-may-be-vulgar-with-women-but-lets-admit-it-today-he-succeeded-in-making-history-in-the-mid\/","title":{"rendered":"He may have a nasty character, he may call some countries \u201cshitholes\u201d, he may be vulgar with women\u2026 but let\u2019s admit it: Today, he succeeded in making history in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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https:\/\/apnews.com\/7544b322a254ebea1693e387d83d9d8b<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned in the article above, Israel and two Arab\ncountries, UAE and Bahrein, signed \u201chistoric diplomatic pacts\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if the media is usually mostly biased against Mr.\nTrump, always making fun of him (there is material, one must say\u2026), President\nTrump did something good for humanity today: PEACE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some may say ok but the timing is meant to help making\nhim good before elections. Well, bravo for his administration for being smart\nenough to arrange the timing of the announcement now, to work to his advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some write: Well, the UAE already had ties with Israel\nbut secretly. Well, this relationship is now out of the closet. It takes much\ncourage to do so in the Middle East\u2026 A HUGE taboo has been broken today (as\neveryone usually hates Israel). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those deals will change the course of history at so\nmany levels. Bambi can think of research collaborations that could benefit\ngenerations of trainees across sectors. We can think of business deals that\nwould generate prosperity to all the countries involved. On the security front,\nit may help coordination among them, for sure. It will perhaps impress Iran\nenough to stop its destructive influence in the region. Who knows, one day,\nIran may be invited to make peace with the United States. Hopefully, all this\nwill translate on the ground with better days for all the innocent populations\nin Iran itself, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf countries, Irak, Lebanon, Syria,\nPalestine, and in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bambi is writing all this, without forgetting the injustice triggered by the creation of the State of Israel, to the poor Palestinians\u2026 and, by extension, to all of us in the Arab world. especially the neighbouring Lebanon in which the original conflict has spilled over. This being said, we are in a new era now, time for peace. Time to move forward in life.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is that the Palestinians also have corruption like Lebanese politicians. They also have an Islamist party that is being instrumentalized by Iran (just like in Lebanon). The leader of this party, called Hamas<\/em>, went to Beirut recently to meet with Mr. Nasrallah (Hezbollah<\/em>). He also met with folks in the Palestinian camps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether Israel or Palestine (or Hezbollah or Iran),\nall these entities have often given Bambi the impression of validating their own\nexistence with the hate of the other entity. They cannot exist without hating\nthe other, in other terms. Well, today, we can perhaps allow ourselves to dream\npeace, even if it will not be comprehensive and as just as we would have liked\nit to be at one point in time (land for peace\u2026 now it is peace for prosperity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can we just call it peace for the sake of peace? As\nhuman beings, we have the right to live in a peaceful country. We have the\nright to be able to say: Enough of wars, enough of hate, no?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is Bambi\u2019s hope that Palestine will stop boycotting\nthe Trump administration and will consider direct negotiations of peace with\nIsrael. The latter must show respect to the Palestinians by stopping any new\ncolonization and surely annexation (the latter seems to be the case now,\nbravo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who knows? One day, we may see the two states of\nIsrael and Palestine living in peace next to each other. Bambi would love (have\nloved?) to see Jerusalem as the capital of both states. Not from a religious\nperspective. She does not care about that, despite the faith in her heart. It\nis more from a citizen\u2019s rights perspective. Period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, Bambi\u2019s nephews and nieces will hopefully live\nlong enough to see a sovereign and prosperous Lebanon living in peace with all\nits neighbours, namely both Syria and Israel, while being in peace with both\nIran and all the Arab countries. Of course, also having enriching diplomatic\nrelations with all the European countries, the USA, and with all the countries\nof the world (including China). In Lebanon, they call this concept, \u201cpositive\nneutrality<\/em>\u201d. Only the latter can guarantee safety to tiny yet beautiful\nLebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude this post, it takes much courage to extend\nyour hand to your former enemy. Bravo for doing it for the sake of the children\nof \u201cAbraham<\/em>\u201d (as per the name of the peace deals)\u2026 and the children who\nare not related to Abraham<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we say in Arabic and in Hebrew: Mabrouk & Mazal\nTov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/apnews.com\/7544b322a254ebea1693e387d83d9d8b As mentioned in the article above, Israel and two Arab countries, UAE and Bahrein, signed \u201chistoric diplomatic pacts\u201d. Even if the media is usually mostly biased against Mr. Trump, always making fun of him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6729,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}