Saif al-Arab
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Well I do know that Israel had relations with arab nations and that it was kept under wraps. But I wasnt aware Egypt maintained diplomatic relations with Israel.
I would only be happy if Middle East calms down in coming days...which looks very unlikely right now.
@qamar1990 I am tagging you here because I think you need to read this.
From my experience traveling in the Arab world (I have been lucky to visit Morocco in the West and Oman in the East and many countries in between), living in the Arab world, having family there and relatives (in more than just 1 Arab country), speaking with Arabs in the diaspora in France, Denmark, USA etc. too the main obstacle for an open peace agreement/settlement with Israel and the Arab world is obviously bound in the Palestinian question and how to solve that.
I suggest that you read about Arab-Jewish and Jewish-Arab relations prior to the creation of Israel and the first mass migrations of Arab and European Jews into what was back then a British Mandate.
I don't feel in any way that there is a genuine hatred based on race let alone religion. At most only the Islamist segment/radical Jewish/Zionist segment are using this tired argument. Just like certain Arab regimes in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt (when ruled by so-called Arab nationalists) taught children in school books etc. that Jews were descendants of apes and monkeys and when local Syrians, Egyptians etc. saw the Israeli prisoners of war they realized that they looked just like other humans. Thus the state propaganda failed. Back then information was scarce for the average Syrian or Egyptian living in a village for instance outside of the radio and local clerics who followed the regime line like many do today if not most.
The younger generation that has access to information by just doing a few searches on the internet, who use social media, that communicate with the entire world like we do here on PDF know what is right and what is wrong mostly. I could write more about this but I will leave it at that.
It's a political crisis more than anything related to religion or race. It cannot be race as both Arabs and Jews are Semites nor religion as both Islam and Judaism are Abrahamic/Semitic religions. In theory it could but it would make both sides extremely idiotic.
I have high hopes of that ending one day when the Palestinian question has been resolved. The biggest obstacles as I see it are Islamists/radical Zionists/Orthodox Jews. Most others want to find a solution/settlement to this tiring conflict.
Yes, Egypt AND Jordan have official diplomatic relations with Israel and vice versa. As the only Arab states from what I remember.
Also if I recall (might be wrong here so better to google it if possible) then Morocco, Tunisia, Oman and Qatar have recognized Israel as a state but I don't believe that they have open official diplomatic relations with Israel. At most covert.
P.S. Those are my personal views based on interaction with the common man and woman in the Arab world and among the Arab diaspora, literature, television etc. Others might have different views but if you ask the random person on the street (especially the educated ones) then they would tell you pretty much the same.
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