ANALYSIS | WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD
The Crumbling Pillars of Biden’s Middle East ‘Doctrine’
The Biden administration thought it could ignore the bad in the Middle East. Now his Middle East doctrine is collapsing.
"...A few boosters tried to argue that the accords could help Palestinians by giving Arab states greater leverage over Israeli decision-making. That was wishful thinking (witness their lack of influence today). The more plausible argument for the deal was that normalization would help cement a new security architecture in the region.
The first two countries to recognize Israel in 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, shared Israel’s antipathy toward Iran. So does Saudi Arabia. America’s hope was that this sense of mutual threat would cement a military-and-security alliance. If Arab states and Israel could integrate their missile defenses, for example, they could protect the region from Iran and its proxies without having to rely on American help. Perhaps one day they could go further and form an “Arab NATO”.
That was always a fantasy. . .
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