The Near East’s Dirtiest Open Secret

Wealthy Muslim nations could have, years ago, and could now, pour billions into the West Bank and Gaza and they do not do it because a sad non-secret in the Near East is that  —  just strike up a conversation with some Uber/Lyft drivers who have lived in the States a good while and it can pour out —  wealthy Arabs look down on the poorest ones in the most terrible ways that other regions’ upper classes sneer at other working-class peoples. (Solidarity? No.) Too, because those wealthiest Muslim nations are comfortable using their poorest co-religionists as thorns in the side of Israel and as canon-fodder.

I am certain were that to change, were all nations/entities there recognise Israel formally, Israel, too, would contribute to ongoing regional economic uplift for Gaza and for the West Bank  because it would be in Israel’s interest to do that in the immediate, middle, and long-terms.

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