SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

THE MIDEAST IS CHANGING – FROM TIMES OF ISRAEL:    In an unprecedented plea for regional reconciliation, over 300 prominent Iraqis called for their country to normalize ties with Israel on Friday night.  “We demand full diplomatic relations with the State of Israel…and a new policy of normalization based on people-to-people relations with the citizens of that country,” said Wissam al-Hardan, who commanded Sunni tribal militias that aligned with the United States to fight al-Qaeda in 2005 in response to the power vacuum that followed the 2003 American invasion.  Iraq has officially been at war with Israel since the Jewish state was founded in 1948. Iraqi soldiers have fought in three successive Arab wars against Israel. Saddam Hussein’s secret nuclear weapons program alarmed Israel, which ultimately destroyed the Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981, and in 1991, the Iraqi dictator fired dozens of Scud missiles at Tel Aviv and Haifa in an attempt to draw Israel into the Gulf War.  At Friday’s conference in the Kurdistan region, Iraqi participants called on their country’s leaders to end the state of war and join the so-called Abraham Accords. The agreements, formulated by the administration of former US President Donald Trump, were signed on the White House lawn in September 2020 between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Morocco and Sudan signed normalization agreements with Israel in the ensuing months.  This is a major advance, and a tribute to the diplomacy of the Trump administration, which initiated the Abraham accords.  Compare please with the anti-Israel lunacy of the left wing of the Democratic Party.  No mention of peace.  No mention of the Abraham Accords.  Only relentless assaults on Israel.  These radicals are from a different time, and history has passed them by.

September 25, 2021