Seriously. Give the Trump admin their due, the UAE/Bahrain/Israel deal is historic and very significant. The only other Arab nations to recognize Israel and formalize relations other than Egypt, which was more than 40 years ago, and Jordan, which was still 30 years ago and honestly not as significant given Jordan's geopolitics.
Like the Egyptian peace deal, it's just another step in regional stability, not a solution, but it is a big step. It's worthy of bi-partisan praise even in an election year.
No one has really pointed to negatives from it, other than the fact that it further solidifies Israel as a member of the international community (as if a nuclear power nation with strong Western support was just going to go away) which is a negative to some.
No, the main criticism today is that it is a "distraction from Covid", and that the signing ceremony wasn't distanced enough. Seriously, that's the lead for the anti-Trump media.
Such a move by Pelosi and the media just undermines their position, as it does when the GOP does it of course.
I don't really care to get into a debate about Trump and raw politics with this. Two things interest me:
1) The agreement itself, which is another example of the US buying peace as we did with Egypt and later Jordan, which in the end has proven to be a sound strategy, and
2) the complete lack of a "Fourth Estate" of media in the US, which is deeply threatening to good government.
IF the media is going to be hellbent to cover for one side and belittle the other regardless of reality, as we've seen with the Hillary email scandal, the Russian investigation, and things like this which should be seen as a US foreign policy victory on a bipartisan basis, then what hope is there that they will keep politicians of "their" party in check from the corruption, nepotism and back dealing that is such a threat to any government?
Real journalism would report honestly and hold everyone's feet to the fire, but those days are long gone, and it leads to the kinds of abuses we have seen with Hillary Clinton. Government devices destroyed, tens of thousands of emails deleted mysteriously with no backups, now a dozen or more phones wiped with the Mueller team with the most flimsy of excuses, etc.
Those are fundamental threats to good government. There's a reason federal employees have background checks and mounds of procedures to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. It's so we can have transparent government.
That is largely enforced by the media, who will be the people to have the time and energy and drive to file FOIA requests and do the legwork to hold people accountable.
This kind of attitude we see today is indicative of the conversion of the mainstream media into a propaganda organization. They no longer fulfill their role in American government.
My only political side note is that anyone who cares significantly about our support of Israel sure has an obvious choice in this race. It's not even close compared to the Obama/biden years, or the Bush II years for that matter. Not since Reagan has a US President shown as much support for Israel, yet managed to keep our Arab allied relationships and even in this case improve on them.
that's a tricky balance, and Trump and his people like Pompeo deserve some credit.
The Media OTOH deserves complete derision, for this and their entire approach to holding government accountable. It doesn't work if you don't do it to everyone.
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