I can certainly understand why Israel would like to de-rail any normalization of relations within the Islamic world. The Levant is the land bridge between Asia and Africa. Hilaire Belloc, a French-English historian and writer (1870-1953) argued that the West has long underestimated the Islamic world as a culture backward and stagnant and that less than 100 years before the American Declaration in Independence, the Islamic world had better armies and weapons than the Western world and there was no reason why Islam could not reemerge as a great world power under the right leadership. Belt and Road Initiative?
I can certainly understand why Israel would like to de-rail any normalization of relations within the Islamic world. The Levant is the land bridge between Asia and Africa. Hilaire Belloc, a French-English historian and writer (1870-1953) argued that the West has long underestimated the Islamic world as a culture backward and stagnant and that less than 100 years before the American Declaration in Independence, the Islamic world had better armies and weapons than the Western world and there was no reason why Islam could not reemerge as a great world power under the right leadership. Belt and Road Initiative?