By Mark Donig
What would true Mideast peace look like today? Would it take form in an Iran that ends its gross human-rights violations, historically compromises on its nuclear ambitions and no longer announces it has “the desire, capacity and force to annihilate the Zionist regime”—a fellow UN member state? A decimation of Hamas and Hezbollah? A just and lasting agreement to end the Syrian civil war? An Egyptian government that no longer stifles, oppresses, or sentences to death those who have ideological differences with state policies?
Would it be found in a Saudi Arabia that no longer suppresses the rights of women? An end to more than three decades of bombs exploding in Beirut? An eradication of Al Qaeda sympathizers operating in Syria, Iraq and the Sinai? A sense of economic and political opportunity for citizens across the region? Economic, diplomatic, and political cooperation between Sunni, Shia, Kurd, Christian and Jewish peoples and states? Or the long overdue emergence of governing bodies that feel the need to respond to their people’s massive environmental and demographic challenges, rather than continue to simply exploit their sectarian and tribal identities?
Source: nationalinterest.org
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