(May 11, 2021 at 1:46 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(May 11, 2021 at 12:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If you don’t think Israel is already a ‘superpower in the region’, you’re very much mistaken.
Boru
It's really not.
Iran + Turkey just pulled the rug from underneath it.
Turkey has a big acceptance in the hearts of most Sunni citizens in the region, while Iran has acceptance in the Shiite-dominated parts -like Iraq-.
Israel is trapped in a tight corner, that's why it tried its best to expand with "Trump's" help, Trump even enforced a public Normalization between his Arab allies and Israel:
https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/trum...nd-bahrain
That move is what Israel wanted to escape its isolation in the region. A superpower is an accepted body just like the "U.S"; but Israel is still viewed by the majority of the region's populations as an "extreme, terrorist regime", except some dictatorships like the U.A.E and Saudi Arabia.
A superpower doesn't need "Trump's" aid in that humiliating way.
Israel has the ability to destroy - literally - any other power (or combination of powers) in the Middle East and to do so without outside help. If that doesn't qualify it as a regional superpower, what does?
Boru
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