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JD Vance’s Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran’s Growing Strength
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The Post-American Middle East: Five New Powers and Israel's Isolation
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Weichert lays out the geopolitical architecture taking shape after the war. The Abraham Accords, once a genuine framework for Arab-Israeli normalization, are effectively dead. The new order will be defined by five powers: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan (with its nuclear umbrella), Egypt (the largest economy in Africa with possibly the strongest conventional military in the Muslim world), and Turkey (with its impressive indigenous defense industrial base, as evidenced by the Kaan fighter jet). Weichert cites former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus's admission that Israel couldn't build an F-35 independently — while Turkey can. These five powers will form a new post-American axis, and Israel's position is the mirror image of what Iran's was before the war: isolated, pressured on all sides, with its only powerful ally now openly frustrated with it. Tucker and Weichert are both struck by the symmetry — all of Israel's ambitions have whipped around and become their opposites.
The Abraham Accords are dead. In their place, five regional powers will define the new Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey. The US-Israel axis that once anchored the region has been replaced by a bloc hostile or indifferent to Israel — and the transition has already begun.
Weichert predicts a post-American Middle East will be defined by 5 powers: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey.
Israel sent a cruise missile into a building in Doha during peace talks — under diplomatic cover — killing a Qatari security agent, missing Hamas leadership, and becoming the first Israeli state to strike a GCC country. In that moment, the Arab states stopped seeing Iran as the bigger threat and started seeing Israel.
