Saturday, September 12, 2020

Another male-dominated kleptocracy in the Middle East formalizes the informal relations it has had with Israel

 So, here we go again. Another kleptocracy, which resembles more a male-dominated corporation than an actual nation, has cut a deal with Israel.

Bahrain is a "nation" much like the United Arab Emirates, as I wrote about here.

Amnesty International explains what life is like there for the non-elite, and sometimes the elite who speak up, while Wikipedia explains the demographics, i.e. how more than half the people in the "nation" are migrant workers.

Both the UAE and Bahrain have been helping Saudi Arabia commit a slaughter of Yemenites, and both the UAE and Bahrain have had informal trade relations with Israel for years.  

These deals are desperate moves, courtesy of Netanyahu and, less directly, Trump. If Trump thinks these two deals are going to help him get more than 30% of the American-Jewish vote in November, he is back to snorting Adderral.