{"id":267830,"date":"2023-04-19T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=267830"},"modified":"2023-04-20T05:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T05:46:15","slug":"china-brings-peace-to-yemen-syria-and-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=267830","title":{"rendered":"China Brings Peace To Yemen, Syria And &#8230; Palestine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 April 18, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Peace is breaking out in the Middle East and the U.S. is pushed aside by more friendly actors.<\/p>\n<p>On March 10 the world was surprised with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/03\/mediated-by-china-iran-and-saudi-arabia-restore-ties-there-are-winners-and-losers.html\">China mediated deal<\/a> that restored ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There are winners and losers in this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Iran, which will now be even more able to break through the sanctions wall the U.S. has put up around it.<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia, which now will likely be able to end its disastrous and costly war on Yemen.<\/li>\n<li>China, for outplaying the U.S. State Department by achieving this.<\/li>\n<li>Iraq, Syria, Yemen as they will become more peaceful as the two middle powers influencing policies on their grounds end their rivalry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The losers are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Israel, because the chances for its attempts to get the U.S. into a war with Iran are now diminished. Its hoped for coalition with the Saudis will not come into being.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. for having been outplayed on its traditional &#8216;home grounds&#8217; in the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-Iran hawks everywhere.<\/li>\n<li>The Emirates for losing at least some of the sanction busting trade with Iran to Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8230;<br \/>\nReviving relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran will make a lot of new things possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That Iran and Saudi Arabia accepted China&#8217;s mediation is a recognition of Beijing&#8217;s new standing in world policies. That alone is enough reason for the White House to hate the deal.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/03\/chinas-prestigious-middle-east-deal-may-soon-see-challenges.html\">predicted<\/a> that the U.S. and Israel would do their best to sabotage the deal or at least make its implementation difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. sent CIA director Bill Burns to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/04\/peace-in-the-middle-east-thats-a-threat.html\">warn the Saudis off<\/a>. However the deal has held so far and the Saudis are repairing their relations with countries against which they previously waged wars. Yesterday a senior Saudi official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2023\/0417\/Saudis-Houthis-shake-hands-in-Yemen.-Peace-will-take-much-more\">visited Sanaa<\/a> and shook hands with Yemeni Houthi officials:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/04\/china-brings-peace-to-yemen-syria-and-palestine.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>China Brings Peace To Yemen, Syria And &#8230; Palestine?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a coincidence that those parts of the world where conflict once raged, are seeing peace return as U.S. influence declines?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267831,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267830\/revisions\/267831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}