Middle East: who is with whom waiting for the worst

In the Middle East the opposing sides are more and more markedly delineated and it is not said to be a good sign

by Rights Reporter

Note: Translation

It is always difficult to interpret what happens in the Middle East. President Trump decides to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and a huge uprising of the Arab world is expected, but it does not happen. In Iran there are rioting against the regime and it is expected that the Saudi block (which also includes Egypt) will take advantage of it to ride the Persian dissent and instead from Riyadh, from Cairo and from the Gulf capitals everything is silent.

In some respects, the Iranian uprisings have helped to outline more clearly the alignments in the Middle East with Turkey, which is now openly on the side of the Iranian regime in spite of the divergent views on Syria, Qatar which closely follows what Erdoğan and he even grants him a military base on his territory, the Muslim Brotherhood (supported by Turkey and Qatar) that seeks to undermine the Egyptian government and then indirectly the Saudi one by leaking records that prove that Egypt, in accordance with the Gulf regimes, has sought to get Trump's decision on Jerusalem to be digested and that he even advised the Palestinians to be content with Ramallah as the capital of the future Palestinian state.

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