Author: Robert Rabil

Short presentation on the Israel-UAE Agreement. I argue that though the peace agreement is a byproduct of the desire to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict; nevertheless it was mainly driven by realpolitik far from the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and more specifically the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Please forgive couple of editorial and unintended mistakes.

I vividly remember talking to my younger brother Freddy about leaving Lebanon when I was ten years old. I could not explain why I had this gnawing feeling harrowing my heart about leaving the people and country that I loved. Couple of years later when the civil war broke out in 1975, this feeling became subliminally couched in the amplified socio-political and sectarian grievances that I, at one and the same time, rejected and embraced.

The end of the civil war, in principle, has been premised on an equitable redistribution of confessional power in the system. In practice, however, the end of the civil war marked Syrian occupation of the country until the withdrawal of its troops in 2005.