Bye Bye BDS

 BDS is the shorthand way to refer to the Boycott, Divesment, Sanctions effort run by anti-Israeli forces in certain countries.  Certainly, the Palestinians support it, but in the USA, its primary supporters are all left wing Democrats.  They promote a boycott of all Israeli companies.  They ask investors to sell stock in any Israeli enterprise (the divestment) and they also seek the imposition of sanctions on the Israeli economy.

BDS gained strength among some Democrats, particularly the Squad and its supporters.  For what it's worth the BLM movement supports BDS, although one has to wonder what Israel and the Palestinians have to do with the supposed systemic racism in America.

Tonight, however, it is pretty clear that the BDS movement is in tatters.  The Arab world (which is the supposed beneficiary of BDS) has obviously abandoned the core mechanism of BDS.  The United Arab Emirates, a major economic power on the Arabian Gulf normalized diplomatic and economic relations with Israel about a month ago.  Then Saudi Arabia relaxed its economic boycott of Israel by allowing flights from that country in its airspace.  Yesterday Bahrain, another rich Gulf state, announced normalization of diplomatic and economic relations with Israel.  Now tonight, Morocco announced that it was establishing an air link with Israel.  While it may be true that traffic on those flights will be limited for now due to the corona virus, this will eventually be an important economic link between the two countries.  It's like an avalanche of new economic ties between Israel and the Arab nations.

One has to wonder if the Democrats will continue to support BDS if the Arabs abandon it.  Will Biden finally denounce BDS?  Will Kamala Harris do that?  

My guess is that most of the far left Democrats won't even notice the change in the Middle East.  Pelosi called all these events a "distraction".  The greatest move towards peace in 25 years is a "distraction" according to Pelosi because it was brought about through the efforts of President Trump.  Unbelievable.