http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/02/5043 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:40:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.yourish.com/2008/07/02/5043/comment-page-1#comment-32549 Michael Lonie Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:12:09 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5043#comment-32549 Iraq risks an even worse diplomatic isolation in the region than it has already if it makes peace with Israel, let alone an alliance. It seems quite likely to me that there will be informal and clandestine cooperation between the countries, at best, for a long time to come, not not formal or public cooperation. A peace treaty may come later. An open alliance? Not even Jordan has dared that, and Jordan is more or less a potential prey object for every other Arab state plus Iran. Iraq risks an even worse diplomatic isolation in the region than it has already if it makes peace with Israel, let alone an alliance. It seems quite likely to me that there will be informal and clandestine cooperation between the countries, at best, for a long time to come, not not formal or public cooperation. A peace treaty may come later. An open alliance? Not even Jordan has dared that, and Jordan is more or less a potential prey object for every other Arab state plus Iran.

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