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MeisterEckhart
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A key factor that fuels Israel's continuing warming relations with the region's Sunni states is that beyond the, relatively minuscule, contested territory that Israel claims as historically its own, it has no interest in expanding into Arab lands and no interest in weighing into the Sunni-Shia divide.
Israel's respect for, and security of, the Al-Aqsa mosque and The Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra) has, over the years, eased anxieties that Israeli rule in the West Bank will threaten them.
Arab-Israelis, despite tensions with Jewish Israelis, enjoy a standard of living and freedoms beyond those that most Arabs enjoy in Arab-ruled countries - further confirming that all Arabs would fare better via peace with Israel than with war.
And, finally, Israel is perceived as a powerful nation - something that commands respect throughout Asia - that an Arab-Israeli alliance would elevate the prestige, and enhance the authority and influence, of all states so aligned.
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