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Beijing will pay for backing Iran, Palestinians should offer a map and other commentary

Conservative: Beijing Will Pay for Backing Iran

China “has for decades promoted itself as a nonjudgmental alternative to the U.S. and the West,” willing doing commerce with anyone. But with the war in the Persian Gulf, “that posture is now collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions,” contends UK Member of Parliament Tom Tugendhat at The Wall Street Journal. Beijing has “provided Iran with satellite imagery, components and intelligence” to attack targets in Gulf countries that have “helped Iran destroy” their refineries and docks and even kill civilians. “The Gulf Arab monarchies aren’t naive about great-power politics”; “relationships with China will change.” Across the Arabian Peninsula, “assumptions are already shifting,” and “China is no longer the indispensable partner unburdened by a history of war in the region.”

Israel beat: Palestinians Should Offer a Map

There is ample “proof that over the years Israel would have accepted the two-state solution,” notes Commentary’s Seth Mandel, but no proof “the Palestinian leadership would accept” it. Israel has published “end-game maps”; the “Palestinian leadership” too should be challenged to “produce an acceptable map.” But for now we still “don’t know if the Palestinians would be willing to end the conflict.” The Oct. 7 attacks were “aimed at torpedoing negotiations seeking a broad Arab-Israeli........

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