Look at Elliott Abrams pose as a Middle East expert: and how Zionists really heart Gulf regimes

I love it when non-Middle East experts, like this guy, try to pose as Middle East experts because they embarrass themselves:  "The monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, have some genuine legitimacy, as do the Gulf states as well. They are less repressive and more legitimate than the now-overthrown false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts, and rubber-stamp parliaments. Unlike the republics of fear, these monarchies do not have histories of bloody repression and jails filled with political prisoners. (Bahrain is an exception, for the Sunni dynasty ruling over a Shia population always had less legitimacy — and may now have fatally compromised whatever was left it by bringing in Saudi and other foreign troops to crush demonstrations.)"  He does not know that one of the most cruel forms of regime oppression took place by Omani regime, not mentioning various Bahraini and Saudi regime oppression over the years.