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Trump Negotiates Historic Israel-UAE Peace Deal
President Trump achieved a diplomatic milestone Thursday, leading the United Arab Emirates and Israel to establish a full normalization of relations. This is more bad news for the Iranian regime as well as the dead-end supporters of Obama’s nuclear deal.
“The historic diplomatic breakthrough will advance peace in the Middle East region,” according to a joint statement, “and is a testament to the bold diplomacy and vision of the three leaders and the courage of the United Arab Emirates and Israel to chart a new path that will unlock the great potential in the region.”
To achieve the deal, Israel will suspend annexing parts of the West Bank and will instead focus on improving ties throughout the Middle East.
“This shows us the dramatic change that we made in the status of Israel in the Middle East,” Netanyahu said. “For decades Israel was always symbolized as an enemy…but today many countries see Israel as a strategic ally.”
“Peace between the Arabs and the Israelis is Iran’s worst nightmare,” said Brian Hook, the special envoy for Iran. Hook leads Trump’s full-spectrum pressure campaign against Iran.
The UAE joins Egypt and Jordan as the third Muslim-majority nation to normalize relations with Israel and is the first Gulf Arab state to do so. This will push other regional players such as Oman, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia to consider following their lead.
Bahrain, a close ally of Saudi Arabia, immediately welcomed the accord and praised US leadership in securing it.
While a peace accord should make everyone happy, many Democrats are glum. “We won’t be fooled by another Trump/Netanyahu deal” anti-Israel congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) tweeted. “We won’t celebrate Netanyahu for not stealing land he already controls in exchange for a sweetheart business deal. The heart of the issue has never been planned, formal annexation, but ongoing, devastating apartheid.”
Iran deal architect/van driver Ben Rhodes claimed “the agreement enshrines what has been the emerging status quo in the region for a long time (including the total exclusion of Palestinians). Dressed up as an election eve achievement from two leaders who want Trump to win.”
The son of John “Give Peace a Chance” Lennon captured their intransigence well.
Hooray for the Peace deal between Israel and UAE! Wait…what? Trump negotiated it? I meant Boooo! I hate peace, peace is bad! Us dems have always been against peace deals right? Yeah that’s the ticket.
— Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) August 13, 2020
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Published in Foreign Policy
Trump is part of the Trump Administration, as is Secretary Mike Pompeo.
They did well, as Carter did with Egypt and Clinton did with Jordan. I am all for praising the good, and movement towards peace in the Middle East.
But do you think President Biden would take America’s Middle East policy back to the Obama plan of tilting towards Iran and their efforts to become a nuclear nation, and do you think that might have any slightly negative consequences for stability in the region?
They probaly won’t show their hand on that until after the election. In addition, the UAE, KSA, and Israel are all facing the facts that (barring the total transformation of the Democrat Party) if not in January, at some time in the next decade or two the Democrats will be in charge again and that China is an increasingly major player in the region.
Gloating is only necessary ( or fun) when your opponents are completely intransigent and refuse to give credit.
I think we are pretty much in that territory.🤪
And you know what? He personally made the deal from the ninth hole in Bedminster! – subject to fact-check, but who cares at this point…
Good Job Trump.
See, even when Trump does something well, you refuse to give him credit. When something goes wrong, you give him the blame.
It is not in good faith.
BUt you know what, your man Biden, his administration would not have done this.
So you are still celebrating something that you don’t really want to happen, because you want Biden in office.
The fact you use Reagan as an avatar is a insult to the great man. It is a lie, a fiction you wrap yourself in to bolster your false claim of being a conservative, when all you advocate for is Democrat victories.
No. Gary’s response just shows how fake he is.
Gary cannot even admit it is a Trump win.
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Just be yourself.
Take the win and let’s stop trying to make Gary parse his supportive statement. An ardent NeverTrumper made a gracious remark that could not have been entirely enjoyable to post. It should have been received at least as graciously as it was made.
Thanks, thats what I was trying to get at.
From Tel Aviv, the flag of the UAE:
Ok, if that isn’t photoshopped, I’m stunned.
It may not be. See Comment #41 which is the flag of the UAE.
Let’s take the win.
This makes the deal even better.
All the benefits already described, plus we back-hand Goat Boy.