The United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to work toward establishing full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt, for now, Israel’s controversial plans to annex occupied West Bank land sought by Palestinians for their future state.
If the UAE establishes formal ties with Israel, it would be only the third Arab country — after Jordan and Egypt — to recognize Israel, and the first Gulf nation to do so.
Thursday’s declaration, the officials involved said, was a prelude to delegations from Israel and the UAE meeting in the coming weeks to forge bilateral agreements in an array of sectors, including tourism, security, telecommunications, technology, energy and healthcare.
Direct flights would be established as well as reciprocal embassies — although it was likely the UAE would go to Tel Aviv and not the disputed holy city of Jerusalem, claimed by both Israel and the Palestinians and controversially recognized as Israeli by Trump, the only world leader to do so.
The rational people of the middle east, arabs, non regime Iranians, are coming to the realization (or have done so for some time) that they are being held hostage by the Palestinian cause, which costs blood, money and leads nowhere.
ReplyDeleteThey know that The Shiite regime of Iran are rashaim, and destroying the arab world and killing anyone who gets in their way - syria, lebanon, Yemen etc.
They also know that Jews are good people, and that Israel is a modern state interested in science, agriculture, water technology, health, arts, culture.
The Palestinian cause has nothing to offer them. It kills. It creats wars, terror, refugees, endless violence and instability. Also the big powers such as Egypt learned this a long time ago, that war is not a good occupation.
The world is changing. The left are just bitter because they stillbuy into the palestinian myth, becasue Obama betrayed Saudi, because Carter lost Iran. Because the left wing are now the real source of anti-semitism. Because America is so bad, that today a Jew is safer walking in Moscow than in New York or anywhere else in the USA.