He claimed that the relationship between the two leaders during secret negotiations, which have played out over the past six weeks, “was like love.” He predicted, “Now that the ice has been broken, I expect more Arab and Muslim countries will follow the United Arab Emirates’s lead.” Kushner, who oversaw the Trump Middle East peace plan, said that a couple other nations were “upset that they weren’t first.” Bahrain, another Gulf sheikhdom, immediately congratulated the U.A.E. “This deal is a significant step toward building a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Middle East,” Trump told reporters, after a three-way call with Netanyahu and bin Zayed. The deal may signal the formal creation of an anti-Iran bloc that has been quietly building for years, possibly with more states to join. And, in an example of the old adage about the enemy of your enemy being your friend, the conservative Muslim kingdoms in the Gulf have increasingly found common cause with the Jewish leadership in Israel. As enmities have shifted, so has the diplomatic energy.
The main fault line in the Middle East has also shifted away from the Arab-Israeli conflict to tensions between the Arabs and predominantly Persian Iran. They no longer want to be held back by what they see as Palestinian rejectionism.” and Saudi Arabia in particular, with the Palestinian leadership and their cause. The agreement is “a visible demonstration of the fatigue of some Arab leaders, in the U.A.E. “The conflict is decidedly less important to leaders in the region,” Natan Sachs, the director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, told me. After decades of dominating and defining tensions across the Middle East, the Palestinians are no longer a pressing priority they also seem increasingly irrelevant to the region’s trendlines. Yet the deal also underscores how, for Palestinians, a state-and a broader peace-is still hauntingly elusive more than a quarter century after the Oslo Accords outlined principles for the creation of their own country. for a “brave and badly needed act of statesmanship.” Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee, welcomed the deal as “a historic step to bridge the deep divides of the Middle East.” He praised the U.A.E. The new accord represents a diplomatic breakthrough for President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as both face mounting political hurdles at home. The first was the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Again, not likely.ĭubbed the Abraham Accords, the agreement is only the third time Israel has won recognition from one of the twenty-two Arab states. In a briefing for reporters, Jared Kushner also predicted that the agreement will undermine jihadi extremism. In what may prove to be premature conjecture, the White House described the deal as “a major breakthrough for Muslims throughout the world who wish to come in peace to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque,” in Jerusalem, because they will be able to fly directly from Abu Dhabi to Tel Aviv and “be welcomed.” The idea that Israel will issue large numbers of visas to Muslims from countries long considered hostile to pray at a mosque on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, may be wishful thinking. The Israeli President, Reuven Rivlin, invited the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, to visit.
In Tel Aviv, the city hall lit up with side-by-side flags of Israel and the U.A.E. The surprise deal-expected to be signed at a White House ceremony in the coming weeks-will include opening embassies, trade and technology exchanges, direct flights and tourism, and coöperation on energy, security, and intelligence.
On Thursday, the White House announced a historic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, an oil-rich sheikhdom and long-time ally of the Palestinians, to normalize diplomatic relations. Then Arafat asked, “God, how long will it be before there is a state for my people in Palestine?” And God cried. Brezhnev then asked, “How long will it be before the whole world is Communist?” God replied, “Two hundred years.” Brezhnev began to cry because that, too, wouldn’t happen in his lifetime. “Because it won’t happen in my lifetime,” the President responded. God replied, “A hundred years.” Reagan began to cry. “How long will it be before capitalism rules the world?” he asked. chief, Yasir Arafat, that he would answer one question from each of them. The story began with God telling President Ronald Reagan, the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, and the P.L.O. guerrillas to retreat on ships for distant lands. In 1982, a Palestinian fighter told me a dark joke on the day that the Israeli invasion of Lebanon forced six thousand P.L.O.
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