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The Gulf states sealed the normalization of relations in Washington. US President Trump had campaigned for a rapprochement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
8:23 pm, September 15, 2020
the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have in the presence of US President Donald Trump he Normalization of relations with Israel sealed. Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Abdullah bin Sajid and Abdullatif al-Sajani, signed several agreements Tuesday on the White House lawn.
With them peace was agreed, the establishment of diplomatic relations and the “full normalization” of relations. “This is an incredible day for the world,” Trump said shortly before the signing.
Trump had campaigned for a rapprochement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The United Arab Emirates and Israel had already decided to normalize their relations in mid-August. On Friday, Trump announced that the Kingdom of Bahrain would also follow the example of the United Arab Emirates. As a result of the agreements, there will be four Arab countries with Egypt and Jordan, and now the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which will have diplomatic relations with Israel.
Missile alert in southern Israel
As Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain sealed their rapprochement, the Israeli military said two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel. The “Iron Dome” defense system intercepted a missile, the army announced Tuesday night.
According to media reports, two people were injured in the city of Ashdod. A spokesman for the Israeli ambulance service said the two people were injured by broken glass. Four other people are in shock. The rocket alarm went off at the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech in front of the White House in Washington..
Netanyahu spoke at a ceremony on the White House lawn to mark the signing of diplomatic relations between the two countries with Israel. In addition to Netanyahu, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the Foreign Ministers of Bahrain and the Emirates, Abdullatif al-Sajani and Abdullah bin Sajid, also participated.
The Arab states have so far followed the approach of making the resolution of the conflict with the Palestinians a condition for normalizing relations with Israel. Therefore, the Palestinians feel betrayed by the actions of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
