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Agreements were signed on the normalization of Israel’s relations with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed on Tuesday (09/15) with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain two historic agreements that change the balance in the Middle East, under the auspices of the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
“After decades of division and struggle, we are witnessing the dawn of a new Middle East.” said the US president, during the ceremony, in the gardens of the White House. He added that “five or six” other Arab countries would soon follow the example of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, but did not specify which ones.
Netanyahu, referring to “a turning point in history,” said the agreement ratified in Washington could end the Arab-Israeli conflict “once and for all”.
In front of a large crowd gathered at the White House, despite the pandemic, the Israeli prime minister spared no praise for his “friend” Donald Trump. He then greeted his two young Arab interlocutors, saying in Arabic “Salam Alekum”, which means “Hymn of Peace”.
Netanyahu did not mention the Palestinians, although the two foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates did not forget them. Welcoming this “change in the heart of the Middle East”, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan personally thanked Netanyahu. “Because he chose peace and stopped the annexation of the Palestinian territories”, although Israel claims that it has simply postponed the implementation of this plan.
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdel Latif al-Zayani has clearly called for a “two-state solution” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Netanyahu and the two foreign ministers signed bilateral agreements, followed by the signing of a joint statement by the three with the US president. But in the Covid-19 era, they didn’t shake hands.
The two Arab countries are the first to recognize Israel after Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994). Both are Sunni monarchies and, like Israel, are hostile to Shiite Iran, Washington’s “number one” enemy in the region.
Many Arab oil-producing countries have been quietly cultivating relations with the Israeli authorities for years, but this normalization offers great opportunities, mainly economic, to countries trying to recover from the pandemic.
“It is a success of the first order,” said David Makowski, a former diplomat at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy. or Yitzhak Rabin when he was negotiating with the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Trump’s “vision of peace” in January aimed at ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was not a success: the Palestinian Authority categorically rejected it and even denied the role of the US president and mediator, as he has taken. Israel.
According to Makowski, the Palestinians will wait to see the outcome of the US elections “but when the dust clears, they will have to reconsider their position.”
The agreements signed today are considered a victory for Netanyahu and Israel, which is thus close to its objective, if accepted in the region, according to APE-MPE.
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