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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: face23785
Under the agreement, Israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the West Bank that it has been discussing annexing, senior White House officials told Reuters.
www.reuters.com... ns-idUSKCN25926W
So, Israel blinked, and in return the UAE will finally recognize the existence of Israel.
What does the UAE get out of this?
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: putnam6
I don't think this has much to do with Trump, although he'd like to think so. It's all Bibi. He's mired in scandal and desperately needs some good news for his own political future. Although shelving Golan Heights projects might piss off some of his financiers. Doesn't look like there's going to be a Trumpville in Golan Heights any time soon! LOL
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: ufoorbhunter
Iran has been breathing down Israel's neck for decades.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
Huge deal and happy to hear it.
Been listening to the coverage and Trump even said we don't need them for anything anymore....not for oil, nothing.
I am sure the US had a lot to do with the negotiations because of our involvement from administrations past.
This is a great move, but it will take time to see how it actually works out.
An American company has inked a contract with Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria to develop and export the region’s crude oil under a secretive deal approved by the U.S. government months after President Donald Trump announced he was leaving U.S. troops to “secure the oil,” multiple people familiar with the project told POLITICO.
originally posted by: ntech
If I had to guess at this I would say the realization that getting rid of Israel is impossible is sinking in. They fought Israel for 72 years now with zero success. And the writing on the wall. The oil money is starting to dry up. Demand is way down. World production capability is up. The US recently became a net exporter of oil. Electric cars other energy efficient technologies are coming online. And with the left's preoccupation with a "green" world and "green" economies demand for oil is only going to decrease.
It's getting to the point that Palestine is too expensive to support as a continuing interest. Also the Islamic world has to consider whether or not Allah supports them when it comes to removing Israel. After 72 years they have to think about why they have nothing to show for their efforts. Allah is apparently supporting Israel. And if that's the case then fighting Israel is not Islamic.They're screwing the pooch somewhere. I would say it's time for the Palestinians to take what they can get and sign a peace treaty. Or find out later they completely lost the West Bank and the Gaza Death Strip is a permanently walled off Escape from New York type prison camp impossible to get to and forgotten about by the rest of the world.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
I don't think that it will last. Settlement building is an important political football in Israel. A lot of powerful people have a lot of political capital invested in continuing to expand them.
I think that this deal will collapse due to Israeli domestic politics. Conservative groups will push forward with expansions in order to gain support among their base during the next round of elections or the one after that. This deal only has partial support domestically, a lot of people see it as giving too much ground and appeasing too many foreign countries.
originally posted by: carewemust
September 2, 2020
Video clip taken onboard the first EVER commercial flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates!
Filmed on August 31, 2020: twitter.com...
Congrats to the Trump Administration...particularly advisor Jared Kushner!
originally posted by: face23785
Huge news coming out of the Middle East.
Israel and the UAE have reached a historic peace deal and are establishing full diplomatic relations.
The deal appears to have been negotiated at least in part by the Trump administration.
A huge piece of news as part of the deal is that Israel has agreed to suspend annexation of occupied territories that are claimed by the Palestinians in the West Bank.
That should be a big step toward a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, but unfortunately I doubt it will move the needle at all. The poor Palestinians are hostages to their leadership and Hamas, who will settle for nothing less than the end of Israel. No peace is possible with them no matter how much Israel gives up. Just look at the deal Clinton brokered at the end of the 90s that Arafat walked away from.
Still, big news, only the 3rd Arab state to make peace with Israel.
BBC link
ETA: I have MSNBC on right now and even they are giving it positive coverage, shockingly.
Source: www.jpost.com...
President Donald Trump gave national security awards on Wednesday to several top advisers for their role in helping broker agreements aimed at normalizing relations between Israel and four countries in the Arab world.
Trump awarded the National Security Medal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, national security adviser Robert O’Brien, senior adviser Jared Kushner, Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and John Rakolta, US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.
"Thanks to the efforts of these individuals, the region will never be the same as it finally moves beyond the conflicts of the past," the White House said in a statement.
In the past four months, Israel reached deals with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco as part of what the United States calls "the Abraham Accords."
Senior US officials are hoping to seal one more agreement before Trump's term expires on Jan. 20.
The president’s authority to award the National Security Medal dates to 1953, under an executive order that allows for recognition for major contributions in the field of national security.
originally posted by: face23785
They pretend this is a fight for freedom, but all it's about is hating the Jews and everyone knows it. Sadly, the leftists that support these terrorists also hate Jews, along with the extreme right, so they have plenty of support. And meanwhile, the Palestinian people continue to suffer, despite having been offered their own state 6 times now. The only reason they are suffering is because they have scum leadership who care more about destroying Jews than helping their people.