Published: 2 October 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
TO MANY PALESTINIANS, the UAE and Bahrain normalisation agreements have revealed with stark clarity the extent to which they have been abandoned by the international community, and in particular the Arab states once counted as allies. “Palestinians are completely on their own, political orphans,” said Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the author of Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump.
With even more normalisation agreements rumoured to be on the horizon—Sudan could very well be next—the Palestinian leadership faces a strategic dead end. Israel’s ongoing military occupation has not led to its international isolation but rather to further impunity.
“If the lesson under Obama was that the US isn’t going to save you, the lesson under Trump is that the Arabs aren’t going to save you either,” Elgindy told me. Faced with this abandonment, many Palestinian policy analysts and intellectuals are asking: Where do we go from here?
FULL STORY: Searching for a Strategy (Jewish Currents)
Photo: Palestinians in Gaza City protest against Israeli normalisation deals with the UAE and Bahrain on September 15, hours ahead of a signing ceremony at the White House (Ramez Habboub/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP)
