Published: 27 August 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Netanyahu’s ‘normalisation’ policy will turn Israel into an Arab state (Haaretz)
The normalisation agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – like Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2009 Bar-Ilan speech and President Donald Trump’s peace vision earlier this year – is nothing but the same dame in different clothes when it comes to the prime minister’s Palestinian policy.
Netanyahu uses accepted and recognizable concepts from previous diplomatic moves with the Palestinians and Arab nations, but intends the opposite of what the international community and previous Israeli leaders sought to achieve. His goal is not to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the help of Arab states, but to decide the outcome on the basis of their support and setting impossible terms for the Palestinians, or their continued indifference to the existing situation.
The short-term victory of Netanyahu’s policy will ultimately result in defeat for the Zionist movement in the long term.
Backing Arab Peace Initiative, Bahrain appears to reject US push for Israel ties (Times of Israel)
Tweeting from Manama after sit-down with Bahraini king, Pompeo says he discussed alliance for ‘countering Iran’s malign influence in the region
How the UAE and Saudi Arabia now hold Israel hostage (Haaretz)
The UAE and Saudi Arabia now have significant leverage over Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians. And Riyadh is Israel’s real prize
Abbas slams ‘illusion of peace for peace’ in meeting with UK FM (Times of Israel)
PA president blasts Israel-UAE agreement, says peace cannot be made by ‘jumping over the Palestinians’
First Israel-UAE commercial flight to take off next Monday (Times of Israel)
Kushner, O’Brien, Berkowitz to take part in historic flight alongside Israeli delegation headed by National Security Adviser Ben-Shabbat, according to PM’s office and US officials
Photo: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in the United Arab Emirates on August 26 (Twitter)
