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    United Arab Emirates Betray Palestine MoA Archived Message

    Posted by Tomski on August 13, 2020, 9:41 pm

    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/08/united-arab-emirates-betrays-palestine.html#more

    U.S. President Donald Trump just announced that the United Arab Emirates and Israel "agreed to full normalization" of their relations and that they will "establish reciprocal embassies".

    In exchange Israel will "suspend declaring sovereignty" over parts of the West Bank land that it, for all intent and purpose, has already annexed and controls.

    Here is the term sheet Trump posted. It is headlined as a "Joint Statement" of the U.S., Israel and the UAE:
    ...

    While the UAE and Israel have been in bed together for decades they never established formal relations.

    This will create waves in the Arab world. It is treason towards the Palestinian cause and its supporters. The Arab boycott of Israel was always supposed to press Israel towards recognizing the rights of the Palestinians. Netanyahoo had claimed that he could make peace with Arab states before making peace with the Palestinians. The UAE has now proven him right.

    This is a huge political success for Netanyahoo. His previous moves to formerly annex parts of the West Bank were never serious. But he has now used that to 'pay' for a deal that is a much bigger win for him.

    This is also a huge success from Trump's perspective. His many pro-Zionist voters and donors will show their gratitude for this.

    The announcement does not say what the United Arab Emirates is expecting to receive for the deal. It may claim that it stopped the annexation of the West Bank but that annexation would not have happened anyway.

    UAE's ruler Mohamed Bin Zayed seems to disagree with a detail that Trump posted:

    محمد بن زايد @MohamedBinZayed - 15:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2020
    During a call with President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, an agreement was reached to stop further Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories. The UAE and Israel also agreed to cooperation and setting a roadmap towards establishing a bilateral relationship.

    "Setting a roadmap towards establishing a bilateral relationship" differs from the claim in Trump's term sheet that the parties "agreed to full normalization".

    Netanyahoo also seems to disagree with Trump's declaration:

    avi scharf @avischarf - 15:36 UTC · Aug 13, 2020
    This is hilarious. Senior Israeli source now says Israel still committed to annexation and that Trump only asked for a temporary freeze until peace deal with UAE is signed. Seems like Bibi is afraid of losing the settlers and his base in case we are heading for elections.

    It is likely that there will be protests in Arab countries against this step. Support for the Palestinian cause has weakened in the younger generation. But for many older Arabs it is still a very serious matter.

    As MbZ has nothing to show for the huge gift he is handing to Netanyahoo and Trump the rage will concentrate on him.

    Posted by b on August 13, 2020 at 16:04 UTC

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