Middle East
“I am glad that so many Senate Democrats have now echoed that sentiment,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the diplomatic breakthrough with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The Washington ceremony will include U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr and Dr. Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, chairman of the board of trustees of the King Hamad Global Centre for Peaceful Coexistence in Bahrain.
“Under these agreements, the UAE and Bahrain join Egypt and Jordan in paving the path to peace through recognition and engagement rather than by seeking to isolate and boycott the Jewish state,” said AIPAC.
For its own internal and external reason, the Saudis appear hesitant to make any bold moves, seeing the establishment of a Palestinian state as the basis for discussion.
Former high-ranking Palestinian Authority officials have been pointing to the failures these past 20 years, but the real target of their disapproval is unmistakable: its leader.
The Integrated Business Roundtable, founded with the belief that the path to peace between Israelis and Palestinians will come through investment in high-quality enterprises, held its second annual Israeli-Palestinian Economic Forum.
Emirati Finance Minister Obaid Humaid al-Tayer said the Gulf state sought to establish legal frameworks with Israel “to achieve prosperity for both our economies and our people.”
“We shall remember this day—a glorious day of peace,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the welcoming ceremony at Ben-Gurion International Airport.
The Palestinian Authority no longer hides its disdain for U.S. President Donald Trump and openly hopes for a Joe Biden victory on Nov. 3.
The push by the Trump administration for official diplomatic ties between the two nations comes in the wake of the Abraham Accords.
As part of the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords, Jerusalem and Manama sign a joint communique and eight MoUs covering fields such as commerce, IT and agriculture.
