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Abbas: UAE ‘turned their backs on everything’
At a meeting with rival groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas dismisses the Israel-UAE deal as “nonsense.”
Following a Sudanese spokesman’s statement indicating that peace between the two countries is in the works, Khartoum says this has not been discussed.
Israelis and Emiratis to develop COVID-19 stem-cell therapy
Pluristem and Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center to collaborate in developing cell therapies and regenerative drugs for severe diseases including COVID-19.
“For the left and many in the [Israeli] media, it’s difficult to see an Israeli prime minister from the right deliver true peace,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I have never leaked in my life,” says the Israeli defense minister, responding to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reason for not keeping him informed.
A larger Israeli delegation is said to have been delayed due to disputes over its composition, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry looking for a greater role.
The pact with the United Arab Emirates to include embassies, direct flights and bilateral agreements in security, business, culture and other sectors.
‘Going to be a warm peace’: Jewish leader in UAE reacts to normalization
Head of the Dubai Jewish community Ross Kriel: “We have community members who say they feel safer here than in Europe.”
In the deal to normalize relations between the two Middle Eastern countries, Israel agreed to temporarily suspend its plans.
“We made peace without conceding land,” says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of normalization with the UAE. As for the Palestinians, they “haven’t changed since the Balfour Declaration.”
P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement deputy chairman says that the deal “constitutes a knife in the back of Palestine and treason against Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
The deal between is seen by many observers as a way to counter the Iranian regional threat.
