Analysis: The consequences of the Israel-UAE Peace
United Arab Emirates foreign minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Bahrain’s foreign minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US president Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday prior to the Abraham Accords signing ceremony. The two Arabian Gulf states see their new accord with Israel as a bridge into the heart of US policy. Picture: Alex Brandon/AP
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has hailed the agreement normalising relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – which the two countries signed at a White House ceremony on Tuesday – as a historic step that equals Israel’s previous peace deals with Egypt and Jordan.
The Israeli leader also boasted that the agreement with the UAE vindicated his “Netanyahu doctrine” of peace for peace, rather than land for peace.
