Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates as the first Gulf countries expressing willingness to end their long-standing refusal to recognize Israel.
Only Egypt and Jordan currently have diplomatic ties with Israel, with the rest of the Arab world demanding the Israeli government must first come to a peace agreement with the Palestinians before normalization.
Trump portrayed the arrangements with Bahrain and the UAE as “historic peace deals,” although neither country was at war with Israel. He said it was significant to announce the agreement on the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which were carried out primarily by Saudi militants. “I think this will reduce tension in the Muslim world and allow them to separate their interests from the Palestinians’ interest,” Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said in a telephone briefing with reporters in Washington.The UAE agreed to work toward ties with Israel based on two major concessions.
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