Top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fly to the United Arab Emirates on Monday to put final touches on a pact establishing open relations between the Gulf power and Israel.
Screens displaying flight number of Israeli flag carrier El Al's airliner which will carry Israeli and U.S. delegations to Abu Dhabi for talks meant to put final touches on the normalisation deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, is seen at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Nir Elias
Palestinians were dismayed by the UAE’s move, worried that it would weaken a long-standing pan-Arab position that called for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory - and acceptance of Palestinian statehood - in return for normal relations with Arab countries. That could give Trump a foreign policy boost ahead of his re-election bid in November. In Jerusalem on Sunday, Kushner said the deal was a “giant step forward.”
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