India welcomed the agreement, saying the two countries are its allies and has always supported peace and prosperity in West Asia. Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar had previously said that UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan had called him to discuss the deal. [125] However, the impetus for Thursday`s deal dates back to about the same time that Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE`s ambassador to the United States who worked closely with the Trump administration, wrote an editorial in the popular Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot in which he directly called on Israelis not to annex the occupied territory in Hebrew. The agreement is the product of intensive tripartite negotiations. The idea was originally proposed by EcoPeace Middle East, an Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian nongovernmental organization that described a desalinated hydropower community between Israel, Jordan and Palestine as part of a proposal called the «Green Blue Deal for the Middle East.» (The Palestinian director of EcoPeace discussed water security at a Brookings conference titled «The Middle East and the New U.S. Administration» in February 2021. And it wasn`t long before he joined him. Mr. Trump surrounded himself in the Oval Office with a large delegation of aides and officials who showered him with enthusiastic praise, and he joked that the deal should be called «the Donald J. Trump deal.» At a subsequent briefing, White House National Security Adviser Robert C. O`Brien even announced that the president would win the Nobel Peace Prize. Just moments ago, I organized a very special call with two friends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates, during which they agreed to conclude a historic peace agreement.
After 49 years, Israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalize diplomatic relations. They will exchange messages and ambassadors and start cooperation in all fields and in various fields, including tourism, education, healthcare, trade and security. This is a truly historic moment. By uniting two of America`s closest and most capable partners in the region – some of whom have said this is not possible – this agreement is an important step towards building a more peaceful, secure and prosperous Middle East. Gantz thanked Trump, Netanyahu and Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for implementing the peace deal, saying it showed an alliance between Middle Eastern nations that wanted stability and mutual cooperation. It also showed Israel`s eternal desire for peace with neighboring countries, while strengthening Israel`s image on the world stage and creating a better future for the region. [35] Netanyahu, interviewed by reporters, admitted to keeping secret the negotiations with the Uae of Blue and White because the United States had asked him to do so. [36] In Somaliland, Bashe Omar Awil, sent to Kenya, welcomed the normalization between the two countries.
He says he «emphasizes the eternal pursuit of peace with neighbors» and is a key example of how bilateral cooperation is paramount to regional stability. [104] [105] «This is a black day in the history of Palestine,» Ahmad Majdalani, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization`s Executive Committee, said in an interview just before the Palestinian ambassador to the Emirates was recalled in protest. «This agreement is a complete departure from the Arab consensus. The Palestinian people have not allowed anyone to make concessions to Israel in exchange for anything. I am thinking, for example, of the famous handshake in the White House between Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin. Longtime New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has been writing about international geopolitics for decades and frequently criticizing Trump`s policies, hailed the deal as «exactly what Trump said in his tweet: a `HUGE breakthrough.`» [41] According to the EMIRATI government, the agreement «immediately» ends Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank and offers Israel and the Palestinians the opportunity to resume negotiations to end their conflict. Israeli officials use the word «suspend.» The difference in language represents the politics faced by the leader of each country. In the case of the UAE, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed was clearly forced to show that normal relations with the UAE were not free for Israelis.
For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the use of the term «suspension» is an attempt to appease political groups and factions in favor of annexation, which have already criticized the deal. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement stressing that as a member of the United Nations Security Council and the Middle East Quartet, it supports the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. .
