Israel and UAE Reach Historic Peace Deal

Stand for Israel | August 13, 2020

ISRAEL-POLITICS-CABINET — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wears a protective mask as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at the foreign ministry in Jerusalem on July 5, 2020. (Photo by GALI TIBBON / POOL / AFP) (Photo by GALI TIBBON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The United States, as always, has once again proven itself a true friend of Israel. This time, the Jewish state’s American ally helped broker a historic peace deal. The Jerusalem Post reports on the monumental peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates:

Israel and the United Arab Emirates reached a historic peace deal on Thursday that will lead to a full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern nations in an agreement that US President Donald Trump helped broker.
Under the agreement, Israel has agreed to suspend applying sovereignty to areas of the West Bank that it has been discussing annexing, senior White House officials told Reuters…
The agreement was sealed in a phone call on Thursday between Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, who said in a statement that Israel had agreed to stop annexation and that in exchange the UAE and Israel “agreed to cooperation and setting a roadmap towards establishing a bilateral relationship.”
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who was in the White House on Thursday, said that “the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE will make Israel stronger and safer and will likely lead to additional exciting opportunities and incremental prosperity for Israel, its neighbors and the entire region…”