International President Trump signs HISTORIC Peace Deal between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE 9/15/20

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Trump is fucking amazing. Sounds like Jared Kushner gets a lot of the credit too. Kushner 2024 perhaps? :cool:
 
Woulda happened whoever was President. Trump didn't bring this about, even though he is taking credit for it.



UAE and Saudi have been getting chummy with Israel well before Trump took office.

UAE leadership wanted good relations for a number of reasons:

- UAE knows if it is on good terms with Israel, it will get tremendous support from the US government. This allows UAE to do all kinds of shit and get away with it, with little pushback and criticism from the US government and establishment. UAE can keep abusing Asian workers and carry out war crimes in Yemen . Israel and its lobby are kingmakers, the UAE and Bin Salam of Saudi know this.

- UAE and Saudi fear Shia non Arab Iran and its influence. So that is another good reason to get close to Israel.

- Bahrain does what UAE and Saudi tells it to do, because Bahrain is run by a Sunni minority elite while the masses are Shia. Bahrain does not have an independent foreign policy, independent of UAE and Saudi. Qatar has an independent foreign policy, and for that the UAE and Saudi tried to cut it off.

- And before Turkey ended up pissing off the Saudis and Emiratis, the later 2 wanted Assad gone, so that was another reason to get close to Israel.
 
helltoupee said:
I'm interested to learn more, but the video just states that Trump "presided" over the deal. Like a party host.

What did Trump do specifically to get this done?
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From CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/israel-uae-bahrain-white-house-analysis-intl/index.html

What was Trump's role and why is this happening at the White House?
The Trump administration saw an opportunity in a shifting Middle East and took advantage of it. Unable to make progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump and his advisors shifted focus to the rest of the region. Long gone are the days when the conflict defined the news cycle in the Middle East. Now the biggest regional battle is between Iran on one side the and Gulf Sunni states on the other. It is in this conflict where Trump saw an opening to push Israel closer to the Arab states.

For decades, Washington has been the key broker of peace in the Middle East and the crucial moderator in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. It was President Jimmy Carter who stood between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, and Bill Clinton between Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein. Now it will be Trump standing between Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the UAE and Bahrain.
But now the White House vision of the region hardly includes the Palestinians. Trump has invited the Palestinians to the negotiating table, but only under a vision of the Middle East heavily skewed towards Israel and against the Palestinians. If they don't want to engage, the White House seems more than happy to leave them behind.
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Holic said:
Saudi Arabia is now allowing UAE/Israeli flights over their airspace. They are next in line to recognize Israel. God damn we picked the right president.
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Can you imagine if Obama had done something like this? It would be wall to wall coverage on every channel. As it is, Google and the MSM are trying desperately to bury the story and distract with red herrings. This is an amazing accomplishment that all Americans should be happy about. It's another case of Trump finding a way when everyone else failed.
 
When all those gulf countries erupt into civil war we'll see how great trumps "peace" deal is
 
Raffen said:
When all those gulf countries erupt into civil war we'll see how great trumps "peace" deal is
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The only one who has anything near the capability to hold in a fight on the opposing side is Iran, and they backed down like bitches after the US dropped Soleimani.

Which btw, I'm pretty that show of force was more than a little helpful to the UAE and Bahrain in making this deal.

Iran is a schoolyard bully who is just now realizing their classmates have had enough. And they're surrounded.
 
This isn't a "peace deal" since UAE and Bahrain were never at war with Israel. Trump and his servants are touting this as some big MidEast accomplishment, when it isn't.


Trump’s Mideast deals tout ‘peace’ where there was never war

JERUSALEM (AP) — For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a U.S. president will host a signing ceremony between Israelis and Arabs at the White House, billing it as an “historic breakthrough” in a region long known for its stubborn conflicts.

But while the optics of Tuesday’s event will evoke the groundbreaking agreements that ended decades of war between Israel and neighboring Egypt and Jordan, and that launched the peace process with the Palestinians, the reality is quite different.

The United Arab Emirates will establish diplomatic relations with Israel, a fellow U.S. ally it has never gone to war with, formalizing ties that go back several years. The agreement cements an informal alliance against Iran and could pave the way for the UAE to acquire advanced U.S. weapons, while leaving the far more contentious Israeli-Palestinian conflict as intractable as ever.

https://apnews.com/c87ca011c2cd4321d587e9684dfb84e1
 
helltoupee said:
That doesn't say what they did. Only that they saw an opportunity.

Plus, you told me CNN is fake news so I need a more detailed source with a little more meat on the bones.

What specific negotiations, policies, ideas, resolutions, etc., did Trump or his team offer as part of brokering this deal? What did they contribute specifically?
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I have no doubt your cognitive dissonance will cause you to balk and bitch at this response too, but you asked for details and we got em:

https://www.usnews.com/news/politic...reement-followed-many-years-of-discrete-talks

The effort to achieve that goal picked up speed 17 months ago at a U.S.-led conference in Warsaw, according to officials involved.

That February 2019 meeting, originally conceived as an anti-Iran gathering, morphed into a broader Mideast security endeavor after European objections to its agenda. Many countries opted not to send their top diplomats, and Russia, China and the Palestinians skipped it entirely. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended, however, as did the foreign ministers of key Arab states.

At the summit, diplomats from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain spoke of the threat Iran posed to their security and its use of Shiite proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. They stressed that confronting Iran had become the top priority — ahead of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — in comments appearing in leaked video, whose authenticity was confirmed by a U.S. official who attended the gathering.

Netanyahu followed, echoing similar concerns.

“Iran was very high on the agenda in Warsaw because Iran’s foreign policy is the biggest driver of instability in today’s Middle East,” the U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, told The Associated Press.

Four months after the summit, a secret meeting between the UAE and Israel took place on June 17, 2019, in Washington.

The trilateral focused on regional, cyber and maritime security, as well as diplomatic coordination and disrupting terror finance, according to a U.S. official who participated but was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.


More meetings followed in the U.S., Israel and the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi, culminating in Thursday's Trump announcement that his administration had brokered a deal between Israel and the UAE to establish diplomatic relations and exchange embassies. The UAE said Israel also agreed to halt its controversial plans to annex large areas of the occupied West Bank sought by the Palestinians.
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