Israel-UAE breakthrough proves Trump’s critics wrong again | TheHill

With such a grim record of prediction, Thursday s historic announcement that the U.S. brokered a normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates the first Gulf Arab state to announce formal relations with the Jewish State has the D.C. establishment with its tail between its legs once again. Especially now that so many have accepted prominent roles with the Biden campaign, they might want to consider where they went wrong.

I d recommend starting with why even the prospect of a Biden administration has been enough to push Israel and many of its Arab neighbors closer together. During the Obama-Biden years, the U.S. prioritized bringing Iran in from the cold over regional stability and violence reduction. It also considered Western Europe a higher authority on revolutionary changes to the Middle East balance of power than the U.S. allies who actually live there. The threat of a return to those ways of thinking, and the desire to maximize the advantages of the current administration, helped ink the deal that many saw as impossible.

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