In Israel, Jared Kushner says the stage is for progress in the Middle East

JERUSALEM – adviser to the White House Jared Kushner on Sunday trumpeted the recent agreement with Israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations as a historic turning point and said, “The stage is set” to follow for other Arab states, but he was not Note that all new offers were forthcoming. Appearing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien spoke one day before Kushner is a high Israeli delegation on the first commercial flight from Israel, the United Arab Emirates to join. The flight has great symbolic value and represents an important step in what is expected to full normalization between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to be. The announcement on August 13 makes the UAE the only Arab country third full diplomatic relations with Israel to create, and the first to do so in more than 25 years. It reflects a change in the Middle East, passed in concern for Iran Traditional media to a shared wall-Arab wall for the Palestinians. “Today, of course, is celebrated a historic breakthrough for peace,” he said Kushner added that the agreement creates “once unthinkable” economic, security and religious cooperation. “During this peace agreement has been thought by many to be impossible, the stage is now set for even more,” he said, arguing that felt optimism throughout the region since the deal was announced. “We need to take this optimism, and we must continue to exert pressure to this region to make the potential that is actually,” said Kushner, President of Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief advisor in the Middle East. Israel and the United Arab Emirates have moved quickly to cement their relationship in the last two weeks. Almost immediately, it opened hotlines and ministers have friendly phone calls instead. On Saturday, the UAE has formally ended its trade boycott of Israel, even though the two countries peacefully stores have done for years. Flight Monday’s El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi will be the first known flight of an airplane Egged Israel in the Emirates. The two Middle Eastern countries involves a formal agreement at the White House in the coming weeks to sign. But so far, the predictions of Israeli and American officials, including Kushner that other Arab countries will follow the UAE would not yet materialized. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo toured the region last week to stop in Sudan, Bahrain and Oman – widely seen as a candidate to establish relations with Israel three countries – but seemed to leave empty-handed. The swirl of diplomatic activity of the United States looks like the Trump administration is conducting with ambitious plans Arab-Israeli rapprochement, even in the absence of a solution to promote the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has long been seen as a prerequisite for reach for Friedensabkomme Israel with all its Arab Neighborhood. Arab Gulf countries like Israel share deep hostility to Iran, have shown an increasing willingness to perform the back-channel connections with public Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the agreement with the United Arab Emirates would have brought “unbridled” trade and opportunities. “You will see how the sparks fly,” he said. Trump reveals a Middle East plan in January, which was rejected by the Palestinians, who say it unfairly favors Israel. The Palestinians seek the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip – areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war – for an independent state. The Trump plan offering limited autonomy in the West Bank and 70% of Israel’s total control of the territory, and a symbolic presence on the outskirts of Jerusalem, while Israel control passage on the sensitive holy sites in the city. Netanyahu said that the agreement with the United Arab Emirates the Palestinians a “veto” on regional peace no longer shows. The Palestinians have accused the UAE of treason. “If we have to wait for the Palestinians, we will have to wait forever,” said Netanyahu. “Since most Arab and Muslim countries to enter the circle of peace, the Palestinians finally realize their right of veto is evaporated and it will be difficult to stay outside the community of peace.”
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