The most detailed of the agreements was the one between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The nations agreed to approve bilateral agreements in 15 areas of mutual interest, including finance, trade, aviation, energy, telecommunications, health, agriculture and water. But this myth is indispensable for Netanyahu. Because he knows he will not solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He will not pay the price. Not even the cut-off state, devoured by moths, that the Trump plan offers to the Palestinians. It must therefore shout the “peace” it makes with countries with which Israel has never fought and claim that the conflict is the “Arab-Israeli conflict”. Although Israel has not gone to war with an Arab country in nearly 40 years (the last time it fought the Syrian army on Lebanese soil) was in 1982. President Trump presided over a south lawn ceremony in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates signed a general statement of principle that the White House dubbed the Abraham Agreement, according to the biblical father of three monotheistic religions, as well as individual agreements between Israel and the two Arab states. UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomed “any initiative that can promote peace and security in the Middle East region.” [135] Stéphane Dujarric, Guterres` spokesman, welcomed the agreement and said it suspended “Israeli annexation plans on parts of the occupied West Bank” repeatedly called for by Guterres and said that “peace in the Middle East is more important than ever.” [136] M. Trump, who in January presented his Middle East peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, helped mediate the two agreements. Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, celebrated the announcement and called it a “great asset” to President Trump and the world, saying diplomatic relations show “how hungry we all are for peace in this world” and how all countries in the Middle East understand the need to “firmly oppose a regime, which is the biggest sponsor of terrorism – Iran.” [38] In order for the UAE to approve the normalization of relations, Netanyahu agreed to freeze his plan to annex parts of the West Bank.
But the Palestinians seemed to be an idea a posteriori that was hardly mentioned in the official remarks of the day. . . .
