Q&A
Suzanne Maloney, Aaron David Miller, Karim Sadjadpour
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In The Media
Good News for the Gulf and Israel Mean Bad Tidings for the Palestinians
Israel’s normalization of relations with the UAE and Bahrain is more transactional than transformative.
Published on Sep 16, 2020
Source: Haaretz
Watching the hoopla on the White House South lawn as Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Foreign Ministers of the UAE and Bahrain signed an accord pledging normalization of relations, one could be forgiven for thinking Middle East peace was just around the corner.
Twenty-seven years ago this week, I remember that same feeling on that same lawn watching Clinton, Rabin and Arafat sign the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Declaration of Principles, which for the most part now lies broken, battered and bloodied.
About the Author
Aaron David Miller
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program
Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy.
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