Israel Uae Peace Agreement 2020

Although the annexation was “temporarily halted” as part of the peace agreement, the Palestinians lag behind what Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described as a “sting in the back” of the Palestinian people, who consider most Arab states to be natural allies. This sentiment was reinforced by the 2002 “Arab Peace Initiative”, whose conditions stipulate that the normalization with Israel by the Arab States can only take place after a fair solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Abbas also accused the United Arab Emirates of reducing the conflict to the only issue of annexation, ignoring the legitimate rights and interests of the Palestinian people. On 16 August 2019, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, in the midst of growing tension with Iran, issued a public statement on military cooperation with the United Arab Emirates. [14] On 16 August 2020, the United Arab Emirates for the first time established telephone communications with Israel by detecting direct elections to Israel`s 972. [15] Israel`s first direct commercial flight to the United Arab Emirates took place on 31 August 2020[16] and the first ship carrying cargoes from the United Arab Emirates to Israel reached the port of Haifa on 12 October. [17] Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that the agreement should be continued by abandoning any plan to annex parts of the West Bank and that if the agreement could lead to its withdrawal from the Palestinian territories, it would bring the Middle East closer to peace. Otherwise, the Arab-Israeli conflict would only get worse. [88] The new peace agreements thus address a critical lack of Israel`s previous agreements with Egypt and Jordan. Of course, the historic peace agreement reached in 1979 with Egypt remains an unassailable reference to ending the Arab-Israeli wars by removing the Arab world`s most populous and powerful nation from the conflict. Without this decisive change, no further agreement would have been possible between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

But this peace – and its 1994 successor with Jordan – remains a cold peace, limited to strong security coordination and a series of economic agreements. Depending on the survival of regimes of dubious longevity, such peace is constantly vulnerable to regional and internal vicissitudes. The agreements speak of “coexistence.” Why is Israel talking about “coexistence” with a country thousands of miles away? At the same time, within its borders, 100,000 Arab citizens live in villages older than the State of Israel itself, but which are not recognized and do not have access to basic services such as water and electricity? A spokeswoman for the European Commission said the agreement was important to both Israel and the United Arab Emirates, as well as ensuring their stability.