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Israel-UAE breakthrough proves Trump's critics wrong — again
The Hill ^ | 8/13/2020 | Richard Grenell

Posted on 08/13/2020 6:05:26 PM PDT by bitt

For nearly four years, Washington foreign policy experts and Obama administration alumni warned that the Trump administration was jeopardizing any prospects for Middle East peace. By withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, we were told, the U.S. would alienate itself from its allies. By moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, it would inflame the anger of millions of Arab Muslims. By recognizing Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights, it would estrange the Arab states. By maintaining close relations with the Israeli government, it would imperil the lives of Palestinians.

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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TOPICS: Egypt; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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1 posted on 08/13/2020 6:05:26 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 08/13/2020 6:05:39 PM PDT by bitt (Our rights donÂ’t end where your feelings begin.)
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To: bitt

No, no. Biden said it was he and Barrack who got this peace deal through. Not kidding.


3 posted on 08/13/2020 6:12:56 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: bitt

Crickets from the left media ! LOL


4 posted on 08/13/2020 6:17:02 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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I remember when O’Bunghole got the peace prize for being 6.5% black, crony corruption, and excellence in melanin


5 posted on 08/13/2020 6:24:15 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: bitt

Uncle Joe and CamelToe will live to stick their noses FAR UP INSIDE the nether regions of our enemies. Uncle Joe has sold the farm once to Iran, with the help of his communist counterpart Barry Sotero, and will do so again with the help of his communist bitch Cameltoe.


6 posted on 08/13/2020 6:25:14 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Hiden Biden is Outta Time)
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To: bitt

Trump:. the president of peace


7 posted on 08/13/2020 6:50:20 PM PDT by thinden
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To: bitt

Not so fast their. It was Biden-obama that laid the groundwork...just like the roaring economy prior to the plandemic.


8 posted on 08/13/2020 6:55:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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Hopefully everyone will notice who is the author of this piece... a rising star in the second MAGA Administration. :)


9 posted on 08/13/2020 6:59:21 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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Uncle Joe and CamelToe

LMAO ... Ding Ding Ding ... we have a winner!

Definitely a Keeper!

10 posted on 08/14/2020 4:08:51 AM PDT by fedupjohn (Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business!)
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Splayed camel toe


11 posted on 08/14/2020 6:41:17 AM PDT by Vinnie
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12 posted on 08/14/2020 1:00:25 PM PDT by SJackson (wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
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