Michael Arria speaks with JVP Action’s Beth Miller about the impact of the Abraham Accords, and recent congressional efforts to enhance them.
During their time in The White House the Trump administration helped negotiate a number of arms deals between Israel and other authoritarian governments, while cutting the Palestinians out of the process completely. This is sometimes hilariously referred to as a “peace plan”, but people usually roll with something less Orwellian and call it “The Abraham Accords.”
At the Zionist Organization of America’s annual gala, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that Israel does not occupy any Palestinian land.
Barak Ravid’s new book on the Trump administration offers a fascinating look at how the “special relationship” works.
Donald Trump’s normalization deal known as The Abraham Accords wasn’t enough for Benjamin Netanyahu, so he surprised the U.S. administration with a call to annex the West Bank.
A new market has opened up for Israeli weapons and settlement products — the United Arab Emirates.
There is only one explanation for the normalization deals between Arab states and Israel: the geopolitical position of Iran.
The incoming Biden administration has found the one Trump policy it wants to continue — normalization deals with Israel.
Netanyahu’s reported historic meeting with the Saudi crown prince this morning in Saudi Arabia at the behest of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a power move. The Saudi monarchy gets Israel lobby on its side to counter Biden’s human rights objections. Israel gets Saudi ally to help tie Biden’s hands against reentering Iran deal as posing a threat to peace in the Middle East.
Netanyahu knows that expanding settlements “early” in the Biden administration is “red flag” so he’ll hold off to avoid a “confrontation,” says David Harris of the American Jewish Committee. But he would not avoid that confrontation if Biden has any thought of returning to the Iran deal, predicts the Israel lobbyist.