To Bring Peace, Free Palestinians from Hamas—and Iran
Thoughts from a diplomat who helped to negotiate the Abraham Accords.
June 10, 2021
To Bring Peace, Free Palestinians from Hamas—and Iran
Thoughts from a diplomat who helped to negotiate the Abraham Accords.
When fighting broke out between Israel and Hamas last month, some cynics rushed to declare that the peace agreements between Jerusalem and several Arab countries brokered by the Trump administration were failures. Some of these same cynics had previously put forward the bizarre claim that these diplomatic breakthroughs constitute an abandonment, or worse, of the Palestinians—as if the Palestinians had somehow benefitted from the Arab world’s perpetual state of war with, and refusal to recognize, Israel. But such commentary bespeaks only a misunderstanding of the Middle East, writes Ali al-Nuaimi, an Emirati diplomat who was involved in the recent negotiations with Israel:
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