Tel Aviv City Hall is lit up with the flag of the United Arab Emirates as the UAE and Israel announced they would be establishing full diplomatic ties, on Aug. 13, 2020 .Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel began working Sunday as the two countries opened diplomatic ties, part of a deal brokered by the U.S. that required Israel to halt its contentious plan to annex West Bank land sought by the Palestinians for a future state.
“Many economic opportunities will open now, and these trust-building steps are an important step toward advancing states’ interests,” Handel said. Some in Israel used Palestinian mobile phone numbers with +970 numbers, which those in the UAE could call. Palestinians say it puts a just resolution of the Middle East conflict even farther out of reach by undermining an Arab consensus that recognition of Israel only come in return for concessions in peace talks. That removes a rare source of leverage for the Palestinians.
The move has sparked anger among some who see it as a betrayal of long-standing efforts to establish an independent state of Palestinians. In Pakistan, hundreds of Islamists rallied Sunday to denounce the Emirati-Israeli deal. The Jamaat-e-Islami party chanted slogans against the United States and burned effigies of President Donald Trump. They also set ablaze American and Israeli flags.
Trump score: Peace in NKorea, stopping ISIS, busting elite pedophile rings, great economy for everyone, cut blacks unemployment by half, call out the press for who they are: enemy of the people, end wars, bust the deep state and now peace in the Middle East. All this in 3.5 years
Progressives are livid.