The Love Triangle That Spawned Trump’s Mideast Peace Deal

Posted on AllSides September 16th, 2020
From The Left
Middle East, UAE, Bahrain, Israel, peace deals, White House, Donald Trump
OPINION

Having covered Arab-Israel diplomacy for more than 40 years, I have to say that the normalization agreements signed Tuesday between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Israel and Bahrain came about in a most unusual — but incredibly revealing — fashion.

I can best explain it with a soap opera analogy: It is as if Jared Kushner was a lawyer who set out to arrange a divorce between a couple, “Mrs. Israel” and “Mr. Palestine.” In the process, though, Mr. Kushner discovered that Mrs. Israel and Mr. Palestine were...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/opinion/trump-israel-bahrain-uae.html

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