Trump’s pre-election diplomatic offensive glosses over awkward realities

Posted on AllSides September 16th, 2020
From The Left

The White House was festooned with the flags of four nations. There were trumpet blasts, multiple signatures on various pieces of paper, and much weighty talk about blood and history – everything you might expect from a peace deal.

And not just any peace deal. The agreements signed in Washington on Tuesday were titled the Abraham Accords, implying a epochal reconciliation between Judaism, Islam and Christianity, three faiths with shared Middle East ancestry.

Benjamin Netanyahu had brought the rhetoric to match, with lines for the occasion seemingly borrowed from a...

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/historical-bluster-glosses-over-realities-of-trumps-middle-east-diplomacy-show

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