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5 winners and 4 losers in the historic treaty between Israel and the UAE
2020-08-16
[IsraelTimes] Parties to the deal, including Netanyahu and Trump, secure a major victory, while the Paleostinians, Israeli opposition and some settlers are left in the dust.
Summary below, details at the link.
The treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is a big deal.

The agreement, announced Thursday in a joint statement by Israel, the UAE and the White House, means that Israel will now have diplomatic and economic relations with a country that had previously not recognized it. In return for recognition and relations, Israel pledged to suspend its ambitions to annex parts of the West Bank.

The UAE is a Moslem kingdom in the Persian Gulf made up of seven smaller entities, called emirates, with huge oil and natural gas reserves. Its metropolis, Dubai, is a wealthy city known as a commercial center for the region. The country borders Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 and is only dozens of miles across the water from Iran. It has a tiny Jewish community.

It becomes only the third Arab nation to establish official ties with the Jewish state, following deals with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.

In addition to trade, tourism and other exchanges, the treaty means the two countries can collaborate on treatment for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 and countering the influence of Iran, a shared nemesis.

That makes Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
a likely loser in this deal. The dealmakers are, of course, likely winners.

Here’s our analysis of who stands to benefit from this historic accord — and who has been dealt a surprise setback.

The Winners:
  • Benjamin Netanyahu

  • The United Arab Emirates

  • Donald Trump

  • Liberal Zionists

The Losers:
  • Liberal Zionists

  • The Palestinians

  • The Israeli opposition

  • The settlers (or at least some of them) and their American supporters
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The article lists one more winner, lord garth: The long view of Israeli history. I didn’t think it was important enough to mention, but I should have kept in mind the eagle eyes of our readers.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-16 17:05  

#2  From the link:
Winner: Liberal Zionists

Liberal Zionism is built on the idea that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is Israel’s most pressing diplomatic concern. This accord does not do that.

Yet liberal Zionist groups are celebrating the agreement. After all, their long-term goal is an Israel at peace with its neighbors. This isn’t how they thought they would get there, but a treaty is still a treaty. J Street, the largest liberal Zionist organization, said in a statement that the pact is “just the latest evidence that dialogue and diplomacy, rather than unilateral action and belligerence, are the route to long-term security.”

The suspension of annexation is also at least a temporary win for liberal Zionists, who have been bemoaning that such a move would mean the end of efforts toward a Palestinian state alongside Israel. For them, this is a temporary reprieve from that threat.
Loser: Liberal Zionists

Still, the accord is a major blow to the idea that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is Israel’s most pressing diplomatic concern. Liberal Zionists have warned that without sacrifices on the Palestinian issue, peace with other Arab countries is impossible.

Liberal Zionists have said, too, that continued West Bank occupation harms US-Israel relations. The UAE deal is a major blow to that idea. Occupation wasn’t an obstacle for the Trump administration, and apparently it’s not for the UAE, either.

Liberal Zionists have protested for more than a decade against Netanyahu and his policies. This is a major win for a man they desperately want to see lose.

The suspension of West Bank annexation isn’t a sure thing, either. Shortly after the treaty was announced, Netanyahu said he still hasn’t given up on annexing parts of the West Bank. So the one concession Netanyahu appeared to have made on their issue might not even last.

Posted by: Frank G   2020-08-16 17:04  

#1  headline says 5 winners but body lists 4

liberal zionists in both winners and losers
Posted by: lord garth   2020-08-16 16:45  

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