The year 2020 was marked with an unprecedented shift in the Israeli-Arab relations.
The Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain are a milestone in the geopolitical transformations in the Middle East, where the Palestinian issue was overtaken as a central issue for Arab and Islamic countries; it allowed Israel to enter publicly the Gulf states, Arab and Islamic countries.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait refrained from normalization despite US pressure, Kuwait has rejected normalization due to the public opinion and the influence of Palestinian community in Kuwait (approximately 450,000), in addition to its keenness to maintain balanced relations with its neighbor, Iran.
The burger bromance between Col Allan and Donald Trump
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Col Allan, the former Sydney reporter who rose to be editor of the
New York Post and most recently advised on the paper’s coverage of the US election, is tying up loose ends in the United States before he returns to Australia in coming months.
Buddies: Donald Trump and Col Allan.
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Part of that house-keeping was a very special lunch date indeed: a private audience with one of his closest mates, the outgoing US president himself,
Donald Trump.
Allan’s friends report that Trump hosted Allan in the Oval office, where they dined on . wait for it . hamburgers, washed down with a fine bottle of chilled Chateau de Coca-Cola 2020.
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Top 15 MAGA Moments for President Donald Trump in 2020
31 Dec 2020
President Donald Trump spent his fourth year in office running for re-election on major accomplishments for the country but also battling the effects of the Chinese coronavirus.
Despite a challenging year, there were key victories for the president and his supporters felt particularly vindicated about their decision to vote for him.
These moments are “MAGA moments,” when it was clear Trump was keeping his campaign promise to his supporters to Make America Great Again.
Here is this year’s list:
15. President Trump Marks SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch – May 30
President Trump celebrated the first crewed mission from the United States since the last space shuttle flight in 2011 aboard an American rocket launched in tandem with SpaceX and NASA.
He was arrested in 1985 for spying while working as a US Navy analyst, CNN reported.
The US department ended his parole last month.
He and his wife, Esther, flew to Israel on a private aircraft owned by Sheldon Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate and supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu received him on the airport and handed him an Israeli ID. We are ecstatic to be home at last after 35 years, said Pollard, according to a statement from Netanyahu s office. And we thank the people and the Prime Minister of Israel for bringing us home.
Netanyahu said the Pollards would now be able to start a new life in freedom and happiness.