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It is time for the Palestinians to join their fellow Arabs in accepting the existence of the State of Israel and negotiating a peace with it.
In a year marked by so much misery and misfortune, a rare bright spot has been Israel’s historic diplomatic breakthroughs. In 2020, UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco and now Bhutan have either established official relations with Israel or announced their intention to do so for the first time.
In 1977, the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat broke through Israel’s regional isolation with his dramatic visit to Jerusalem. The Israeli people and government responded with far reaching concessions that led to a peace treaty with Egypt for many years the only such treaty between Israel and any Arab country.
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US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara might seem like a victory for Rabat - but in the long term we can expect many negative repercussions
Then-Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and foreign minister Shimon Peres are welcomed by Morocco’s King Hassan II in 1993 (AFP)
Referring to the US-brokered deal to normalise ties between Morocco and Israel, US President Donald Trump tweeted that it was another HISTORIC breakthrough. a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!
Such self-congratulatory blather is hardly surprising, given the utter cluelessness of a man who was hardly likely to have been able to find Western Sahara on a world map a few weeks earlier.
Biden, Trump exchange jabs over vaccine rollout; reaction from The Five
President-elect Joe Biden, like most Americans, is probably thinking about New Year’s resolutions. Here are 10 helpful suggestions I would give him if we could have a talk.
1 Stop please stop that little jog you do when approaching a podium.
We get it that you want to appear youthful, but Tom Cruise you’re not. Can you imagine Chinese President Xi Jinping trotting onto a stage, or (God forbid) German Chancellor Angela Merkel? No, it’s time to look presidential, Mr. Biden, not like some over-the-hill college athlete trying to relive his glory days.
2020 Editor s Picks: Clips In Support Of Peace In The Middle East
December 29, 2020
The following is a collection of MEMRI TV clips expressing support for the 2020 Middle East peace initiatives. Producing such content is very costly, and your help allows us to continue our vital work of supporting counterterrorism efforts in the U.S. and throughout the West. We are very grateful to those of our valued readers who have already donated this year, and ask those who have not yet done so to please consider making a tax-deductible donation now.
This year MEMRI produced dozens of reports and clips on reactions in the Middle East and South Asia to the historic Abraham Accords Peace Agreement normalizing relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. These reactions, from these countries as well as from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Egypt, Yemen, Pakistan, and Palestine, as well as from ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hizbullah, Hamas, and Fatah, r
Begin Receives Nobel Peace Prize Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin embraces Egypt s President Anwar Sadat in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 17, 1978. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
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The 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded here today to Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was represented at the ceremony by former Parliament Speaker Said Marai. Both men, Begin in his address, and Sadat in his message read out by Marai, pledged themselves in the Israeli Premier’s words, to: “no more war, no more blood and no more enmity.”
Both men also paid tribute to President Carter for his role in the current peace process and for his “energy and devotion to peace.” The Nobel Peace committee also mentioned at length in its citation the role played by the American President during and after the Camp David negotiations.