Barnaby Papadopulos
The surprise deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, in which they agreed to normalize diplomatic relations in exchange for Israel suspending its plans to annex parts of the West Bank, has not been well-received by Palestinians. The so-called “Abraham Accord” makes the UAE only the third country in the Arab world, after Egypt and Jordan, to recognize the state of Israel, and more could soon follow.
Many Palestinians see it as a betrayal. “It is a stab in the back of the Palestinian people,” Mustafa Barghouti, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s central committee, told WPR. He called the agreement a “violation of the Arab Peace Initiative,” an Arab League declaration, first endorsed in 2002, that conditions full ties with Israel on Israeli withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territory. .
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