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MIDDLE PEACE

Trump: Israeli pacts with 2 Arab states signal 'new' Mideast

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign
Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan react on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House,
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Washington.
Associated Press

By DEB RIECHMANN, MAT- clared will mark the "dawn Arab Emirates and Bahrain a Palestinian state. wear masks.
THEW LEE and JONATHAN of a new Middle East," in line with their common Hundreds of people "We're here this afternoon
LEMIRE casting himself as an inter- opposition to Iran. But the massed on the sunwashed to change the course of
Associated Press national peacemaker at agreements do not address South Lawn to witness the history," Trump said from a
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel the height of his reelection the decades-long conflict signing of agreements in balcony overlooking the
on Tuesday signed historic campaign. between Israel and the a festive atmosphere little South Lawn. "After dec-
diplomatic pacts with two The bilateral agreements Palestinians, who view the marked by the coronavirus ades of division and con-
Gulf Arab states at a White formalize the normalization pacts as a stab in the back pandemic. Attendees did flict, we mark the dawn of
House ceremony that Presi- of Israel's already thawing from their fellow Arabs and not practice social distanc- a new Middle East."
dent Donald Trump de- relations with the United a betrayal of their cause for ing and most guests didn't Continued on next page