WASHINGTON (Halbeeg News) – The historic diplomatic pact between Israel and the United Arab Emirates unveiled Thursday has elicited mixed reactions across them globe with some hailing it as others dismissed as a betrayal of Palestinian course.
Despite the western world and allies of the UAE-Saudi axis including Bahrain, and Egypt welcoming the deal as ‘historic’ and a major break-through in ending continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, Saudi government has not yet officially commented on the pact, thought speculations points finger at Saudi being unspecified country President Trump hinted at, would follow suit.
However, a number of middle eastern countries and Muslim dominated countries have reacted angrily at the move terming it not only a betrayal of the course to Palestinian statehood and Islam.
Turkey just announced it is considering suspending diplomatic relations with UAE following the Thursday agreement.
In the deal brokered by the US, the UAE becomes the third Arab nation to fully recognize the state of Israel.
Others are Jordan and Egypt. The ‘Abraham Agreement’ secures Israeli commitment to halt expansion in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian leadership was the first to fire back calling the deal ‘betrayal of Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and the Palestinian cause.”
“The Palestinian leadership rejects and denounces the UAE, Israeli and US trilateral, surprising announcement,” Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman to President Mohamoud Abbas said.
Hamas followed suit terming the deal Zionist. “”This agreement does absolutely not serve the Palestinian cause, it rather serves the Zionist narrative. This agreement encourages the occupation [by Israel] to continue its denial of the rights of our Palestinian people, and even to continue its crimes against our people,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a statement.
Iran, a fierce nemesis of the Gulf nation and Israel filed similar dismissals of the deal.
“The oppressed people of Palestine and all the free nations of the world will never forgive the normalising of relations with the criminal Israeli occupation regime and the complicity in its crimes,” a ministry statement said.
But countries allied to the Saudi-UAE axis welcomed the pact terming it ‘progressive’ and instrumental in ending Israeli expansions in the West Bank.
“I followed with interest and appreciation the joint statement between the United States, United Arab Emirates and Israel to halt the Israeli annexation of Palestinian lands and taking steps to bring peace in the Middle East,” Egyptian president Fatah el Sisi said.
تابعت بإهتمام و تقدير بالغ البيان المشترك الثلاثي بين الولايات المتحدة الامريكية و دولة الامارات العربية الشقيقة وإسرائيل حول الاتفاق علي ايقاف ضم إسرائيل للاراضي الفلسطينية ..١/٢
— Abdelfattah Elsisi (@AlsisiOfficial) August 13, 2020
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “The UAE and Israel’s decision to normalise relations is hugely good news.”
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