The U.S. brokered peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is significant. It marks the first time a Gulf Arab state has entered into such an agreement with the Jewish state. In so doing, the Trump Administration did get Israel to agree to cease plans to annex the West Bank.
Of course, the devil is in the details. Anwar Gargash, the UAE's Minister of Foreign Affairs, states the Gulf nation will not open an embassy in Jerusalem until there is a final peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Though it will be intriguing if it results in getting the two parties back to the negotiating table.
This deal is probably President Trump's most significant foreign policy achievement. Then again the Camp David Accords was President Carter's most significant foreign policy achievement and look where it got him. Our current state of affairs under Trump makes the Iranian hostage crisis look like a Sunday school picnic.
Today's announcement doesn't change the fact that more than 5 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19 claiming more than 160,000 lives while displacing more than 40 million American workers.
Today's announcement doesn't change the fact the unemployed have lost our $600 a week lifeline nor does it change the fact Trump's executive orders aren't worth the paper on which they are printed.
Today's announcement doesn't change the fact that President Trump is actively undermining the United States Post Office in an effort to prevent people from exercising our constitutional right to vote.
If people do exercise their right to vote the agreement between Israel and the UAE will be the furthest thing from our minds when we cast our ballots.
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