Arab League Rejects Palestinian Resolution Condemning Israel-UAE Peace Deal
Arab League official Hussam Zaki: “Discussion … did not lead to agreement over the resolution proposed by the Palestinians.”
In a significant diplomatic blow to the Palestinian leadership, the Arab League has refused to condemn the landmark peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The organization representing 22 Arab countries spread across the Middle East and North Africa voted down the resolution sponsored by the Palestinian Authority (PA) denouncing the Arab Gulf state of UAE for establishing full diplomatic ties with the Jewish State.
True to their history of rejecting every single peace initiative with Israel since 1948, the Palestinian leadership demanded Arab countries join them in condemning any move towards normalcy peace between Arabs and the Jewish State. In the run-up to Wednesday’s meeting, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-controlled Palestinian Authority was furious at the Arab League and the Islamic Cooperation Council for failing to come out against the Israel-UAE peace agreement brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
“This meeting must release a decision rejecting this step. Otherwise, we will be seen as giving it our blessing, or conspiring with it, or attempting to cover it up,” PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki demanded. PLO’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit to resign if his organization accepted the U.S.-backed peace deal.
Israeli TV channel Arutz Sheva reported the Arab League’s decision:
The Arab League on Wednesday failed to pass a resolution proposed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) which would have condemned the normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Times of Israel reports.
“After a three-hour debate, some Arab countries refused to include [a] statement condemning [the UAE] for abandoning Arab decisions. Additionally, they struck out a clause which discussed the trilateral agreement” between the UAE, the US, and Israel, the PA representative to the Arab League, Muhannad al-Aklouk, was quoted as having told the Ma’an news agency.
Senior Arab League official Hussam Zaki said, “Discussion around this point was serious and comprehensive. But it did not lead to agreement over the resolution proposed by the Palestinians.”
Zaki said the PA representatives had insisted they would either accept a condemnation of the agreement or no statement on the issue at all.
“A number of amendments were proposed, and then counter-amendments…and we were at a point in which Palestinian demands had not been realized, and the Palestinians preferred it not to pass rather than have it pass in a manner which they believed to be inadequate,” Zaki said.
The latest Arab League’s decision exposes the isolation that Palestinian leadership faces in the neighborhood. Besides, there are little Palestinian condemnations at such fora can achieve. The White House is set to hold a signing ceremony on September 15 to formalize the historic agreement. With the August 13 peace deal negotiated by President Trump, the UAE has become the third Arab nation to establish diplomatic and trade relations with the Jewish State, following Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1993.
The criticism of the Arab League’s decision also came from the Islamic terrorist group Hamas. Not condemning the peace deal could encourage other Arab nations to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, the Gaza-based terrorist group feared.
“This inability to condemn the UAE merely tempts Israel and the United States to continue implementing their plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause,” a Hamas spokesperson said.
UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash defended his country’s right to take “sovereign” decisions in line with its national interests. Since the agreement was announced some three weeks ago, the Arab country has faced a campaign of threat and intimidation from Palestinian leaders and their allies. Turkey threatened to cut off all diplomatic ties with the UAE, while Iran called the country a “legitimate and easy target” for terrorist attacks for signing the peace deal.
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And 3 globalist presidents twist in this BVDs because they couldn’t pull this off.
Not the idiotic and reflexive denouncing of this deal by vile Obama lackey, Ben Rhodes, and, by the vile, ugly (within and without), Muslim supremacist and Jew-hating bigot, Rashida Tlaib. This deal is rightfully recognized by all rational and peace-loving peoples as a major and genuine diplomatic accomplishment.
Only Leftist, useful-idiot, dhimmi apologists for Islamic jihad, and, Muslim jihadists, themselves, would oppose this deal.
I mean, “NOTE the idiotic…”
Rashida Tlaib, hideous inside and out.
One step closer to a Nobel Peace Prize.
Another major shift brought about by Trump. The Arab League has no more use of the Palestinian cause which none of them really cared about anyway. So they are washing their hands of them. I sense a major comprehensive deal developing.
Let’s see how committed Iran is to funding the PLO, Hamas and the rest. I don’t even expect Russia and China to bother. It’s a new game.
Exactly. The sudden shakeup in the Middle East has left many of the Arab states finding little use for the Palestinians and their never ending war. The road to peace in the Middle East runs through Fraking, and US Energy independence. The US is no longer a captive client of Gulf Oil. Nor can it be held hostage to it. Further for oil and energy production the Middle East’s most direct competitors are Now North America and Russia. The days of easy oil money are over. Survival of the Arab states and their various regimes requires they grow and diversify their economies. And the best path to that diversification runs through Jerusalem. The Palestinians have nothing to offer the Arab states in this new Middle East. Save following the Palestinians into bankruptcy and irrelevance.
The shift in the Arab world evidenced by the UAE and other impending peace deals with Israel should be major stories in the MSM. Instead we get a daily dose of “Orangeman bad!”
A perfectly put economic explanation identifying what, to me as well, is the principal impetus behind the new Israeli-Arab states diplomatic initiative.
Geopolitically, strategically, the focus would seem to be on Iran-Iraq.
Unlike Iran and its clients, Israel hasn’t been trying to impose its will on its Arab neighbors.
Did I understand that right?
Iran calls UAE a sitting duck for ( Their ) terrorism?
Yes, I did a recent post on that
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/08/uae-rejects-irans-terror-threats-over-israel-peace-deal/
How long before Arabs decided that they have had enough of palestinians, and are willing to play a role in expelling the worst troublemakers of the region?
From what I can tell, palestinians are pretty much universally rejected, disliked.
Iran is the democrat party of the middle east. If you don’t vote right, they will burn your house down.
That may be the threat, but Democrats usually end up burning their own house down. I wouldn’t expect the mullarchy to do any better.
I think the UAE was just waiting for someone to come up with a new approach so they could get this done. The idea they were at perpetual war with Israel was simply draining and caused focusing issues on foreign policy. Trump brought the new approach.
The Saudi head put it well when he opined that there were always Jews or Israelis in the Middle East and even the Koran mentions such as does archaeology, nor would making peace with Jews be unique, as the Koran also points.
Likewise Kosovo and Serbia. An approach that did not tie itself to history, language or religion was needed. Trump brought that approach. Economic ties.
Not ALL of the Koran is lovey-dovey with Judaism and the Koran must be read and followed in chronological order. The last command of Allah was to not have friends or dealings with Jews and Christians. For now, Allah is on the sidelines in this period of earthly dealings. Trump’s “global initiative” sure beats the NWO plan.
I am well aware of the crazy madness that afflicts the Koran.
Hey, PA & Hamas, and the rest of your murderous, plutocratic, kleptocratic and self-serving rulership — exploiting for your own personal gain in money and power, dumbing down, intimidating, lying to, stealing from, and killing inhumanely by all manner and form during peace and war the people of The Disputed Territories in The West Bank, The Jordan Valley, and Gaza, whose well-being, general welfare, and better lives you’ve been “elected,” reelected, and reelected again, time after time, to promote and protect, to no satisfactory avail or political outcome vis-a-vis Israel, with whom you agreed since Madrid in 1993, to walk together, to proceed by a mutually agreed Process on the Road to Peace:
The word now — just ask your regional Arab brethren; they’ve told you officially, in case you’d like to know their opinion of your “state” — is Shalom, and not in the sense of “hello” or “peace,” but “goodbye”.
Yes, “Palestinians,” or whatever that means or represents, May your God, Allah, be with you.
2024: Pence & Haley; or Haley & Noem!
Scratch the above entry, please; wrong article.
Trump/Pence. Pence/Scott (or Haley), Scott/Haley, Scott/Owens. That’s correct…. both a Black Prez and VP… and loving it. I am certain that there are many worthy combinations of qualified candidate possibilities without any affirmative action nonsense.
Indeed, there are. I think we can “thank” Thurgood Marshall and his “class action” designation before The Nine, at least in part, for all this madness.
Anyway, sounds neo-Marxist (ie, Frankfurt school, Marcusian) to me.
Couldn’t have done it without President Obama’s signature achievements in the Middle East.
He made Iran such a regional threat that Arabs are willing to make peace with Israel.
That’s why BHO got his in advance — he’s that clever, and so cleverly devoted to Middle-East/world peace.
ANOTHER TRUMP PEACE DEAL: Bahrain will normalize ties with Israel, Bahrain Crown Prince will be in DC Monday. @realDonaldTrump
is expected to make an offical announcement later Friday from the White House – Times Of Israel
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