Palestinians, Mainstream Media Enraged by Israel-Bahrain Peace Deal
“The Palestinian leadership rejects and strongly condemns the normalization agreement between Israel and Bahrain.”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that Bahrain was joining the fellow Arab Gulf state of United Arab Emirates (UAE) in normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel left the Palestinian leadership and its supporters shell shocked.
The enraged Palestinian Authority, which controls the so-called West Bank, recalled its ambassador to Bahrain following the White House announcement, news reports confirm.
“The Palestinian leadership rejects and strongly condemns the normalization agreement between Israel and Bahrain – urges Bahrain to retract its decision,” Israeli-Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh tweeted citing Palestinian sources.
“The UAE and Bahrain are contributing to Trump’s presidential campaign at the expense of the inalienable rights of the people of Palestine,” Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator Saeb Erekat decried. The restoration of peace between Arab states and Israel was “a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause,” Ahmad Majdalani, the PA Social Affairs Minister, claimed.
Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas agreed with the POL-controlled Palestinian Authority. The Islamic terrorists condemned the deal which it saw as part of President Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century,’ also known as the Trump Peace Plan unveiled earlier this year. “Joining these countries to the path of normalization make them complicit with the Deal of the Century which is an aggression on our people,” the Hamas spokesman declared on Friday referring to Bahrain and the UAE.
Abbas right about now: No, no, no. Not another one! #Israel #Bahrain pic.twitter.com/0VuibwTk6b
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) September 11, 2020
While leading Arab countries like Egypt and the UAE welcomed the Israel-Bahrain peace deal, Iran and Turkey sided with Palestinian leaders.
“Tehran is displeased at Bahrain’s decision to normalise diplomatic relations with Israel in a deal brokered by the Trump administration,” the British newspaper Independent reported. “The rulers of Bahrain will from now on be complicit in the crimes of the Zionist regime, which is a threat to the security of the region and the Muslim world,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded.
Previously, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s military wing and a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, had threatened the UAE with terror attacks for normalizing ties with Israel.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry “strongly condemned” the move towards peace. “The step will be a fresh blow to efforts to defend the Palestinian cause,” the ministry claimed in a statement.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304464923469193217
Less than a month after the UAE signed a landmark peace agreement with the Jewish state, Bahrain became the second Arab Gulf country to join the President Trump-brokered move to normalize Israeli-Arab relations. The last such accord was signed 26 years ago when Jordan endorsed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994. Bahrain on Friday became the fourth Arab country to establish full diplomatic ties with Israel.
“This is a truly historic day,” President Trump said in a statement delivered from the Oval Office. Israel and Bahrain “will exchange embassies and ambassadors, begin direct flights between their countries, and launch cooperation initiatives across a broad range of sectors, including health, business, technology, education, security, and agriculture,” he added emphasizing the significance of the historic agreement.
“It took 26 years to get from the second peace agreement with an Arab country to the third agreement, and it took not 26 years but 29 days to go from the third peace agreement with an Arab country to the fourth, and there will be more,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged.
According to Friday’s agreement, Bahrain will be joining Israel and the UAE at the White House signing ceremony next Tuesday.
CNN's reaction to @realDonaldTrump striking ANOTHER Middle East peace deal: "SIGH."pic.twitter.com/Y0vzHWq5yB
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 11, 2020
The mainstream media shared the anger expressed by the Palestinian leaders and their allies.
The peace deal “isolates the Palestinians,” the New York Times complained, “as Mr. Trump tries to position himself as a peacemaker before the elections in November.”
CNN anchor Don Lemon mocked President Trump for his latest foreign policy achievement. “Wonder why he wants a Nobel Prize so badly. … Oh, you know who has one, right? President Barack Obama!” he said.
Leading mainstream media outlets tried to downplay or outright ignore the historic White House announcement. “The most-watched programs on CNN and MSNBC on Friday night completely ignored President Trump’s foreign policy achievement of brokering a peace deal between Israel and Bahrain,” Fox News reported.
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Our media isn’t intelligent enough and educated enough to understand foreign policy.
Mr. Halcyon, I agree with your statement. On the other hand, they have already shown their commitment to our destruction by supporting antifa, the squad, open borders, and in general hating everything our founders stood for, and anyone who loves this country and its exceptionalism.
Supporting your comment, look at this video,
https://www.gaconstitutionparty.org/overview_of_america_cd2019
Well…..they do what they are PAID for…..to do that is….
President Trump is gonna have a great pair
of Nobel Prizes.
To be nominated for it these days is just as good as actually winning it when you consider the war-mongers that peace prize has gone to……..
O-Bomb-a O-Bomb-a…..
Remember Obama’s dirty UN deeds, and how the palestinians crowing that Obama was carrying their dirty water?
Today, they are receiving a downpayment on what they deserve.
Romans drove Jews out of their homeland, I would like to see palestinians driven out of Israel’s.
Palestinians have dehumanised themselves, they need, deserve to be treated accordingly.
Thanks JustDelivered.
There was so much corruption and crime being carried out by the fake Kenyan president and his demented appointees, etc. that I never knew that.
You probably know there is no such people as Palestinians, and there never was a “land” of Palestine. Palestine was what the Romans decided to call the land of Israel to upset the Jews.
Sort of like calling Texas just a part of Mexico to upset Texans….if anyone were as dumb as to do that…..
I do, so other than when palestinian is the first word in a sentence, I use lower case. The truth is that the people in Palestine other than Jews are Arab squatters. I think that the only way to have peace in the region is to impose a lasting peace on them. They are not salvageable, in my opinion.
Media?
Biden called this an accident. Pelosi said it was a distraction.
TDS has mentally crippled the entire left.
Few of those in Congress are too
What about the freaking out of the 3 previous globalist presidents that couldn’t pull this off.
Yes, 2smart, and I can’t wait for the u.n. to wholly endorse these accords. (just kidding)
The Turks have shown their true colors and somehow must be taken out of NATO.
But first our nukes must be taken out of Turkey.
We also need to relieve France of nukes, can’t have those falling into Muslim hands.
But, but, but systemic diversity is the hook and crook of Palestinian leverage. The Arab nations, after decades of secular avoidance, and now to their credit, reject the means and motive of the persistent social racket.
Something interesting is happening, here. With each successive peace accord — undeniably praiseworthy and substantive diplomatic achievements, which the vile Obama’s vanity-driven, farcical, hollow and self-debasing capitulation serenades to Iran and Cuba pale in comparison to — the utterly infantile, irrational, unwavering and foolish belligerence of the Arab Muslim jihadists, and, their Israel-hating, useful-idiot, dhimmi allies in the Dhimmi-crat Party, and, among European Leftists, are being totally exposed.
The goose-stepping jihadists have toiled, mightily, and, with astounding success, to sow an utterly fallacious and poisonous narrative of alleged Arab Muslim victimhood, at the hands of Israeli Jew alleged “oppressors.” That narrative is falling apart, now, as rational people understand that it is the Arab Muslim “Palestinians’ ” unwavering fealty to Islamic jihad and its supremacist, totalitarian and belligerent principles of hate, that make a peace between Israel and Fatah/Hamas impossible.
Hear! Hear!
The only solution for Fatah/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran is death.
Morocco and Israel are ready to exchange air landing codes. Morocco used to have 350,000 Jews and is one of the countries that secretly wishes they had not left. They were a very important part of the business infrastructure and even government employees. Israeli and Jewish tourists have been going to Morocco for some time, and are safe if they stay in urban and tourist environments. But that goes for about everyone else also.
“Pragmatism talks; jihad walks.”
Correction: “While leading Arab countries like Egypt and Turkey welcomed the Israel-Bahrain peace deal, Iran and Turkey sided with Palestinian leaders.” Should be Egypt and X (Saudi Arabia?) vs Turkey.
Thanks indeed for pointing out. Error corrected. My apologies.
Again, all the right people are upset.
I am wondering how long it will be before Biden’s camp puts together a theme to show how bad all these peace treaties are for the US, and still not look like they dislike peace.
So far the entire campaign from the left has been the WuFlu and how bad PDJT handled the opening moves, all while avoiding any talk of how Biden would have handled it, had he been in the oval office. Its starting to look like they are being boxed in.
I’m waiting for Dem to break out the slogan of
“Wohlfahrtssystem Macht Frei.”
(The Welfare State Makes you Free….)
Hanging out with progressive friends, it’s amazing how uniformed they are.
Mention something like Israel-UAE peace, they may ask if you got the info by watching Fox TV or even from QAnon.
Many examples, but that is often the level of it.
Tell them you got it from CNN and MSNBC.
You can, but you have to remember they operate from Opposite Land.
Obama-era national security advisor Ben Rhodes:
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
Hey, when you’re right, you’re right…
Plus college journalism majors are majors in nothingness.
For example, almost zero “business reporters” on tv or in print actually had any business major. They all majored in journalism.
I am old enough to remember when we all wanted Peace in the Middle East. Now, according to the Press, that is a bad thing.
That means it’s good.
Real good.
I hope the Palestinians choke on the accord. More are probably coming for Israel and the Arab world. With the price of oil at rock-bottom and with worldwide Kung Flu, now is the time to strike accords which check Chinese expansionism and bring long-needed economic and political stability to that region. The bad flow of money to Palestinians will likely continue, Breaking the treaties will hurt already-ailing Arab countries—so it’s in their interest to comply. Especially this gives more impetus for them to stop sponsoring terrorism.
Hope they invite Pelosi, Biden, Schiff and Schumer to the White house lawn signing event. Just wanna see their expressions.
Can’t tear this one up Nancy.