Jared Kushner Says Israel-UAE Peace Deal Is a 'Paradigm Shift in the Middle East

Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed Thursday to establish full diplomatic ties in a U.S.-brokered deal that forces Israel to delay plans to annex West Bank territory, long sought by Palestinians for a future state.

The move means the UAE would join Egypt and Jordan as the only Arab countries with fully normal ties with Israel. Trump said he'll host Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the White House in the next three weeks to begin a wide range of talks.

The deal, hailed by Trump as a "truly historic moment" and by Netanyahu as a "new era of peace with the Arab world," was assailed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a betrayal by the UAE in line with "treason."

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who said talks between Israel and the UAE had been going on for 18 months, called the Palestinian response "fairly predictable that we've seen time and time again to all types of things that help make their people's lives better."

A spokesman for Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip, said the move was a "stab against the Palestinian cause" that'd spur Israel "to commit more aggression against our people."

The agreement is a key foreign policy win for Trump ahead of the 2020 election. Even Joe Biden praised the deal, though not Trump, as "a brave and badly-needed act of statesmanship." National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said Trump should be a "front-runner" for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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