King of Bahrain at U.N.: Israel Peace Deals ‘Send a Civilized Message’ to the World
King Hamad used the opportunity of his virtual address to the United Nations to call Abu Dhabi “courageous” for taking the first step in decades of any Arab state in establishing diplomatic ties with Israel, but also insisted that Bahrain had moved similarly while “preserving its firm position on the Palestinian issue.” The king urged the U.N. to support the establishment of a sovereign Palestine and claimed that the peace deal with Israel benefitted Palestinians by limiting Israeli “annexation.”
“From of our keenness to preserve the security and stability of the region, and as an embodiment of our resolute approach to openness and coexistence with all, we have announced the establishment of relations with the State of Israel,” King Hamad said, “sending a civilized message affirming that our hand is extended for a just and comprehensive peace, as it is the best guarantee for the future of all peoples of the region.”
“The courageous step taken by the brotherly United Arab Emirates to revive the hope of peace and stability in the region is a successful and blessed step,” the King continued. “In reaching ‘historic peace agreement’ [sic] with Israel, under the auspices and efforts of the United States of America, in exchange for stopping Israel’s annexation of the Palestinian lands, the UAE has enhanced opportunities for peace, reduced tensions, and given the people of the region a new era of understanding, rapprochement and peaceful coexistence, while preserving its firm position on the Palestinian issue.”
“We further commend the appreciated efforts exerted by the United States of America to accomplish these important strategic steps,” he added.
King Hamad did not specifically urge similar states to consider diplomatic ties with Israel, but more vaguely called “for intensified efforts to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in accordance with the two-state solution.”
“We consider this a cornerstone for achieving a just and comprehensive peace leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative, in order enter a new stage of work in which we extend bridges of good-neighborly relations to build and develop the common interests of the countries of the region,” King Hamad said.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the king applauded the United Nations and World Health Organization (W.H.O.) in the context of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — which the W.H.O. has faced severe criticism over for its role in spreading false Chinese Communist Party claims that the virus was not contagious in late January.
“This emerging challenge has proven that the international community is in dire need to put aside differences, to strengthen areas of human solidarity, to stand united in the face of these health threats, and to improve our future readiness to prevent such risks and properly fortify our societies,” the King said.
Bahrain announced that it would follow the UAE in normalizing relations with Israel in mid-September, shortly before the General Assembly’s annual general debate. The deal between Israel and Bahrain would allow air travel between the two countries — Bahrain had already agreed to allow Emirati planes to use its airspace to reach Israel before this but itself did not accept Israeli travelers — and result in the exchange of diplomats.
“The sand was loaded up with blood, and now you’re going to see that a lot of that sand is going to be loaded up with peace,” President Donald Trump said in response to the news of Bahrain’s decision to establish ties to Israel in September. “The good news is we have many other countries now in the Middle East that want this, and that means peace.”
Bahrain, UAE, and Israel signed their normalization agreements, dubbed the Abraham Accords, at the White House last week.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and reportedly major figure in making the agreements happen, recently revealed that, while visiting Bahrain this month, he delivered a Torah scroll to the Sunni Muslim king, for use in a Bahraini synagogue.
Bahrain’s royal family is Sunni Muslim, though the nation is majority Shiite, which has sparked some tension between the general population and the island nation’s leadership. Despite being a majority-Muslim Arab state, and unlike neighbors like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain is home to a small, legal Jewish community.
“This is a historic moment that we never expected to see in our lifetime,” Ebrahim Dahood Nonoo, the head of the Bahraini Jewish community, said in a statement celebrating normalization of diplomatic ties with Israel.
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President Trump “has broken a 39-year streak of American presidents either starting a war or bringing the United States into an international armed conflict.” The Norwegian official who said that, in nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, minced no words about why the president should win it.
Trump’s Peace Prize nomination has yet again killed expertise. For decades, the self-proclaimed experts
“For his merit,” said the Norwegian official of Trump, “I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees.”
No doubt that is true. Certainly, Trump has created more peace than 1994 winner Yasser Arafat — and more than the 2009 winner, then-President Obama, who relied heavily on foreign policy experts to downgrade America’s preeminence in world affairs.
Foreign policy experts countered former President Reagan in his fight against communism. They opposed Reagan at every turn; he ignored them and won the Cold War.
We see a replay here. The so-called experts oppose Trump’s “America First” foreign policy. They worked against his election, signing strongly worded letters. They predicted chaos and bloodshed. They counseled both appeasement and never-ending war. They questioned America’s moral legitimacy. They fomented congressional investigations and
Trump campaigned on promises to end our “forever” wars. He believed our NATO allies should contribute more to their own national defense. He called for other countries to account for misappropriating America’s blood and treasure. And he called on American leaders to account for spending our blood and treasure without increasing world peace or American security; he lamented the loss of our nation’s youths in other countries’ conflicts.
His agenda was clear. His goals were unpopular with foreign policy experts but popular with the families of our military members, not to mention with taxpayers. Why pay for no discernible progress in Iraq and Afghanistan while our own infrastructure crumbles at home?
The experts’ technocratic leadership has been dangerous and costly; we saw the devastation that those experts brought under both of the preceding administrations: Libya became a den of vipers. Iran took our soldiers captive and tried to humiliate them. ISIS established the first territorial caliphate in hundreds of years. Radicals decapitated American journalists and 21 Coptic Christians, among countless other prisoners, for all to see; American aid worker Kayla Mueller suffered captivity, rape, torture, and death at the hands of those savages. Iran received an expert-approved nuclear
Trump reversed all of these blunders. He
In the Middle East, the president recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by, at long last, moving the U.S. Embassy there. He withdrew from the appalling Iran deal; he obliterated Iran’s terror chief, responsible for hundreds of American deaths and thousands of others. Most recently, he eased the way for peace deals among Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
In the coming weeks, the Nobel committee can recognize Trump’s peacemaking
What’s the use of a so-called Peace Prize if the clear victor fails to win?
Nearly five decades ago, Cat Stevens hit the pop charts with “Peace Train.” The song invited everyone to “jump upon the peace train” and “bring your good friends, too,” promising that the peace train is “getting nearer” and “soon will be with you.”
In 2020, you might say that today’s peace train is now the Trump train. For his world peacemaking achievements, Trump deserves the Peace Prize. And if the committee's members do not award the Nobel to him, they should call it quits. About that, the experts will finally be right.
The Nobel Committee's decision drew mixed reactions from US commentators and editorial writers across the political spectrum, as well as from the rest of the world. For awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
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