Israel-UAE: last days of the old Middle East

Annexation would be purely symbolic, since Israel has already ruled all that land for the past 53 years, but he still needed an excuse to renege on his promise.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a deal last week that deal to open diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates that just repackages the existing reality, writes Gwynne Dyer.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY Gwynne Dyer

August 19, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The "two-state solution" is still dead. The deal to open diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, announced by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem last week, opens no new ...

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