Last days of the old Middle East

The agreements signed are just documents involving an exchange of ambassadors, trade deals, and the like.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leaders of UAE and Bahrain went public in announcing their ties, which had previously been not actually secret, but at least discreet.
U.S. President Donald Trump declared “the dawn of a new Middle East” in Washington on Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed public agreements with Israel for the first time. Not “peace agreements," as Trum...

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