The agreements speak of "coexistence." Why is Israel talking about "coexistence" with a country thousands of miles away? At the same time, within its borders, 100,000 Arab citizens live in villages older than the State of Israel itself, but which are not recognized and do not have access to basic services such as water and electricity? Palestinians expressed anger at the agreements by firing rockets from Gaza at Israel during the ceremony at the White House. At a ceremony at the White House on September 15, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates signed agreements to establish comprehensive diplomatic, cultural and trade relations with Israel. In Israel, developments have come at a dangerous time for Mr. Netanyahu, who leads a fragile and fragile coalition government and is on trial for corruption. His promise of annexation, repeated in three elections, had left him in a box after Mr. Kushner opposed his progress, without going through Mr. Trump`s official peace plan. But shortly after Thursday`s agreement, Netanyahu and his internal political rivals announced that they had made progress in coalition talks. In the region, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Oman have publicly welcomed the Abraham Agreement. Saudi Arabia has said nothing, although analysts strongly speculate that this non-reaction is a sign that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman supports the deal, but that it is limited because his father, the king, opposes normalization with Israel. Iran, Qatar and Turkey have criticized the deal, with the latter threatening to withdraw their ambassador from Abu Dhabi. Civil society organizations across the region remain strongly opposed to normalizing relations with Israel.

These include Gulf groups that have been particularly opposed to the Israeli-Emirati agreement. One of the agreements stipulates that Israelis do not need visas to visit the United Arab Emirates, and the Emiratis can also visit Israel freely. As direct flights are expected to begin in January, Israel`s tourism industry, hit hard by COVID-19, expects 250,000 Emiratis a year. Some Israeli tour operators already sell trips to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said the agreement must be pursued by abandoning any plan to annex parts of the West Bank and that if the agreement could lead to its withdrawal from the Palestinian territories, it would bring the Middle East closer to peace. Otherwise, the Arab-Israeli conflict would only get worse. [88] India welcomed the agreement and declared that the two nations were its allies and that it had always supported peace and prosperity in West Asia. Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar had previously said that UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan had called him to discuss the agreement. [125] Longtime New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has written for decades on international geopolitics and has been a regular critic of Trump`s policies, hailed the deal as "exactly what Trump said in his tweet: a "huge breakthrough." [41] As a condition of the UAE`s agreement to normalize relations, Netanyahu agreed to freeze his plan to annex parts of the West Bank. But the Palestinians seemed to be a reflection barely mentioned in the official remarks of the day. So, with Otaiba`s agreement, one of the guests slipped to the table and went around the restaurant, introduced himself to the Prime Minister and said, you know, when you finished dinner, why didn`t you and your wife come and say hello to Yousef Otaiba and his guests? And Netanyahu said he would.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, however, questioned the fact that the agreement would bring stability to the region, said that without a two-state solution, there would be no stability, and said that the United Arab Emirates had abandoned the Palestinians with the agreement. [122] The State Department then issued a statement on its part in which it stated that it was not critical of the peace agreement, but stressed that it was important for Arab states, in particular