Israeli & US Officials Reach UAE To Finalize Normalization Deal

via https://youtu.be/OkGa1uiu9CU Senior US and Israeli officials landed in the United Arab Emirates on Monday. The officials also told Palestinians it was now time for them to negotiate peace. 🇮🇱✈️🇦🇪 #IsraelUAE #UAEIsrael pic.twitter.com/mMSjEbRrFp August 31, 2020 Announced on August 13, the normalization deal is the first such accommodation between an Arab country and Israel in more than 20 years. Kushner says Palestinians should not be ‘stuck in the past’ Palestinians are worried that it would weaken an Arab position that called for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. Palestinians should not be “stuck in the past”, said Kushner. Even before landing, the delegates made aviation history when the Israeli commercial airliner flew over Saudi territory on the direct flight from Tel Aviv to the UAE capital. “That’s what peace for peace looks like,” Netanyahu tweeted, describing a deal for formal ties with an Arab state that does not entail handover of land that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. Meanwhile, The Israeli airline ELAL, carrying the officials, also flew over Saudi Arabia for the first time ever, according to social media.