Trump and Netanyahu’s celebration of failure

Sam Bahour
10 min readAug 20, 2020
Trump, joined by Ambassador David Friedman and Jared Kushner and other senior staff, announces the agreement of full normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Sam Bahour made the comments below in an interview with a journalist which did not air but that he later transcribed and shared with us. -Editor

The announcement of normalized relations between the UAE and Israel comes as no surprise for Palestinians. The normalization by several Gulf States, led by the Emirates, and Israel has been ongoing for a long period of time, under the table in…

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