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Middle East Peace Deal: President Trump Hails Israel’s Landmark Deals with UAE and Bahrain

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President Donald Trump has hailed the “dawn of a new Middle East”, amid Israel’s landmark deals with the UAE and Bahrain.

The president spoke as the two Gulf states signed agreements fully normalizing their relations with Israel.

The three countries hailed the deals as historic, as did President Trump, whose administration helped broker them.

The UAE and Bahrain are just the third and fourth Arab countries to recognize Israel since its founding in 1948.

President Trump hopes other countries will follow suit, but the Palestinians have urged them not to while their conflict remains unsolved.

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For decades, most Arab states have boycotted Israel, insisting they would only establish ties after Israel’s dispute with the Palestinian was settled.

“After decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new Middle East,” President Trump told a crowd of hundreds gathered at the White House on September 15.

“We’re here this afternoon to change the course of history,” he added.

Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the deals, saying: “This day is a pivot of history; it heralds a new dawn of peace.”

However, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said only an Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories could bring peace to the Middle East.

“Peace, security and stability will not be achieved in the region until the Israeli occupation ends,” he said in a statement after the signing of the deals, AFP reports.

The Israeli army said that two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel while the ceremony was under way.

Before the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the only other Arab countries in the Middle East to recognize Israel officially were Egypt and Jordan, who signed peace treaties in 1978 and 1994 respectively.

Mauritania, a member of the Arab League in north-west Africa, established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999 but severed ties in 2010.

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