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The Road Beyond UAE-Israel Normalization
Netanyahu’s strategy of bypassing the intractable Palestinian issue has paid substantial dividends worldwide, but a peace treaty ‘domino effect’ is unlikely in the near term given various calculations in Riyadh and other Arab capitals.
Sep 10, 2020
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  • Ehud Yaari
Articles & Testimony
Here’s How Palestinians Could Benefit from the Diplomatic Deal Between Israel and the United Arab Emirates
Skillful U.S. and Arab diplomacy could use normalization and the accompanying annexation freeze as a base for renewed momentum toward an eventual two-state solution.
Sep 10, 2020
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  • David Makovsky
  • Daniel Shapiro
Brief Analysis
Normalization Can Inject New Life into the Arab Peace Initiative
With careful diplomacy, blunt discussion of national interests, and reciprocal steps on the ground, a group of like-minded Arab states could advance Palestinian-Israeli peacemaking while still preserving the API’s core.
Aug 31, 2020
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  • Ghaith al-Omari
Articles & Testimony
Peace for Warplanes?
How domestic and foreign disputes over the potential sale of F-35 jets to the UAE could complicate the country's normalization deal with Israel.
Aug 31, 2020
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  • Neri Zilber
Articles & Testimony
The Israel-UAE Deal Proves the One-State Solution Is Delusion
Far from producing a melting pot of coexistence and equality, forcing Israelis and Palestinians into a single state would only inflame the conflict and trigger an endless struggle over dominance.
Aug 20, 2020
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  • Isaac Herzog
  • Michael Herzog
Articles & Testimony
The Gulf’s Calculus on UAE-Israel Deal
Why did the United Arab Emirates decide to establish formal diplomatic ties with Israel? How much was Iran a factor?
Aug 19, 2020
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  • Barbara A. Leaf
Brief Analysis
Normalization Is Making Cairo Uncomfortable
The UAE’s deal with Israel may render Egypt a junior partner in future peace diplomacy, aggravating its existing frustration over years of financial dependence on the small Gulf state and a string of foreign policy setbacks.
Aug 19, 2020
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  • Haisam Hassanein
Audio
Decision Points Podcast: Season 2
Crucial Leaders in Arab-Israeli Relations
The second season of the Decision Points podcast with host David Makovsky focuses on key Israeli and Arab leaders.
Aug 19, 2020
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  • David Makovsky
◆ Decision Points Podcast
Articles & Testimony
Why the Israel-UAE Agreement Is Actually a Very Big Deal
It shows the Palestinians that their longstanding paradigm for isolating Israel has failed, partly due to converging regional interests, and partly because it was based on incorrect assumptions.
Aug 18, 2020
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  • David Makovsky
Brief Analysis
The Normalization Deal Splits the Gulf States—for Now
Some Gulf governments have welcomed the paradigm-changing Israel-UAE agreement while others have not, and those who follow Abu Dhabi’s path will do so based on their own interests and timetables.
Aug 18, 2020
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  • Elana DeLozier
Articles & Testimony
Putting the UAE-Israel Agreement in Its Proper Perspective
Like all good policy decisions, the deal emerged from the enlightened self-interest of the key parties, but the stakes are not as high as with Israel’s previous two Arab peace treaties.
Aug 18, 2020
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  • Robert Satloff
Brief Analysis
Lessons of the UAE Breakthrough: How We Got Here, and Why the U.S. Role Remains Central
Statements and actions by Israel and the UAE show how much regional decisionmaking is still shaped by U.S. assurances that enable parties to calibrate their cost-benefit analyses—an approach that could serve as a template for potential future Israel-Gulf ties.
Aug 17, 2020
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  • David Makovsky
Articles & Testimony
The Slow but Steady Progress to Israel’s Peace with the UAE
Years of burgeoning trade and quiet U.S. diplomacy helped lay the groundwork for a move that is only partly focused on improving the bilateral relationship.
Aug 14, 2020
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  • Simon Henderson
Articles & Testimony
The Israel-UAE Agreement Is a Key Step for Peace and Sends a Crucial Message to Palestinians
Emirati leaders apparently understood that this move would preserve the two-state option and preempt Iran from exploiting the annexation issue—while also opening access to previously off-limits U.S. weaponry.
Aug 13, 2020
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  • Dennis Ross
Articles & Testimony
Israel-UAE Deal Achieves a Middle East Rarity: It’s Win-Win-Win, Palestinians Included
Arab countries that have official relations with Israel are more effective at advancing Palestinian interests, and now Abu Dhabi has joined their ranks.
Aug 13, 2020
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  • Ghaith al-Omari
Video
Brief Analysis
Palestinians and the Two-State Solution: Hard Data on the Hardest Questions
Three experts on Palestinian and Israeli public opinion discuss recent poll results, sociopolitical trends, and potential avenues for expanding bilateral cooperation on smaller ‘non-narrative’ issues.
Jul 28, 2020
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  • David Pollock
  • Tamar Hermann
  • Ghaith al-Omari
Brief Analysis
UNIFIL’s Yearly Mandate Renewal: Maintain Ends, Change Ways and Means
Most parties would be happy maintaining the status quo, but staying course on the current security trends is unsustainable and may lead to escalation unless the Security Council revises its peacekeeping mission and procedures.
Jul 22, 2020
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  • Assaf Orion
Articles & Testimony
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States Under Stress
As Riyadh aims to revamp the kingdom’s place in the international community, its near-term approach to Iran and Israel will have much to say about the Gulf neighborhood’s future trajectory.
Jul 15, 2020
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  • Simon Henderson
Articles & Testimony
Don’t Give Up on the Two-State Solution
Unilateral Israeli annexation would be a mistake, but a one-state solution or an unconditional declaration of Palestinian statehood would just compound the error.
Jul 14, 2020
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  • Dennis Ross
  • David Makovsky
Mahmoud Abbas Checking His Watch
Video
Brief Analysis
How the Contest to Succeed Abbas Is Shaping Palestinian Options
Israeli and Palestinian experts and former negotiators explore the lack of clarity surrounding the next PA leader, including the potential effects succession might have on internal politics, annexation responses, U.S. policy, and more.
Jul 6, 2020
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  • Ghaith al-Omari
  • Ehud Yaari
  • Michael Herzog

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Featured experts

Ghaith al-Omari
Ghaith al-Omari
Ghaith al-Omari is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow in The Washington Institute's Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship.
David Makovsky
David Makovsky
David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations.
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross, a former special assistant to President Barack Obama, is the counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute.
Ehud Yaari
Ehud Yaari is the Lafer International Fellow at The Washington Institute.
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