Getting past the champagne corks: the complexities of the Israel-UAE deal (NY Daily News14.8.2020)
August 16, 2020
So much of President Trump’s foreign policy has been sleight of hand illusions — what you think you see is not what you get — that it is hard to take seriously any announcement of a major diplomatic achievement. This is the dilemma in assessing the announcement that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have decided to start a process of normalization.