Join Simon Barrett for this week edition of The Middle East Report, as he interviews Peter Baum the foreign editor of Weekly Blitz. We will be discussing what lies behind the success of the Abraham Accords? Israel relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain are growing from strength to strength since the signing of the Abraham Accords back in September 2020.
The UAE co-operation and investment in Israel’s hi-tech sector is due to be $10 Billion over this decade. The two nations are going through a process of normalisation as they are co-operating in all sectors including security, science, technology, and tourism. Now the UAE are the first Arab nation to put Holocaust education on their national curriculum and to have an exhibition teaching about the horrors of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people.
Now Sudan once an enemy of the state of Israel, the African nation who in 1948 sent their troops to fight against Israel in her War of Independence. In 1967 Sudan hosted the Arab League conference in October 1967 that became famous for the three Nos. “No peace with Israel, No Negotiations with Israel and No recognition of Israel.” Now the government of Sudan wants to make official peace agreement with Israel due to the Abraham Accords.
