UAE-ISRAELI PEACE DEAL A “GAME-CHANGER,” ROSENBERG TELLS FOX NEWS
Iran threat forced UAE leaders to fundamentally rethink, “Who is my friend, and who is my foe?” Author gives kudos to Netanyahu for prioritizing regional peace over “annexation.”
(Jerusalem, Israel) -- In a live interview from the Israeli capital, ALL ISRAEL NEWS editor-in-chief Joel C. Rosenberg told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream Thursday night that Israelis are “electrified” by news of the first new peace deal in a quarter of a century.
Bream also interviewed two former State Department officials who provided bipartisan praise of the deal. David Tafuri served as a foreign policy advisor to President Barack Obama. Kiron Skinner served as a foreign policy advisor to President Donald Trump.
To watch the full interview, please click here.
The following are excerpts from Rosenberg’s portion of the interview:
SHANNON BREAM: Now, Joel, I know – because of conversations that we’ve had – that you have been in communications with a number of key people and people connected to this. Would you give us some context about what it could mean for the rest of the Middle East as this comes together?
JOEL C. ROSENBERG: Well, I think this is historic. It’s a game-changer. We haven’t had an Arab-Israeli peace deal in 26 years, almost, since the King of Jordan in 1994. This is huge. I’m talking to you from Jerusalem. This is a country that is electrified by this decision. And I will tell you that the UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed invited me to bring a delegation of Evangelical Christians to meet with him a little more than 18 months ago. We sat in the palace in Abu Dhabi and he said directly – it was a two-hour, off-the-record conversation, but I can tell you now – he said, “I am ready to make peace.” We were stunned, and we talked through what the process would be like. And I said to him, “Look, I have no political power. I’m a novelist. I’m a political analyst. But I live in Jerusalem. I’m an Israeli-American citizen. I want to invite you to come to Jerusalem.” And he leaned forward and he said to me, “Joel, that day is coming sooner than you realize.” So this is just an extraordinary set of developments. And also kudos to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has decided to set aside the issue of annexation to focus on regional peace. This is a huge, huge development.
The All Israel News Staff is a team of journalists in Israel.
