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Trump salute “dawn of a new Middle East” with UAE-Bahrain-Israel give out

US President Donald Trump has praised the “dawn of a new Middle East”, in the middle of Israel’s landmark deals with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain.
Trump spoke as the two Gulf states signed agreements fully regulating their relations with Israel.
The three countries hailed the deals as historic, as did Trump, whose administration helped broker them.
The Gulf states are just the third and fourth Arab countries to recognise Israel since its founding in 1948.
Trump hopes other countries will follow suit, but the Palestinians have called on them not to while their conflict remains unresolved.
For years, most Arab states have boycotted Israel, maintaining 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,” Trump told a crowd of hundreds gathered at the White House on Tuesday.
He added: “We’re here this afternoon to change the course of history.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the deals, saying, “This day is a pivot of history; it heralds a new dawn of peace.”
But 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 news agency reports.
The Israeli army said that two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel while the ceremony was underway.
Why are these agreements being hailed as ‘historic’?
Before the UAE and Bahrain, the only other Arab countries in the Middle East to recognise Israel officially were Egypt and Jordan, who in 1978 and 1994 signed peace treaties.
Mauritania, a member of the Arab League in north-west Africa, established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999 but severed ties in 2010.
All eyes will be on whether other countries in the region follow suit, above all Saudi Arabia. So far, the Saudis have signaled that they are not set.
The agreements are also likely to usher in new security ties in a region where many of the Gulf Arab states share with the Israelis a common adversary in Iran.
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