Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died suddenly Saturday, spent his final weeks laying the groundwork for an ambitious new push to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, he told me in multiple conversations over the past several weeks. Why it matters: Graham was one of Washington's most influential and energetic foreign policy figures. He spent decades trying to shape America's role in the world and was still pursuing some of his biggest diplomatic ambitions in the final hours of his life. Zoom in: Graham saw Saudi-Israel normalization as the defining prize of a broader postwar settlement in the Middle East — one that could outlast the military campaign against Iran and fundamentally reshape the region. - He had worked…
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Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed participate in the signing of the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations [...]
He told the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, and Jordan that he wants them all to normalize relations with Israel by agreeing to the 2020 Abraham Accords.
The diplomatic agreements normalized relations between Israel and several Arab countries. Now, as part of the peace talks with Iran, Mr. Trump wants other states to join.
VIDEO SYNTHESIS / The EU has a certain perplexity watching POTUS’s recent Beijing trip from the sidelines. The Europeans had at least understood that from the MAGA perspective, China was supposed to be an existential threat to the US. Yet President Trump’s Beijing trip was signalling “normalisation” rather than “confrontation”. Against this somewhat ambiguous backdrop, some of America’s EU “allies” will no doubt see Xi’s signalling that America is the declining power — and hedge their bets accordingly. *** Hi there folks, thanks for watching! I’m Ben Harnwell, International Editor of “Steve Bannon’s WarRoom” — the Number 1 ranked US political podcast. Follow me on the world’s greatest social media app at…
President Trump’s first-term “Maximum Pressure” policies and aggressive diplomacy significantly lowered tensions with North Korea and set a path toward denuclearization and normalization of relations. […] Source