Rashid Khalidi: Israel & UAE Deal to Normalize Relations Is New Chapter in 100-Year War on Palestine

In a deal brokered by the United States, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to fully normalize relations after years of secretly working together on countering Iran and other issues. Under the deal, Israel has also agreed to temporarily halt plans to annex occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank, which had already been on hold due to international condemnation. We speak with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, who says the agreement is being falsely characterized as a peace deal. "I don't see that it has anything to do with peace," he says. "On the contrary, it makes the chance of a just, equitable and sustainable peace much, much, much harder."
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[@lauriesmyla5376]

Just what has trump done? They have been working together for years, on issues that mutually beneficial. This will not halt Israel's land thieft in Palistine!

[@pissmillahgandullah9523]

Shut Up! Actual Israel Jewish land is from Cairo to Damascus, and Baghdad!

[@tylerhackner9731]

War machine continues on again

[@tonyfat2458]

This is not a Marvel movie

[@dawnpalmby5100]

@@tonyfat2458 might not b a movie/comic but definitely has some over the top evildoers

[@tonyfat2458]

@@dawnpalmby5100 like the clintons the Obamas, John of God and Oprah

[@margritkaminsky1470]

Attempts for annexation can continue under the table, Donny!!

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Yes, the...ahem..."good guys" make backroom "Secret Protocols" to carve up territory, whilst openly innocently stating "we're just making a Non-Agression Pact"... What can possibly go wrong?

[@OsmanOsmanHan]

UAE is led by a “royal” family. Installed by the british. Easy to buy them. The people living in UAE have no say in this i guess.

[@auntijen3781]

Says alot that they're aligned against Iran which has the 2nd highest Jewish population in the Middle East

[@tinaxtony]

AuntiJen one of the only Muslim countries with Jews left Butchered and chased away from the others by the religion of peace

[@tinaxtony]

TheHomoludens yeh yeh knobhead

[@tinaxtony]

TheHomoludens is that the best you can do? Surely a vacuous little moron like yourself has better than that. Nazi?.. Am I? For one thing I'm black so that pretty much excludes me knob heard.

[@tinaxtony]

TheHomoludens cock am neither American or Israeli

[@raven113p6]

@PJ R You're forgetting China's incursion into Black Africa...the Africans are becoming more suspcious of them...but, you don't let a powerful overpopulated country like China, enter your country...they want the land and Africans are expendable...

[@ralphbernhard1757]

So I guess The Golan Heights and East Jerusalem is also going to be a part of this "historical deal" of appeasement?

[@happyjonkers8711]

I just finished your book Rashid. Great read thank you. Best wishes from us here in NZ

[@ResistEvolve]

Mike Pompeo's picture is right beside the word gluttony in the dictionary! Haha. I think that he puts butter on his cereal in the morning!

[@takfaazul5408]

Well said Mr Khalidi...

[@MrSquattingbear]

Arabs: Make peace! Israel: OK. Arabs: *suprised face*

[@ralphbernhard1757]

"to suspend"...lol To Eretz Israel fanboys, that means next year, or in 2 years...or 3...

[@josealmeida5768]

They didnt suspend nothing, they are doing right now, just see videos of people being evicted and their homes destroyed by israel.

[@Kalumbatsch]

@#TrumpTheLyingInsaneFascistBigot Ersatz Israel, that's a good one.

[@Kalumbatsch]

@Blue Star It's another word for toenail cheese, right?

[@ralphbernhard1757]

@Blue Star Eretz Israel is another term for "Greater Israel". The wet dream of the Israeli far-right, and religious fanatics. It is "God's promise" for Israel that stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. There will not be be peace until they have this Lebensraum. They will kill their own willing to compromise (see Rabin). All "peace treaties" are only considered "temporary" and all actions only "suspended". Note: I know this is only the wet dream of a small fraction of Israeli society. It is up to the majority to put them "under the boot". If not, we will have eternal crises, duress, and war.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

@Blue Star "The Land of Israel (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל‎, Modern: Eretz Yisrael, Tiberian: ʼÉreṣ Yiśrāʼēl) is the traditional Jewish name for an area of indefinite geographical extension in the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine (see also Israel (disambiguation)). The definitions of the limits of this territory vary between passages in the Hebrew Bible, with specific mentions in Genesis 15, Exodus 23, Numbers 34 and Ezekiel 47. Nine times elsewhere in the Bible, the settled land is referred as "from Dan to Beersheba", and three times it is referred as "from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt" (1 Kings 8:65, 1 Chronicles 13:5 and 2 Chronicles 7:8)." [Wiki] Nice try but...

[@antiwar8859]

Evil at it's best.

[@dtlegacy2495]

I guess peace will have to wait until real progress is made.

[@musfazahosein7463]

Yeah, and when the apartheid government of Zionist Israel confiscate all of Palestinian lands. And then world war 3.

[@iqbaltimol2676]

Dequane Tate, Peace will never come.if you really believe that Israel will want peace you are delusional.

[@nazradeenlallmohamed19]

Thanks so much Madam & Prof. Rashid!

[@wilsonlainglaing8739]

When men cry peace peace ...than comes sudden destructions.....

[@ah306]

It is called "PERSIAN GULF". Where is "the gulf"? The gulf of Mexico?

[@johnnymisbegotten]

Is that Avi Berkowitz in the photo op along with Trump's son-in-law, his bankrupty lawyer, the 'special' envoy to Iran, and the ex Hollywood movie producer? ha ha

[@Windband1]

Rashid is a boss!

[@revelation2349]

Netanyahu is very evildoer

[@dennisaur66]

Have the Palestinian authorities made any advancements with LGBTQ+ rights?

[@JonathanvG-wj1ro]

I can't believe this guy is a prof at Columbia.

[@navegantezen5983]

United against Iran, what else?

[@arthurd6495]

100 years? They didn’t have a national identity back then.

[@SuperTonyony]

Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia---the Axis Powers.

[@user-vr6io5xb9e]

“Since ISIS is broken “. You mean since ISIS completed its mission given by USA😁

[@kingofthecatnap5422]

Indeed.

[@farhadrazavi8941]

Iran is the only country to benefit from this deal, UAE government may sell it self to Israel but the people will not accept it

[@chugalongway01]

The Israelis saved Saudi Arabia head-choppers in 1967 went they humiliated and defeated Nasser and destroyed Pan Arab nationalism.

[@luxcretia2]

Thank you. This interview is very interesting

[@nancysmith1296]

Oh, man, an awful lot of hate in some of these comments.

[@rdreeves2332]

Please implement a permanent UBI now! Then we can transition to a RBE. Also support the Money Free Party and The Venus Project so we can finally go beyond politics poverty and war. That is if we wish to make it as a species.

[@Linda43]

This just one of many treaties between Israel and the Muslim world. Next: Morocco Dubai Sudan Bahrain Oman

[@DJMcG-kb4rv]

AMERIKA DESERVES TRUMP....

Damn...he really wants to do what it takes across the board to be a champion, the winner recognized by the world by receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. Smh...

[@1wer819]

Bankruptcy lawyer???

[@michaelikeogube1979]

Good work

[@Zaabi]

Meanwhile Iran is threatening UAE, occupying emirati islands and calling Emiratis traitors...... but we surely don’t have any concerns with such state

[@bearlytraincot4131]

I see Pompeo has gained a bit of weight. I suspect this is a just a dog whistle to the Evangelicals. I thought Netanyahoo was out. It's a shame that Israel has never accepted the Son of God. For if they had they would really know what it means to be called to love their neighbors. Surely the way they have treated the Palestinians has broken God's heart.

[@bearlytraincot4131]

Geez, I wasn't looking for religion lesson. I was talking about how Godless the treatment of Palestinians is.

[@bearlytraincot4131]

@@mudabbirh7067 I wrote a comment. It wasn't written to you. It was written to Evangelicals who see Israel as God's chosen people, a biblical Israel that in reality is very secular and who has found a friend in a Nationalist Trump. You'd have to have a limited grasp on history to say that religion has nothing to do with power.

[@bearlytraincot4131]

@@mudabbirh7067 there are a lot of Nationalist movements in the US and all over the world right now. Some of these conservative movements have grown out of religious trends. There are mainstream churches in the US that use Jesus for a frontman for all sorts of discriminatory behavior. To me it seems, and I'm not close enough to the situation to know, that Israel is engaged in the same sort of political conservatism that is prevalent in the US.And that our relationship with Israel in the past has been based in some erroneous religious presumptions that I believe a secular Israel has used to their advantage. When Jesus gave those two commandments he said all of the Law is hung on and encompassed in those two. I mean what is a wall really, if not a statement of attitude? I don't pretend to know how Palestine and Israek can work out their differences but I seriously doubt they should look to our King for answers.

[@drh4571]

Just look at who are surrounding trump

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

One cannot occupy the land to which they are indigenous. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🦁🕎🦁🇮🇱

[@KaiseruSoze]

That guy is difficult to follow. His words seem to contradict his meaning.

[@carolcraine5129]

1 Thessalonians 5:3 "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."

[@tonyfat2458]

I'm a trump supporter but I can tell you this Kushner is straight from the Devil... the mark of the beast is coming wormwood is coming God's judgement is coming repent now while we have the time

[@carolcraine5129]

@@tonyfat2458 Revelation 21:8 “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

[@randywatson1615]

It will be easier for emirates to go to the dome of the rock than than it will be for Palestinians. Think about that

[@cjfilmproductions]

President covid and prince bone saw made a peace deal?

[@juliemariemcintyre]

Seems ur confusing uae with saudi arabia

[@colonspiller8209]

Like most people on this page, you are confused and uninformed

[@cjfilmproductions]

@@juliemariemcintyre oh yeah i got my despotic murderouse regimes mixed up. It's difficult to tell these killer princes appart. UAE is the bastards comm8ting genocide on yemen with US weapons. Thanks for the correction.

[@cjfilmproductions]

@@colonspiller8209 i admit my mistake. I don't double down and insist the facts must be wrong. Thats the difference between you cult bitches and independent thinkers. Being wrong isn't a moral failing. Never accepting that you're wrong is .

[@cjfilmproductions]

@Tom Krohn still funny though.

[@Billiemarie1000]

Donald Trump would like to announce the historic peace deal between Sweden and Norway and his application for the Nobel prize.

[@melindadutcher212]

Agreed!!! Warren!!! Warren!!! Warren!!! She still has a plan for that.....

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

Free Palestine.... ... from the PLO & Hamas

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

I dare Rashid Khalidi to do a DNA test and see that his ancestors were in fact Jews forced to convert during the Muslim conquests of 634 AD.

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

No, a civilization first. A nation. A people. An ethnicity. And definitely a bloodline (like any endogenous group).

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

@Steffen Zander you obviously have a hard on for the hebrew national.

[@MegaAshabasha]

This unholy union cannot be allowed!!

[@MegaAshabasha]

@C K Pari well that was nonsense but at least it was correctly spelled lol

[@gloryglory8467]

THESE GUYS WANT FIGHTING FOEVER

[@raven113p6]

A world full of evil leaders who need to go...

[@mustafahussain7080]

He should worry about his runaway wife than peace with Israel or get a Jewish wife

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

Why has Palestine not accepted any of the opportunities to have their own state? I can think of six off the top of my head in the last 70 years. Free Palestine... From Hamas!

[@tehilayona4817]

🇮🇱❤🇦🇪

[@zayedalshamsi7321]

I just want to say as a citizen of the UAE that guy makes claims that can’t be backed with evidence. Second of all the gulf governments represent the people, and we support our leaders. We are Arab bedouin tribes, we will not change the way we live to please the rest of the Arab world. Before oil u didn’t care about our countries or the way we rule our selves, to be frank u didn’t want to be called Arabs a few years ago and claimed to be arabized by forces. But after oil suddenly we are all Arabs. But it doesn’t matter. As an Emirati I can proudly say that I support my government and leaders. No matter how much u say that we are not happy with our leaders, it will change nothing on the ground. People tried to change the way of ruling in the gulf and for every protester that got out against the government hundreds got out in support of the rulers. That’s why the so called Arab spring failed in the gulf. In the UAE we said we are all Khalifa, in Saudi Arabia the tribes went to the king and pledge allegiance, and in Bahrain they counter protest the traitors. We are one with the government changing them is changing us

[@Zaabi]

Indeed

[@joziewales1965]

There was no such thing as Palestine until 1948 when the Jewish state was born.

[@19258000able]

Jozie Wales Josie pls instruct yourself. I was born in Jerusalem in 1941 and my birth certificate states clearly:place of birth Jerusalem Palestine.

[@joziewales1965]

Yousef El-Hajjeh it doesn’t matter what man calls it. It’s the land promised to Abraham by YHWH for the Israelites

[@ralphbernhard1757]

@@joziewales1965 Oh bother...spot the ideologue....

[@joziewales1965]

TheHomoludens exactly. It’s called the Promised Land

[@ralphbernhard1757]

@@joziewales1965 Can you show me the signed legal documents, and photo-IDs of the involved parties? To a nation teeming with lawyers and priding itself on doing everything *legally correct* that shouldn't be a problem, right? You know, just to ensure that there is no scam taking place here....

[@zozodolewin2479]

Is he mad

[@revelation2349]

Palestinian people are Jerusalem and the followers of Jesus not the jews

[@sergiuszargarov2969]

Why can't Jordan carve a part of their huge land and give it to the Palestinians? If any of the Arab countries really cared for the Palestinians...they could solve this mess.

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

Jews are from Judea, Arabs are from Arabia. Is it really that difficult to understand?

[@theholypootischurch]

@Steffen Zander arabia=terror , anerchy ?

[@Masbelah_ben_Shimon]

@Steffen Zander lol, it existed for over 600 years. You're the type to go to a bris just to chew the foreskin in the dumpster

[@mohammadzubayer9305]

Shame on you UAE to have a relation with Israel,You Look like Saitan,Allah will punish you soon.

[@lissarodrigues8950]

There will come a day, and it's already here that this two countries or people (if they not one)will reach an agreement that both of them will be happy.🙏💝👪.

[@Zaabi]

We love people telling us how we feel

[@tamirpaz7837]

I was all with you until you demanded equal rights for both states and peoples. There is only one state right now. And in that state there are mainly one peoples. It’s what that state was formed for. If the Palestinians want to code late themselves a state they should. But they would then be treated just like any other state. If they attack another state, let’s say, Israel, they’ll get attacked or sanctioned. If they choose to keep doing that then they’ll find themselves in the same shoes as Iran and Russia. If they choose to throw out their corrupt and malicious regimes, and let things be, then they would be treated just like any other state, sanctions lifted, business ties strengthened, economic development encouraged etc.. if they want the ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’ meaning within the current land of Israel well them tough fucking luck. Good luck against the Israeli army and economic forces. Not happening. If they want prosperity, they have a clear path. Separately to all of this, Israel has to throw out its corrupt administration and stop the expansions. Both peoples are misled/lazy or both. The peoples within either side that are looking to dominate the other side for their own religious reasons should go fuck themselves and leave the rest of is alone.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

@TheHomoludens Yup. The Endsieg for the Lebensraum advocates will be assured by Wunderwaffen...

[@m_9714]

misleading information. Yemen government asked the uae for help after a COUP that happened in Yemen and the UAE is NOT fighting in Libya without an invitation from the government. Turkey is doing the same thing in Libya and most countries have relations with Israel why shouldn’t the UAE have diplomatic relations ? .

[@asahisagoiboi3517]

Lol triggered lefties...

[@deletednomas4095]

Damn the comment section loves war

[@ataturkturk4life248]

Us Turkish soldiers are ready for any actions needed to protect Turkey and Palestine from these so called arabs, they haven't seen nothing from the turkish army yet, hence why they are all running to Israel for help and protection, within 6 years you will see Turkish soilders right next to UAE borders, UAE will also sign a treaty with greece and cyprus and that will be the last straw

[@user-zf7hm1jm9r]

Erdogan is a thug. He picks a battle with Northern Syria. Picks a fight with the UAE. Now, he is picking a fight with Greece. He stages a phony coup in his own country to silence the opposition. Turkey should get a new leader.

[@Zaabi]

Don’t you have an ambassador in Israel?

[@BoydGilbreath]

trump takes full credit.

[@yeshua64]

Trump has brought peace in our time. Thank you, Mr President.

[@tonyfat2458]

Trump is a great man and president I'm Native American and I approve of this message

[@tonyfat2458]

@lesia Pellerino BETA

[@holynickskates]

Lol ok

[@tonyfat2458]

@@holynickskates Amy Goodman need to put on a mask nobody wants to look at that ugly Grill

[@Lunatic4Bizcas]

¿ Why do I get the sense that you're lying ? How could a Native American support Trump and his cabinet when some of his policies threaten Native American communities directly? Trump and his allies have policies that not only threaten Native Americans but all lives in general around the world.

[@tonyfat2458]

@@mudabbirh7067 lol are you speaking English I don't understand the words coming out of your mouth