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Palestinians with a banner showing Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan wearing an Israeli flag, during a rally against the United Arab Emirates' normalization deal with Israel, in the West Bank village of Turmusaya near Ramallah, Aug. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
October 13, 2020, 10:52 pm
Top UAE official laments PA’s ingratitude after Abbas envoy rants on Israel ties
Anwar Gargash slams Palestinians’ ‘lack of loyalty’ after Ramallah diplomat calls Emirati leader a ‘little dictator’ and says UAE, Bahrain have ‘become more Israeli than Israelis’
By Raphael Ahren
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan gives a scathing lecture criticizing the Palestinian leadership on al-Arabiya on Monday, October 5, 2020 (Screenshot: Youtube)
October 6, 2020, 6:09 am
Saudi prince: Palestinian leaders have been ‘failures’ for 70 years
In unsparing interview, Bandar bin Sultan, an ex-envoy to US and spy chief, says Palestinians took Riyadh’s support for granted, slams ‘reprehensible’ criticism of UAE-Israel deal
By Aaron Boxerman
Palestinians protest against the peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 15 September 2020. (Flash90)
September 29, 2020, 1:41 pm
A peace paradox: Sidelined Palestinians may finally have their leverage
Israel’s inroads in the Arab world are based on strategic necessity. The Palestinians can’t stop the new peacemaking, but they can set a high price for it
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Anwar Gargash, the Emirati minister of state for foreign affairs, at the UAE Security Forum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
September 15, 2020, 6:06 pm
Top UAE official: Peace treaty will only refer to two-state solution indirectly
Once anger over normalization with Jerusalem subsides, Palestinians will realize that UAE and Bahrain have more ‘leverage’ to pressure Israel into concessions, Anwar Gargash says
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli model May Tager, left, covers herself with an Israeli flag next to Anastasia Bandarenka, a Dubai-based model who covers herself in a UAE flag on the set of a photo shoot in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, September 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
September 13, 2020, 1:43 pm
Emiratis are ‘enthusiastic’ about peace with Israel, senior UAE official says
‘There needs to be trust’ for bilateral ties to flourish, Hend al-Otaiba says on controversial F-35 deal with US; vows Abu Dhabi’s support for Palestinians ‘will never diminish’
By Raphael Ahren
The deputy chairman of the Dubai Police and General Security, Lt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim (Via Twitter)
September 7, 2020, 12:08 pm
Top Dubai police official: Abbas not arbiter of who can have ties with Israel
Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, who has vacillated between support for Jewish state and anti-Semitic rants, says nations are not ‘at the command’ of Palestinian leader
By Raphael Ahren
An Emirati man next to the Bather, also called Venus, statue by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, 1710-1795, at the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
September 3, 2020, 6:43 am
Palestinians lead Arab artists to boycott UAE culture events after Israel deal
Encouraged by Abbas’s PA, cultural figures and intellectuals take a stand against Emirati-backed exhibits and awards, accusing the UAE of betraying the Palestinian cause
By AFP and TOI staff
An Emirati official stands near an El Al plane that carried a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalization accord, upon its arrival at the Abu Dhabi airport, in the first-ever direct flight from Israel to the UAE, on August 31, 2020. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
September 1, 2020, 6:46 am
Hosting Israeli delegation, UAE tells Palestinians it still backs their cause
Emirati FM tries to reassure Palestinians they have not been betrayed, as his country holds working groups with Israeli officials on wide-ranging Jerusalem-Abu Dhabi cooperation
By TOI staff
Fireworks explode at the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building during an event to celebrate the Dubai Expo 2020 One Year to Go, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 20, 2019. (Kamran Jebreili/AP)
August 18, 2020, 8:43 am
Palestinians to boycott Dubai Expo world fair over ties with Israel
PA Prime Minister Shtayyeh says measure a protest against UAE’s decision to normalize relations with ‘occupying power’
By TOI staff and Agencies
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and UAE's deputy commander-in-chief of the armed forces, at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 24, 2016. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool photo via AP/File)
August 18, 2020, 6:38 am
The Palestinians weren’t betrayed by the UAE. They were simply left behind
There’s a lesson for the Palestinians in the normalization agreement: Israel can be pressured and swayed, but not by those champions of the Palestinian cause who seek to destroy it
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Palestinians burn pictures of U.S. President Donald Trump, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest against the United Arab Emirates' deal with Israel, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Friday, August 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
August 14, 2020, 5:40 pm
Erekat: I never expected this poison dagger to come from an Arab country
Ramallah says Israel-UAE deal ‘destroys’ prospect of peace between Israel and Palestinians and undermines chances of a Palestinian state
By Josef Federman
Palestinians protest Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, in Jericho on June 22, 2020. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
June 24, 2020, 3:01 am
Poll shows Palestinians reject annexation, but divided on how best to oppose it
Eighty-eight percent oppose Trump Peace Plan, according to new survey, with a slight majority supporting a return to ‘armed struggle’ in response
By TOI staff
A cargo plane operated by Etihad Airways, carrying medical aid for Palestinians related to the coronavirus COVID-19 disease, prepares to land at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on June 9, 2020. (Jack Guez/AFP)
June 11, 2020, 8:27 am
Palestinians again refuse planeload of virus aid from UAE
Palestinian Authority official says they will not accept medical equipment because flight was coordinated directly between Israel and Emirates
By AFP and TOI staff
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