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no bull and the aftermath.

There's going to be increasing an open collaboration between Israeli and Emirati officials.

And so even if we get to a point where there's some relaxation of American economic sanctions

as a result of new diplomacy between Washington and Tehran, it's unlikely that we'll ever

see Dubai revert to its prior position as Iran's central banker and Iran's sort of port

to the rest of the world.

I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast August 17, 2020.

It was a surprise announcement last week.

The United Arab Emirates and Israel are normalizing relations and Israel is putting on hold its

plans for annexation of West Bank territory.

We put together a quick all Brookings conversation on the subject and its diverse implications

for different actors.

Scott Anderson, LawFair, senior editor, Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist who is acting head

of the foreign policy program at Brookings.

Natan Sachs who runs the Brookings Center for Middle East policy and had he ummer a non-resident

senior fellow at Brookings who served as the United States deputy special envoy for Israeli

Palestinian negotiations.

We covered a lot of ground.

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