Amanpour: Jared Kushner, Anwar Gargash, Vali Nasr and Marietje Schaake

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week's landmark peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has divided opinion across the Middle East, and the world. Christiane Amanpour speaks to Jared Kushner, Senior Adviser to President Trump, about America’s role in the negotiations and the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Then, Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, discusses the reactions from the region and what the new diplomatic agreement might means for UAE-Israeli relations. Vali Nasr, Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Marietje Schaake, former European Parliament member for the Netherlands, join Christiane to talk about international reactions to the deal, and how this move fits into the broader framework of U.S foreign policy. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunfor here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	The people of Israel trust President Trump to make the right decisions that are in the best interests of
0:14.0	Israel's security and prosperity.
0:16.0	I speak with President Trump's right-hand man and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, about the
0:20.9	landmark Israel UAE peace deal and election politics.
0:25.0	And we get details of the plan with Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates Minister for Foreign Affairs.
0:32.0	Plus, what in the world? American foreign policy in the time of
0:36.4	Trump and beyond? Middle East Scholar Valinasa and former Dutch MEP, Maric J. Shaquake,
0:41.9	join me. And finally,
0:44.0	The show must go on,
0:50.0	award-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Weber, plays his part to help program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London the last Arab
1:14.4	Israeli peace deal was with Jordan a quarter century ago and the landmark new
1:19.6	deal Israel has struck with the United Arab Emirates highlights the shifting political dynamics in the region,
1:25.9	which is broadly marked by a rivalry between Shia Iran and its allies,
1:30.5	and Sunni Saudi Arabia and Gulf nations.
1:33.9	The reaction falls along those lines too.
1:36.9	Iran, Turkey and the Palestinians denounce the accord with the Iranians calling it strategically stupid.
1:44.0	Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls it an aggression on the Palestinian people.
1:50.0	But the deal's most immediate impact would be to stave off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
1:56.4	Netanyahu's plan to annex huge chunks of the occupied West Bank for now. In exchange the UAE will establish full normalised relations
2:06.6	with Israel and European powers like France are calling it a positive step that
2:11.5	should kick-start peace negotiations between Israel and the
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