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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, August 14,

2020, I am John Pauldhord, the editor of commentary with me as always associate editor Noah Rothman,

Hi Noah. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen,

Hykristine. Hi John. And the author of our blockbuster piece now at commentarymagazine.com.

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By yes, this is a revolution at commentarymagazine.com. Read it now also there, a very fine blog post

by our own Noah Rothman about the remarkable diplomatic geopolitical development yesterday.

The surprise normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as

brokered by the Trump administration. I'm going to let Noah sort of go through the details, but

here is the bottom line. The bottom line is that for 50 years or more, it has been axiomatic

in the world of conventional foreign policy thinking that there could be no normalization of

relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors or the Arab countries around it or in the Middle East

without a final resolution of the problem of Israel and the Palestinians. This is as holy writ,

as holy writ gets in foreign policy. It has never been true. Every breakthrough, every change

in the Middle East has involved things happening without respect to the resolution of the problem

between Israel and the Palestinians. The peace treaty with Egypt, the peace treaty with Jordan.

And now the normalization relations with the United Arab Emirates, which follows seven or eight

years in which, as we know, really, really five years from which, as we know, privately quietly behind

the scenes in hundreds of ways great and small, there has been an entant between Israel and the

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