The Long Road to Peace

The Dispatch Podcast

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, Israel signed two historic peace agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in a major step toward greater diplomacy in the Middle East. Though the Trump administration played a crucial role in brokering both peace deals—with the signing ceremonies themselves taking place in the White House—media coverage of the deals has been scarce, begrudging, and dismissive of the president’s involvement in the negotiations. How much credit should the Trump administration get for facilitating the deal? And more importantly, will other countries follow suit in normalizing relations with Israel? “The UAE is like a beta test of the bigger deal with Saudi Arabia if it is to come,” David explains on today’s episode. “This is sort of dipping the toe in the waters.” As we inch toward November 3, will this deal be a major selling point for Trump’s re-election campaign? According to Sarah, probably not. “Our politics goes in cycles of foreign policy having domestic policy relevance, normally when we’re talking about having our people overseas,” Sarah explains, “This is not one of those elections.” Much to the Trump administration’s chagrin, this deal is simply not getting the coverage it deserves and many Americans who are more focused on domestic issues may never even hear about it at all. After a foray into the foreign policy world, our podcast hosts discuss The Big Ten’s return, the conspiratorial trajectory of American politics, many Republicans’ conviction that Joe Biden is nothing but a cardboard cutout for the progressive far-left, and … Grover Cleveland! Show Notes: -The Remnant episode with Ken Pollack, yesterday’s Dispatch Live, and “Steve Bannon Is Behind Bogus Study That China Created COVID” by Adam Rawnsley in The Daily Beast. -Make sure to take advantage of The Dispatch 30 Day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.0	on the Middle East peace deal, then we've got Joe Biden. Is he a vehicle for the far left
0:58.7	if he gets elected? And if Trump loses Trump 2024 plus conspiracy theories and chores.
1:07.5	Let's dive right in. Steve Middle East peace deal, Nobel prize. What do you make of it?
1:29.5	Is this a good deal? Yeah, I think it's a very good deal. It's a legitimate accomplishment
1:35.6	by the Trump administration. The fact that you now have the UAE and Bahrain, and I think
1:42.8	the president is right when he predicts that others will likely follow, saying in public
1:48.3	in effect, what had been private relationships talking about them publicly in the way that
1:53.8	they had been conducting them privately is a huge positive for the Trump administration,
1:59.8	for the United States, for the world, for the Middle East. And I'm struck by a couple
2:04.7	things as we've seen the coverage of this. The coverage of this has been, I would say, scarce
2:12.8	and grudging. The lead in to all of the coverage has been, you know, to downplay this, rather
2:19.9	than just explain to people what has happened here and why it's significant. So much the coverage
2:26.6	has been almost dismissive of the accomplishment. Well, President Trump was close to Benjamin
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