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The protests against Bahrains' normalisation of relations with Israel are a rare display of dissent in the small oil-rich kingdom.
'Rather than focus on the Palestinians, which is what every president has thought they had to do to negotiate peace, he focused on Iran,' Nikki Haley said on Trump.
Dubai's deputy police chief tweeted that "nine million Jews are better than 400 million Arabs" in his latest controversial comments following the UAE-Israel peace deal.
Israel's decision to re-enter lockdown for three weeks on Friday, hours before Jewish New Year, has been met with protests in Tel Aviv.
"We're going to move ahead, we hope, with designating Qatar a major non-NATO ally," a senior US official told reporters
Comment: Bahrain's decision to normalise ties with Israel is a boon for authoritarianism and autocracy, and one that endangers Arabs both domestically and regionwide, writes Emile Nakhleh.
Israel is considering extending its Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline 700 kilometres southeast to the Yanbu oil refineries in Saudi Arabia.
Comment: Paris has kept its extensive collaboration with the Emiratis curiously quiet. The 2019 revelations on UAE's shadowy behaviour in Yemeni might help explain why, writes Eva Thiebaud.
The anti-normalisation 'Palestinian Charter' has garnered over a million signatures in little over a day.
US President Donald Trump revealed that a White House worker tested positive for coronavirus.
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