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Oct 2020
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Despite Netanyahu’s claims, normalizatio...

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Ben Caspit talks with popular diplomatic analyst Barak Ravid on demonstrations in Israel, developments in Azerbaijan and the peace agreements signed with the Emirates and Bahrain. Ravid argues that contrary to affirmations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that the peace agreements broke the old 'peace-for-land' paradigm, normalization with Arab world is directly connected to the Palestinian issue, and totally connected to the two-state solution. Ravid says that what really happened with these deals was the United Arab Emirates spearheading efforts to stop Netanyahu from moving forward with his annexation plan. 

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