Even a right-wing cabinet stocked with ultra-nationalists may not derail the deepening relationships
work as a lawyer, Itamar Ben-Gvir represented Israeli Jews accused of hate crimes against Palestinians. He heads a party that promotes Jewish supremacy between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean. Yet on December 1st he was among the dignitaries invited to celebrate the national day of the United Arab Emirates at a Tel Aviv hotel.had to denounce its guest. On January 3rd Mr Ben-Gvir, by then Israel’s national-security minister, went to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem’s most volatile flashpoint.
Mr Netanyahu’s new government offers a chance to test these competing theories. Along with Mr Ben-Gvir, it includes the likes of Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, who once called for segregating Jews and Arabs in maternity wards lest his wife be forced to give birth next to an “enemy”. Many Arabs still support the Palestinian cause: witness the displays of solidarity at the World Cup in Qatar. A poll by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a pro-Israeli think-tank in Washington,, found that just 25% of Emiratis and 20% of Bahrainis now approve of the Abraham accords, down from 47% and 45% in 2020. Half a million Israelis have visited theBut views have also shifted in other ways, especially among elites.
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