Former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley hailed Wednesday the landmark normalization deals signed between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain this week, asserting US President Donald Trump was able to make them happen due to his focus on Iran and Arab leaders' "trust" in him.
"This is no fluke; this is pretty remarkable and historic," Haley told Fox News a day after the Abraham Accords were signed at the White House.
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The former diplomat distinguished between Trump's approach to other former US presidents.
"The difference was, go back to the first foreign policy speech the president gave, it was to the Arab community, and he said: Let us all work together in the name of peace," Haley said.
"And he did something no other president has done. Rather than focus on the Palestinians, which is what every president has thought they had to do to negotiate peace, he focused on Iran," she explained.
"He brought all of the Arab countries together and said: Let's all fight against terrorism. And that's what this was. This was about the fact that this peace deal came together simply out of the fact they trusted the president.
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"They trusted him because he got out of the Iran deal; they trusted him because he was honest with them; they trusted him because he showed strength in a time when we needed it," she concluded.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
