For comedic reasons that only he can understand, HBO’s John Oliver devoted most of his time on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to covering the career of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During his lengthy diatribe, Oliver would also take aim at one of President Trump’s biggest first term accomplishments: the Abraham Accords. According to Oliver, the accords are to be diminished as a ‘fuck you” to the Palestinians.
Oliver claimed that “Bibi's had a lot of success in pushing America, particularly with Republican presidents, and especially with Donald Trump. In fact, it was during Trump's first term that Netanyahu celebrated what he considered his greatest foreign policy triumph, the Abraham Accords, which normalized diplomatic relations with several Arab states, most notably the UAE and Bahrain. It was a plan supported by Jared Kushner, who Trump, of course, put in charge of 'fixing the Middle East' during his first term, even though he always looks like he just got his hair cut while sitting in a plastic race car chair.”
However, Oliver was not about to start praising this breakthrough, “The thing about the Abraham Accords was they got those other nations to abandon the longstanding condition among many Arab countries that relations with Israel could only come after the establishment of a Palestinian state. Netanyahu's thinking was: If you can just get enough Arab nations to do that, you could basically freeze the Palestinians out. He's been trying to get Saudi Arabia to sign on next, but it's worth knowing many observers have warned these accords were always just going to end up further marginalizing Palestinians.”
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