Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanayhu and the historic Abraham Accords

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

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Yesterday was a historic day in the Middle East. The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, met the de facto leader of the United Arab Emirates, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed during the first ever official visit to the UAE from Israel. This took place 15 months after the Abraham Accords, the biggest breakthrough in Middle East Peace in a quarter century, normalized diplomatic relations between Israel, the UAE and three other Arab countries. And, the creator economy boomed in 2021. Plus, federal student loans are coming back. Guests: Axios' Barak Ravid and Sara Fischer. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Julia Redpath, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Alex Sugiura, Sabeena Singhani, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Jayk Cherry, and David Toledo. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.

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0:29.8	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, December 14th. I'm Naila Boodoo. Here's what
0:36.2	you need to know today. The creator economy
0:38.4	boomed in 2021. Plus, federal student loan payments are coming back. But first, today's one big
0:45.6	thing. New insight into Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the historic Abraham Accords.
0:56.3	Yesterday was a historic day in the Middle East.
0:59.0	The Israeli Prime Minister, Nftali Bennett, met the de facto leader of the United Arab
1:03.5	Emirates, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, during the first ever official visit to the UAE from
1:09.4	Israel.
1:10.5	This is happening 15 months after the Abraham
1:12.8	Accords, the biggest breakthrough in Middle East peace in a quarter century. It normalized diplomatic
1:18.4	relations between Israel, the UAE, and three other Arab countries. It turns out this
1:23.8	important agreement was almost accidental. And that story is the focus of
1:28.2	season three of Axios' podcast, How It Happened, reported by Barack Ravid. Hi, Barack.
1:34.7	Hey, Naila. How important was the relationship between former President Trump and former
1:40.7	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to achieving the Abraham Accords.
1:45.7	It's actually pretty amazing that they were at the lowest point of their relationship
1:51.7	dealing with a real clash between Israel and the U.S. at the time,
1:57.7	and they managed to turn this huge potential crisis into a historic diplomatic
2:06.1	breakthrough and it was never planned like that at that point in time Trump was not a big
2:12.7	fan of Netanyahu anymore it built on a lot of frustration that Trump had about Netanyahu, starting with the launch of his peace plan in January 2020 at the White House.
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