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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Last Monday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett paid the first official trip by an Israeli leader to the United Arab Emirates, where he laughed and joked with its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed. Some Israeli pundits billed Bennett’s historic visit as a sign that the Mideast region had permanently changed, with Arab Sunni states aligned with Israel as a hedge against Iranian aggression. Yet only a week before Bennett’s plane landed, the UAE’s national security adviser travelled to Tehran to heal a five-year rift with Iran. The Iranian foreign minister crowed that the two countries were turning ove…