While there is little gainsaying that the UAE-Israel deal will have some important implications for the Middle East, the wide-spread perception that the US played a direct role in facilitating this breakthrough appears to be a complete misreading of the process that actually produced this deal. While the US did have its own peace plan, known as the ‘deal of the century’, the actual deal is far from what the Trump administration had envisioned and proposed. On top of it is the fact that the UAE-Israel have a history of secret relations and that these were largely independent of the US or the Trump administration. Besides it, the UAE is not the only country Israel has established relations with, although it is to-date the only Gulf state that has recognized Israel. What it means is Israel has been working with several Gulf states for quite some time and that the deal with the UAE is a result of these secret relations, spanning over many years, if not many decades..........https://journal-neo.org/2020/08/24/d...e-israel-deal/