Will Suez Canal feel impact of UAE-Israel normalization? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Hani Sameer

Hani Sameer

Sep 25, 2020

This picture taken on November 17, 2019 shows the Liberia-flagged container ship RDO Concord sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversary of the canal's inauguration. - One hundred and fifty years after the Suez Canal opened, the international waterway is hugely significant to the economy of modern-day Egypt, which nationalised it in 1956. The canal, dug in the 19th century using "rudimentary tools" and which links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, — This picture shows the Liberia-flagged container ship RDO Concord sailing through the Suez Canal in the canal's central hub city of Ismailia on the 150th anniversary of the canal's inauguration, Egypt, Nov. 17, 2019. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain signed Sept. 15 an agreement to normalize relations with Israel at the White House, under the auspices of US President Donald Trump, who hailed it as “the dawn of a new Middle East.”

During the signing ceremony, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said that the fruits of this deal will be reflected in the entire region.

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