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		</div><p>US President Donald Trump’s chief Middle East adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner has trumpeted the recent agreement by Israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish diplomatic relations as a historic breakthrough.</p>
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<p>Mr Kushner said “the stage is set” for other Arab states to follow suit but gave no indication that any new deals were imminent.</p>
<p>Appearing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US national security adviser Robert O’Brien, Mr Kushner spoke a day before he is to join a senior Israeli delegation on the first commercial flight from Israel to the UAE.</p>
<p>The flight holds great symbolic value and is a key step in what is expected to be full normalisation between Israel and the UAE.</p>
<p>The August 13 announcement makes the UAE the third Arab country to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, and the first to do so in over 25 years.</p>
<p>It reflects a shifting Middle East in which shared concerns over Iran have overtaken traditional wall-to-wall Arab support for the Palestinians.</p>
<p>“Today obviously we celebrate a historic breakthrough for peace,” Mr Kushner said, adding that the deal will create “previously unthinkable” economic, security and religious co-operation.</p>
<p>“While this peace agreement was thought by many to be impossible, the stage is now set for even more,” he said.</p>
<p>“We must seize that optimism and we must continue to push to make this region achieve the potential that it truly has.”</p>
<p>Israel and the UAE have moved quickly to cement their ties over the past two weeks. Almost immediately, they opened direct phone lines, and Cabinet ministers have held phone conversations.</p>
<p>On Saturday, the UAE formally ended its commercial boycott of Israel, although the two countries have quietly conducted business for years.</p>
<p>Monday’s flight of an El Al plane from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi will be the first known flight of an Israeli commercial airliner from Israel to the Emirates.</p>
<p>The two Middle East countries are expected to sign a formal agreement at the White House in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>But so far, predictions by Israeli and American officials, including Mr Kushner, that other Arab countries would follow the UAE have not yet materialised.</p>
<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo toured the region last week, stopping in Sudan, Bahrain and Oman — three countries widely seen as candidates to establish ties with Israel — but appeared to leave empty-handed.</p>
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<p>The flurry of US diplomatic activity comes as the Trump administration presses ahead with ambitious plans to promote Arab-Israeli rapprochement even in the absence of a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which had long been seen as a prerequisite for Israel to reach peace deals with all of its Arab neighbours.</p>
<p>Mr Netanyahu said the agreement with the UAE would bring “unbridled” trade and opportunities.</p>
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