Robert O’Brien, national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, said the Trump administration sought to build "political capital” with the Zionist regime first by moving the U.S. embassy to and recognizing the occupying regime’s so-called sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
"We couldn’t allow the Palestinians to stand as a roadblock to a broader Middle East peace,” O’Brien said, describing for the first time since leaving office the strategy behind Trump’s diplomatic moves.
O’Brien’s remarks came during a panel discussion hosted by the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington that included President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
"So we went to our friends and partners and allies and we built political capital. And one way we built political capital in Israel was by moving the embassy to Jerusalem (al-Quds), one way we did it was by recognizing the Golan Heights, as Israeli territory,” O’Brien said.
Former President Trump forged normalization agreements between the Zionist regime, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in September 2020. Additional agreements were reached to include Morocco in December and Sudan in January.
Trump had announced in 2017 the U.S. would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to al-Quds and recognize it as the ‘capital’ of the occupying regime. The move was widely condemned elsewhere as detrimental to internationally supported Palestinian interests.
Trump unilaterally recognized the regime’s so-called sovereignty over the Golan in 2019, contravening international law. The regime occupied the territory from Syria in the Six Day War of 1967.
"These were facts that were never going to change on the ground. Al-Quds was never going to change being the capital of Israel. Israel was never going to give the Golan Heights back to (Syrian President Bashar) Assad,” O’Brien said.
"We did the same thing. We built political capital with Bahrain, with Morocco with the UAE by letting them know that we would stand with them,” O’Brien said.
Other Arab states are likely to join the Abraham Accords as they see economic benefits, O’Brien said.
Kosovo-Zionist Regime Ties
In the latest development, Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla said her country will establish formal diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime next week.
In a statement released on Friday, Haradinaj-Stublla announced that she will hold a virtual signing ceremony with her Zionist counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi, on February 1 after a deal brokered by the U.S. last year.
Muslim-majority Kosovo and the occupying regime recognized each other in September 2020 at a summit of Kosovo-Serbia leaders at the White House in the presence of then U.S. president Donald Trump.
Palestinians have condemned the "peace pacts” as an act of treason and a stab in the back in their struggle against the Zionist occupation.
In another development on Friday, the regime’s so-called security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat spoke on the phone with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and the two agreed to exchange delegations in February to advance their normalization accord.
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