US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the agreements that will be signed today, Tuesday, at the White House between the UAE and Bahrain on the one hand, and Israel on the other hand, as a remarkable achievement, while the Palestinians describe it as a stab in the back, and Tel Aviv says it will generate billions of dollars for its economy.

The signing of the normalization agreements is taking place at the White House in the presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed and Bahraini Abdul Latif Al-Zayani, 7 weeks before the US presidential elections, in which Trump hopes to win a second term.

Pompeo said, in an interview with Fox News, that these Gulf states have realized that the common threat from the Republic of Iran is very real, and that they are now working together to build security, economic and real ties between these countries.

In response to a question about the presence of Saudi Arabia at the head of these deals, Pompeo expressed confidence that there are many other countries that will follow the steps of the UAE and Bahrain.

"The timing is not specified ... we will see, I hope that will be soon."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said before leaving Israel that the peace agreements with Abu Dhabi and Manama would generate billions of dollars in investment and economic cooperation for the Israeli economy.

The Israeli government distributed to its ministers a position paper to express it while making statements to the press regarding the normalization agreement between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain.

The paper included several basic points, such as stressing that the agreement is historic, the beginning of a new era in the Middle East, and representing the success of Israel's regional policy on the basis of peace for peace, in addition to stressing the great achievement in being able to achieve a peace agreement within one month, and what will happen. From economic and tourism agreements and shortening distances between Israel and the East, by opening Saudi airspace to Israeli aircraft.

The paper also included an affirmation of the change that the normalization agreements bring to Israel.

As it is no longer an enemy but an important partner for stability in the Middle East.

The Israeli newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, quoted an unnamed official in the Israeli delegation in Washington as saying that the details of the agreement with the UAE and Bahrain will not be published until after the signing of today, Tuesday, attributing this to the "sensitivity" involved.

Bahrain's interests

For his part, Bahraini Interior Minister Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa said that establishing relations with Israel aims for what he called "protecting Bahrain's supreme interests and strengthening the strategic partnership with Washington amid the constant threat from Iran."

The statement said, "Iran has chosen the behavior of imposing hegemony in several forms, and it has posed a constant danger to harm our internal security," noting that "it is wise to anticipate the danger and deal with it."

The minister added, in a statement, that "this matter is not abandoning the Palestinian cause ... it is for the sake of enhancing the security of Bahrainis and the stability of their economy."

In the context, various regions of Bahrain witnessed night demonstrations rejecting normalization on the eve of the signing of the agreement with Israel in Washington.

The demonstrators raised slogans denouncing the agreement, which they described as a treason agreement between the Bahraini regime and Israel, and they raised banners denouncing normalization.

Stab in the back

The Palestinians, who considered the normalization agreements a "stab in the back" by the UAE and Bahrain, called for Tuesday's demonstrations as a "black day" in the history of the Arab world.

The Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat, also believed on Monday that the UAE and Bahrain agreement with Israel is peace in exchange for protection.

In an interview with CNN, Erekat said, "This step we can not call a peace treaty or peace for peace ... it is peace in exchange for protection ... The United States, which is an ally of a number of Arab countries, plays this role."

He added that Jared Kushner, an advisor and son-in-law to US President Donald Trump, told a number of decision-makers in the Arab world that they should bring Israel, and his theory is to create an Arab-Israeli NATO in the region, and this is extremely dangerous, according to Erekat.

On Saudi Arabia's position, Erekat said: Its position is clear and specific, and it was defined by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and by the Crown Prince, Prince Muhammad bin Salman.

All of them said their position was clear and specific, and the last call between King Salman and President Trump was that resolving the Palestinian issue first and then normalization, ending the occupation first and then normalization, and adhering to the Arab peace initiative.

We are categorically believing that Saudi Arabia will not change this position at all, and realizes that Arab security is achieved in the hands of the Arabs, and we hope that the countries that have gone in this direction will rethink and back down from these positions.