The biggest test for the flawed Abraham Accords
JVL Introduction
Trump still claims the Abraham Accords as a positive achievement of his 1st Presidency but there has always been much to criticise about them: that they were a blatant attempt at normalisation and totally excluded the Palestinians are just the most obvious. Now Israel is making it more and more difficult for the Arab regimes to continue ignoring their own populations and increasingly their own interests, not least as, eg Qatar, has come under direct attack itself.
Continuing to support trade and other relations with Israel as it is increasingly seen as a rogue if not pariah state is becoming increasingly difficult for Arab regimes. We can only hope that even these most compliant regimes will now actually distance themselves from these agreements?
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This article was originally published by The New Arab on Wed 17 Sep 2025. Read the original here.
Five years on, could Israeli aggression sink Abraham Accords?
Five years after the Abraham Accords, Israeli wars and the Doha strike test Arab ties with Israel as anger grows over sidelined Palestinians.
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It doesn’t seem very long since Quatar was being bombed by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, so it might be surprising if they showed solidarity at this point. But perhaps that doesn’t matter, because that gold-plated gift-plane has put the World Ruler on Doha’s side?