Geee Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Real Clear Politics TEL AVIV—Last Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet announced his intention to dissolve the fragile eight-party coalition government that he has led since June 2021. As it heads for a fifth election in three-and-a-half years, Israel will continue to reap the fruits of the Abraham Accords. And the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will persist. The next elected prime minister should leverage the accords to ease the conflict. This summer marks the second anniversary of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and between Israel and Bahrain. Promoting security, prosperity, and toleration in a notoriously volatile region, the historic agreements brokered by the Trump administration in the summer of 2020 – which led to normalization agreements within a few months between Israel and Sudan, Morocco, and Kosovo – represent a huge success for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. The Palestinian Authority, however, remains dead-set opposed to the accords while friends of the Palestinian cause condemn the agreements as a betrayal of Palestinians’ rights and interests. This all-too-typical rejectionism should not deter the parties to the Abraham Accords. Even with minimal Palestinian cooperation, Israel, its Gulf partners, and the United States can enhance regional stability by taking steps to promote Palestinian self-government and prosperity consistent with Israel’s baseline security imperatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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