Abraham Accords
“If we have peace with Saudi Arabia, we are effectively going to bring an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict,” Benjamin Netanyahu said.
“Until now, the E.U. has been on the sidelines.” said MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen, vice chairman of the Delegation for relations with Israel.
“Relations with Bahrain are at the center of Israeli consensus,” Regional Cooperation Minister Issawi Frej said.
Israeli experts joined colleagues from Morocco, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in Manama for the inaugural Arab International Cybersecurity Exhibition and Conference.
“The Biden Administration sees its job as taking the accords from a startup to a real operation,” said U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, a co-chair of the Games.
If they succeed to silence a former parliament member with “thousands of people” behind him, “no one will be able to speak for peace,” says Mithal al-Alusi.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Danon said the time has come to share the fruits of the accords with other nations.
The summit celebrated the seismic change that the agreements, which normalized relations between Israel and several Arab countries, have brought to the Middle East and North Africa.
This trip sought to change the paradigm of polarization between American Muslims and Jews through education, engagement and dialogue.
Avi Hasson, who accompanied Israeli President Isaac Herzog on his recent trip to the Gulf, explains why relations with Bahrain have been slower to take off than those with the UAE.
The international conference brought together leading Jewish, Christian and Muslim figures to foster social change and promote diplomatic ties in the Middle East.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejects BDS and unilateral actions at the U.N., but tells J Street conference the Abraham Accords can be “leveraged” to pressure Israel
