The Abraham Accords, in 2020, indeed constituted a turning point in the history of Arab-Palestinian relations. Previously, the majority of Arab-Muslim countries camped on the line drawn in 2002 by Saudi Arabia with the Arab Peace Initiative (proposed by Abdallah, then regent), which subordinated the recognition of Israel for all these countries to the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders (Gaza and West Bank). This initiative gradually withered away, for several reasons: the division of the Palestinian camp, political and geographical from 2007, distrust of Iran’s growing influence among certain Palestinian factions, including the Hamas, as well as the arrival to power, notably in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, of a new generation of leaders without any sentimental link with the Palestinian cause and attracted on the contrary by Israeli economic and technological successes. These countries, like the majority of Western countries after the failure of the peace process, adhered to the thesis of a status quo which made it possible to ignore diplomacy and the inevitable disappearance of the Palestinian national movement. The final blow to the Arab Peace Initiative was to be delivered by his nephew, Mohammed Ben Salman, with normalization between Israel and the Saudi kingdom. It has been postponed for the moment, but nothing says that the dynamics of the Abraham Accords will not resume when the necessarily precarious calm returns. Let us point out that the countries which have established relations with Israel have never actually been at war against the Jewish state, and that the step is therefore much easier to take than the peaces concluded with Egypt and Jordan.
more than 1,350 people killed and 6,000 injured in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army does not rule out a “land maneuver”
