The Abraham Accords: One Year Later
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It’s been a year since Donald Trump sat on the South Lawn of the White House with Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
They all gathered in the September sun to sign what’s been dubbed the ‘Abraham Accords’, an agreement between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain to normalize relations, establish embassies and, essentially, begin trading relationships with one another. Since then, Morocco and Sudan have joined too.
The agreements have been widely criticized by Palestinian activists and politicians, who see them as the Gulf states relieving pressure on Israel over their occupation of the West Bank and besiegement of Gaza, together with the abuses that have come to characterize Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians over the decades.
In this episode of The Gateway, Nicholas Prichard spoke to Dr. Guy Burton, Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and an Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Vesalius College in Brussels. Guy has worked in universities in the Middle East and writes on China’s interests in the region, too. Nicholas began by asking how Dr. Burton would characterize the Abraham Accords one year on.
