Stop chasing Saudi Arabia. The future of the Abraham Accords isn’t Arab

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The Abraham Accords have fallen off Washington and Jerusalem’s priority tables. Riyadh has frozen accession behind a Palestinian-state demand that neither capital accepts, while Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and Turkey reject the club entirely. Yet U.S. State Department briefers still shop stale Gulf tours as professional peace processors treat missing Arab signatures as the only metric that counts.

The midterm elections sit six weeks away. New recognition cannot clear that clock, but formalizing existing ties can. The Accords must preserve their initial core while evolving into a mechanism to end Israel’s post-October 7 isolation.

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