(Ha'aretz) Anshel Pfeffer - They said the Abraham Accords were an empty PR stunt by the Trump administration, and that once someone else was in charge in the White House, the old diplomatic orthodoxy would return, whereby any real engagement between Israel and the Arab states would be conditional on the Palestinian issue. During his visit to Israel last week, President Biden made it clear that regional cooperation between Israel and the Arab regimes was at the top of his agenda. The Jerusalem Declaration he signed Thursday called "to expand the circle of peace to include ever more Arab and Muslim states." There will be those who will continue to think that normalization is reversible and that at some point the Emiratis and Saudis will walk away. But in the last two years, we've had periods of tension around the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount and an all-out war in Gaza, and not a peep has been heard from that direction. So far, it seems they are not conditioning ties with Israel on the situation of the Palestinians, and there's no indication it will change in the foreseeable future. In the real world, the Israeli-Arab conflict is over and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict no longer warrants the support, sympathy and political capital it may once have enjoyed.
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