As the world awaited a possible deal between the US and Iran last week, President Donald Trump launched a fresh angle — that any deal would have to be contingent on a host of regional powers joining the Abraham Accords, meaning normalization with Israel. His social media post said: “It should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords.

When US President Donald Trump unexpectedly called on a number of Muslim-majority states to join the Abraham Accords in a social media post suggesting the move could pave the way…

Expanding the Abraham Accords won’t fix the consequences of a flawed Iran agreement

As the world awaited a possible deal between the US and Iran last week, President Donald Trump launched a fresh angle — that any deal would have to be contingent on a host of…

Normalisation of the Arab world’s relationship with Israel, to be meaningful and lasting, cannot bypass Palestine and be bundled into geopolitical horse-trading

Trump’s push to expand the Abraham Accords reveals less a peace strategy than a bid to escape the mounting costs of the Iran war