The Abraham Accords is the normalization deal signed between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on September 15, 2020.
It also led to a further normalization agreement with Morocco and with Sudan slated to follow suit.
The deal was mediated by the administration of US president Donald Trump and was a watershed moment in Israeli history.
The accords are credited with changing the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East, aligning Israel with newfound allies against Iran.
It has also led to numerous medical, business and scientific agreements signed between the Israel, Morocco, Bahrain and the UAE.
The problem Israel was faced with in solving this conflict was that the Palestinians refused to make the compromises necessary to sign a peace agreement with Israel.
Normalization between the two countries had been planned but untimely sidelined after the breakout of the ongoing war.
In general, analysts assess that the effect of the Gaza conflict will be to slow, rather than halt, Israel’s continuing normalization with Abraham Accord states.
Further normalization with the Arab world and opening a path for two states is the only way forward.
This private sector-oriented club, whose members are entrepreneurs and businesspeople, aspires to emulate the accords and implement them in the business sector as well.
Eisenkot asked for the outline to be formed after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published his plan for after the war.
One of the first things anyone who has traveled to an Arab country learns is that one of the worst social faux pas you can make is to offend your host.
A religiously based discussion, based on honesty and truth, and which directly addresses points of conflict, is the path forward.
Over five months of war, the humanitarian angle has taken on renewed importance as Gazans are now receiving air drops and there is discussion of a new hostage-prisoner deal between Israel and Hamas.
Druze community members hope that the community can continue to strengthen with the State of Israel after the October 7 massacre.