This article condemns the Abraham Accords because it failed to stop Hamas from attacking Israel:
[The] the 11-day Israel-Gaza conflict has tested the limits of Trump-era accords that had ushered in a geopolitical shift in the region, promising the "dawn of a new Middle East."Where's the peace if the accords were a new dawn in the Middle East? Really?
That argument is, to use a technical term, "stupid." The accords were
peace between non-Palestinian states and Israel. Why would the accords stop all war?
Oh sure, nobody with relations with Israel publicly condemned Hamas and the other radical groups shooting at Israel. But those governments were silent as Israel went about destroying their attackers; and the dread Arab "street" did not erupt.
Further, Hamas is backed and directed at least in part by Iran, which is a Persian state and not an Arab state. More reason for Arab states to avoid siding with Hamas against Israel, which also opposes Iran.
Those two things indeed are a reflection of the geopolitical shift in the region that the Abraham Accords built on. The accords and past peace treaties are a fire break. The Israel-Hamas war did not even remotely threaten to escalate to a regional war because Arab and Moslem states did not rally to the Hamas cause.
That's a big effing deal, to quote a certain past vice president.
And let's recall that by the definition used to condemn the very new Abraham Accords, decades of a peace deal between Egypt and Israel also didn't stop the 2021 Hamas-Israel War. Nor did more recent peace with Jordan. Are those peace deals fraudulent? Where were the stupid articles making that stupid argument the last several decades for earlier wars that those peace deals "failed to stop"?
A new dawn takes time to become a new day. And the Biden administration undercut the basis for the Abraham Accords from day one by sucking up to Iran and declaring the Palestinians the queen of the victims prom again.
UPDATE: The stupidity has limits even in the Middle East if not in American liberal circles:
During the recent military conflict between Israel and Hamas, Levine joined me on a special edition of a podcast I sometimes join called The Red Whine. During our hour-long conversation, he provided insight and information that indicate the Abraham Accords are durable and relations between the Arab nations and the Palestinians are changing.
Levine noted that condemnation and reprisals are predictable anytime Israel and Hamas have an armed conflict. This time he said, it was strangely quiet. While there was some criticism, direct statements against Israel did not come out of the leadership in Dubai or even Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prominent Emirati in the UAE even condemned Hamas as terrorists. At least one also confirmed the durability of the Accords[.]
Fingers crossed. It would be huge if Saudi Arabia made official peace with Israel. How that would fit with the Saudis hedging their bets by reaching out to Iran in the face of Biden's pro-Iran views is unclear to me.
