President Donald Trump remarked on Monday that a growing number of nations are eager to become part of the Abraham Accords, the historic agreements that established formal relations between Israel and four Arab nations.
“You’re going to see countries start to fill up the Abraham Accords, more and more countries want to join,” Trump stated during a White House cabinet meeting, according to The National. “So countries are starting to want to get involved very much with the Abraham Accords again.”
Vice President JD Vance expressed disappointment with the Biden administration for failing to capitalize on the success of the accords, accusing the administration of sidelining the initiative due to political animosity.
“If you think about what happened with the Abraham Accords, one of the great diplomatic breakthroughs under the first Trump administration, really in the last 30 or 40 years of American history in the Middle East, and the Biden administration did absolutely nothing with it. Built on it, not at all, added zero additional countries. Purely out of political spite,” Vance asserted.
He went on to add, “The Biden administration, I think, hurt the United States and really hurt the project of world peace. That has changed. Luckily, about two months ago, we got a new President, and that President has given us the task of building out the Abraham Accords, adding new countries to it.”
Vance highlighted the economic and technological potential the accords unlock for participating countries.
“Really, what you see is a lot of these countries that have historical, ethnic, or religious hatreds want to build. They want to build new artificial intelligence. They want to build new real estate projects. They want their citizens to become rich and prosperous and peaceful, and they’re setting to the side some of those old hatreds under the leadership of President Trump. It’s early, but we made a lot of progress, and we’ll keep on making progress,” he explained.
The Abraham Accords were formally signed at the White House in September 2020 by the UAE and Bahrain, with Morocco and Sudan soon following suit.
These nations became the first Arab states to establish diplomatic relations with Israel since Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
Although the Biden administration supported the Abraham Accords, it was unable to extend the agreements to additional countries, even after making efforts to convince Saudi Arabia to join.
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