THE CURRENT → THE ROSE REPORT Issue 874 · August 18, 2021

Abraham Accords or Ebrahim Accords?

A year after Mideast peace, America is missing in action

Abraham Accords or Ebrahim Accords?

 

America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan is an embarrassing nightmare to the world’s largest superpower and scares the daylights out of a region that dreads a Taliban takeover.

Iran’s new leadership continues to vex the US, goading the Biden administration to lift the sanctions that have crippled the regime’s economy while daring not to sign any nuclear agreement, no matter how many American concessions it contains.

Preoccupied as they are, it’s understandable that the Biden administration and the State Department let the first anniversary of the Abraham Accords slide by with just one tweet and one bland paragraph in a press release.

Israel, on other hand, grabbed the initiative, getting year two of the Abraham Accords off to a fast start. Israel hosted Bahrain’s undersecretary of international relations for a four-day visit. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid jetted to Morocco to sign agreements furthering bilateral relations.

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