The Regional Impact of the Abraham Accords - Amr Yossef March 2021

The second section proceeds to explain the regional impact of the accords on these alignments, particularly the way the accords consolidate the status quo alignment vis-à-vis the revisionist. [...] 5 The Regional Impact of the Abraham Accords On the other hand, the Arab Spring also caused a drastic redistribution of power within the status quo alignment in favor of the Gulf States, contributing to the “Gulfization of the Middle East.”7 In the pre–Arab Spring struggle against the revisionists, the status quo–aligned Arab Gulf States could count on the support from regional allies (Iran in the. [...] Third, the Abraham Accords demonstrate the Gulfization of the Middle East, in the sense of the leadership of Gulf parties and the priority of Gulf issues. [...] For this reason, the Biden administration will have to deal with the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly its core issues, unmentioned in the accords: the occupation of the West Bank, the settlements, the ongoing siege of Gaza, the refugee question, and the situation in East Jerusalem.46 This is especially the case given the likelihood of the Palestinian Authority’s 42 US Departme. [...] Nevertheless, it is easy to forget that the Egyptian-Israeli peace faced serious challenges, especially deterioration of relations against the background of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the First Palestinian Intifada in 1987, the Second Intifada in 2000, the Gaza war in 2012, several lethal incidents on the border, and of course, the attempted attack on the Israeli Embassy in Cairo dur.