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<\/a>Abraham Accords Tested on 5th Anniversary as Arab Leaders Gather to Condemn Israel\u2019s Strike on Hamas in Qatar<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nDebbie Weiss<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The fifth anniversary of the Abraham Accords was overshadowed on Monday as top Arab diplomats gathered in Doha for an emergency summit after Israel\u2019s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar<\/a> last week.<\/span><\/p>\n Five years on, experts say that, despite war and political shocks, the US-brokered deals that normalized relations between Israel and several Araba countries have endured, though not without setbacks, and many argue that strengthening them is the most effective way to defeating the hatred and terrorism that led to Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n Trade between Abraham Accord countries<\/a> in 2025 increased from the year before, though it remained well below the levels seen before the Hamas-led attack. The UAE, Israel\u2019s most significant new trading partner, has dominated the commerce generated by the accords, signed on the lawn of the White House on Sept. 15, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n Hundreds of Israeli companies now operate in the UAE, with Emirati investors channeling capital into Israeli tech startups and sovereign funds taking stakes in gas and technology ventures, though a planned $2 billion acquisition was shelved after the outbreak of the Gaza war. Recent figures show trade between Israel and the UAE reached $293 million in July 2025, a 4 percent rise from the year before, while trade with Morocco grew 32 percent in the same month to $8.7 million, according to data published by the Washington DC-based Heritage Foundation. Over the first seven months of 2025, Israel\u2013Morocco trade totaled $71 million, a 7 percent increase from the same period in 2024, the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n Asher Fredman, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation who also served as Israel director of the Abraham Accords Peace Institute \u2014 a nonprofit founded by former White House adviser and US President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner to promote and expand the accords \u2014 said the agreements had \u201cproven their resilience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He noted that the war had exposed how Hamas, with its ties to the Muslim Brotherhood<\/a>, continues to threaten the region\u2019s stability.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMany regional leaders appreciate Israel\u2019s efforts to remove Hamas, a terrorist group affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, from power, even if they are critical of Israel\u2019s tactics,\u201d he told The Algemeiner.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n But he went on to say that the war had resulted in diminishing many aspects of the \u201cwarm peace and people-to-people cooperation that made the accords so unique\u201d and that restarting momentum will require \u201cregional projects with tangible benefits,\u201d with strong US backing, and ensuring Hamas can no longer undermine progress toward peace.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLasting regional integration will depend on removing Hamas as the dominant military and governing power in Gaza,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Defense trade has also expanded, with Abraham Accords countries accounting for<\/a> 12 percent of Israel\u2019s $15 billion in arms exports last year, and major defense projects, including the UAE\u2019s co-production of Israeli drones, continuing in 2025 \u2013 though many are now under wraps.<\/span><\/p>\n Middle East experts Elie Podeh and Yoel Guzansky, from the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, respectively, noted in The Jerusalem Post<\/i> that Washington\u2019s 2021 decision to place Israel within US Central Command signaled Arab states\u2019 readiness to work with Israel openly, not just behind closed doors. Israel had already taken part in joint drills with regional neighbors, but its integration into CENTCOM created what they described as a qualitative shift in collaboration \u2014 a shift that was evident during Iranian attacks on Israel<\/a> in April and October 2024 and again in June 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n But the UAE\u2019s decision to bar Israeli defense firms from a major global defense and aerospace expo in Dubai later this year \u2013 reportedly in response to Israel\u2019s strike in Doha \u2013 highlighted the political strains now testing the accords.<\/span><\/p>\n Podeh and Guzansky agreed with Fredman that people-to-people ties have suffered during the war but emphasized the particular impact on younger Arabs. \u201cThe gap between elite positions and Arab public opinion \u2013 especially among younger generations \u2013 continues to widen across all countries, placing pressure on ruling elites to respond,\u201d they said.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this month, the UAE also issued a rare public rebuke to Israel over reports of renewed annexation ambitions in the West Bank. A senior Emirati official, Lana Nusseibeh, warned that any Israeli move to apply sovereignty would constitute a \u201cred line\u201d for Abu Dhabi that \u201cwould severely undermine the vision and spirit of the Abraham Accords\u201d \u2013 marking the Gulf country\u2019s toughest criticism of Israel since the war began.<\/span><\/p>\n On Friday, the UAE said it had summoned Israel\u2019s deputy ambassador over the strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s subsequent \u201chostile and unacceptable\u201d remarks, in another sign of strain between the two countries with close economic and defense ties<\/a>. The Emirati foreign ministry said it told David Ohad Horsandi that \u201cthe continuation of such hostile and provocative rhetoric \u2026 solidifies a situation that is unacceptable and cannot be overlooked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking from the emergency summit three days later, Egypt\u2019s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi addressed Israel, saying that its decision to strike in Doha harms \u201cthe future of peace, threatens your security and the security of the peoples in the region, and adds obstacles to chances for any new peace agreements and even aborts existing ones.\u201d<\/span> The text accused Israel of \u201cgenocide, ethnic cleansing, starvation, siege, and colonizing activities and expansion policies,\u201d and said such conduct jeopardized efforts to expand normalization with Arab nations<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Podeh and Guzansky noted that Saudi Arabia, once seen as the most likely next signatory to the Abraham Accords, is \u201ctreading very carefully\u201d since the outbreak of the Gaza war. As the guardian of Islam\u2019s holiest sites and a leading voice in the Sunni world, Riyadh is reluctant to proceed without \u201csignificant progress on the Palestinian issue\u201d or firm American commitments on security and civilian nuclear cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Israel\u2019s special envoy for trade and innovation and co-founder of the UAE-Israel Business Council, struck a more positive note, saying that the Abraham Accords have been \u201cgame changing for Israel and the Middle East,\u201d and stressing that even after an extensive regional war they have \u201cstood strong.\u201d She noted that the signatory states have consistently condemned Hamas, blocked boycott efforts against Israel at the Arab League, and made no overtures toward unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state<\/a>, unlike Canada, the UK, France and Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEven with the current tensions, it is the Abraham Accords countries who are clearly calling for the end of Hamas, as European countries remain silent,\u201d Hassan-Nahoum told The Algemeiner.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI am extremely optimistic about the long-term viability and even expansion of the Abraham Accords in the next ten years,\u201d she concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Abraham Accords Tested on 5th Anniversary as Arab Leaders Gather to Condemn Israel\u2019s Strike on Hamas in Qatar Debbie Weiss Qatar\u2019s Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, attends the preparatory ministerial meeting for emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 14, 2025. 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\nQatar\u2019s Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, attends the preparatory ministerial meeting for emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 14, 2025. Photo: Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs\/Handout via REUTERS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/UAE1.jpg\")
Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-US President Donald Trump, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed display their copies of signed agreements as they participate in the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords, normalizing relations between Israel and some of its Middle East neighbors, in a strategic realignment of Middle Eastern countries against Iran, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, US, Sept. 15, 2020. Photo: REUTERS\/Tom Brenner<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nA draft resolution from the Arab-Islamic summit in Doha, a day before Monday\u2019s emergency summit, warned that Israel\u2019s \u201cbrutal\u201d strike in Qatar and other actions \u201cthreaten prospects of peace and coexistence in the region, and threaten everything that has been achieved on the path of normalizing ties with Israel, including current agreements and future ones.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-09-15T140553Z_2_LYNXNPEL8E0JS_RTROPTP_4_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-QATAR-MEETING-1.jpg\")
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with Emir Of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and GCC representatives pose for a group photo ahead of an emergency Arab-Islamic leaders\u2019 summit convened to discuss the Sept. 9 Israeli attack on Hamas on Qatari territory, in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 15, 2025. Photo: Saudi Press Agency\/Handout via REUTERS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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