Abraham's "Approach Between Bragging... and Cloudy Calculations"

The Arab countries that normalized their relations with Israel, according to the Abraham plan devised by the administration of former US President Donald Trump, and confirmed by the administration of current President Joe Biden, succeeded in establishing and maintaining bilateral relations with Israel, but it did not positively affect the Palestinian cause. Since entering through this door, until today, and for an indefinite period, things have deteriorated on the Palestinian-Israeli track, and become complicated, if not impossible, in terms of chances for a settlement.

In the time of Madrid-Oslo, the parties to the conflict unanimously agreed that the Palestinian issue is the basis, and if the world desires to achieve a Middle Eastern settlement, it is the beginning, and through its solution, the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict will be automatic and inevitable.

Abraham's approach turned on this basis, and with the stroke of a pen at the hands of a problematic American president, the following happened:

Granting the Golan Heights to Israel.

recognized Jerusalem as its capital.

- He promised the Palestinians a small village in its vicinity called "Abu Dis", which would be their capital, from which a corridor would lead to the holy places of prayer.

- On top of that, Israel was granted, on a specific map, more than thirty percent of the West Bank lands, which do not exceed six thousand square kilometers, with a connection between the places that were specified for the Palestinians, either by “piercing” the land with tunnels, or avoiding it with suspension bridges.

- Thus, according to Trump, the strangest and most amazing entity on earth was born. Netanyahu volunteered to allow its residents to call it an empire if they liked.

In the time of Madrid-Oslo, the parties to the conflict unanimously agreed that the Palestinian cause is the basis, and if the world desires to achieve a Middle Eastern settlement, it is the beginning, and through its solution, the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict will be automatic and inevitable.

Abraham's approach was tested at many turns, and the result was that bilateral relations, with all the colored paper covers they were wrapped in, did not change the depth of popular hostility to the Israeli occupation. What happened in the World Cup in Qatar was a shorthand model with strong rhetoric and significance.

This and Abraham's approach is still in its infancy. As for the first road to Sudan, it became clear to the normalizers that the hopes that were pinned on Israel as a passage to America and the West were dashed, and that the antidote that normalization would bring did not arrive and will not arrive!

Between bragging and cheating accounts

I am talking about fragmentary samples, but they carry broader and deeper connotations, except that the last sample that took place was its hero and then its victim, the Libyan Foreign Minister. It presented what can be considered a final picture of Abraham's idea and its applications.

What happened showed very clearly the fall of the normalization approach, "between bragging... and cloudy calculations." So bragging about normalization and exaggerating building on it are the basis of the propaganda that the conflicting forces carry out over governance in Israel by inventing achievements that reap votes every day.

Here we are facing an unconfirmed statement that full normalization with Saudi Arabia is approaching, and statements that more than one Arab and Islamic country is standing in line for normalization. As a result of boasting and internal bidding, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen hastened to announce the meeting he held with Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Manqoush, which was supposed to be secret, to record for himself a historical feat that he thinks portrays him as a "conqueror of the country of the conqueror." By doing this, he pays nothing, but receives everything. It includes money from the Libyan treasury to compensate the Libyan Jews for what they left behind.

The Arab countries that normalized their relations with Israel, according to the Abraham plan that was devised by the administration of former US President Donald Trump, and confirmed by the administration of current President Joe Biden, succeeded in establishing and sustaining bilateral relations with Israel, but it did not positively affect the Palestinian cause.

The Libyan people unanimously rejected what happened, and no one believed the naïve justifications that tried to portray the matter as if it was just a passing meeting that took place by chance. Thus, whoever planned and carried out this meeting fell into the evil of his “ignorance and deceit,” so the minister ended up being dismissed and left the country, normalization ended, and the ostentatious goods were barred. No one in Israel believes what politicians say anymore.

It is no longer in Libya and elsewhere that it facilitates normalization of any kind. What happened with the Libyan Foreign Minister proved that normalization has become a stolen commodity. Whoever did this theft does not know how to hide it, nor how to benefit from it. Rather, it is a losing trade that produced nothing but a scandal.

This frivolous game is still being played in America, with the two main poles, the Republican and the Democratic. Ironically, the Americans, the Israelis, and their accomplices in Libya considered it only a technical error, as Cohen was blamed for his haste in making the announcement.

The minister was smuggled to a safe place from punishment, and there was nothing left for Mr. Blinken, who was still driving Abraham's chariot, except to say, as the Arabs said with defeat: "We lost a battle, but we did not lose a war." What the hasty Cohen and the naïve "Mangoucheh" broke, can be made up for by another attempt with Libya or with others. Let's wait for what the days bring us.