Monday, April 19, 2021

Abraham

One of the unreported accomplishments of the Trump administration is called the Abraham Accords. This agreement between Israel and four Arab countries is the result of a change in strategy proposed by Jerad Kushner. Instead of following the normal plan of trying to get the Palestinians to negotiate with Israel he bypassed Palestine and worked directly with other Arab countries and achieved a smashing success. This happened because Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement and took sides with the Sunni Muslims who are opposed by the Iranian Shia Muslims. This put all of the Muslim countries on the side of Israel and against Iran. At the same time Trump put severe restrictions on Iran in the form of economic embargoes and this has put a serious hurt on Iran. So far Biden has left this as is but there is talk that he will rejoin the agreement and lift restrictions. He says his agreement will be tougher and last longer which some say is an admission that the first agreement was flawed.

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