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Wrong Audience, Wrong Ask: Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Gambit Falls on Deaf Ears
President Donald Trump's efforts to expand the Abraham Accords by pressuring Arab and Muslim leaders to normalize relations with Israel have been met with silence, as these states have already outlined their stance through the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which requires Israel to withdraw from occupied territories. Trump framed normalization as a debt owed and a condition for resolving the Iran war, but regional leaders have not responded to his overtures.
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