Israel’s Peace Accords : Prospects for Future Normalization – Jerusalem Studio

During the seventy-seven years of its sovereign statehood, Israel has signed peace accords with two of its neighbours, namely, Egypt and Jordan. A third one, with Lebanon, was dead on arrival due to Syrian pressure. An interim deal, the Oslo Agreement – reached with the PLO – neither blossomed into a permanent peace nor was cancelled. Subsequently, the Abraham Accords were signed with four Gulf and African nations – nominally hostile to Israel but not quite among its enemies. So here we are, standing on the cusp of a possible breakthrough of normalisation with Saudi Arabia, anxious to find out the possible challenges, costs and prospects, for both this particular initiative and its expansion to the region at large.