The Knesset on Monday launched a new caucus dedicated to the Abraham Accords, the US-brokered normalization deals with Arab countries reached one year ago.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were in attendance alongside former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, representing the since-ousted US and Israeli leaderships that signed the normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.
But Defense Minister Benny Gantz — who also held that position during the previous Netanyahu-led government — touted the role of his own Blue and White party in reaching the accords, which were announced alongside the scrapping of plans to annex large swaths of the West Bank.
“The fact that we prevented a unilateral annexation enabled the Abraham Accords to solidify and move ahead,” Gantz said, in an apparent swipe at Netanyahu, the current opposition leader.
“I am happy these peace agreements were signed and I am sure they will be broadened and drive change in the Middle East, because this is peace between peoples,” he said, adding that Jerusalem “is acting to expand the agreements and even add more agreements.”
Read more at Times of Israel.
{Matzav.com}
