Five ways this week marked a 'new Middle East'
Posted on AllSides September 16th, 2020
From The Center
The historic signing of the Abraham Accords in Washington this week represented a turning point in Israeli relations with the Gulf states and potentially could be a major shift in how Israel relates to many other states in the region. If the optimists are right and this is a major shift, then the Middle East will be entering a new era.
The region has a habit of swallowing up optimists and ruining their plans, however. Past assumptions about the Middle East entering a new era have sometimes proven incorrect....