WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – The Biden administration says it will encourage more Arab states to normalize ties with the Zionist regime during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of former president Donald Trump’s controversial “Abraham Accords”.
“We will encourage more countries to follow the lead of the Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a virtual meeting with ministers of the three countries as well as the Zionist regime.
Meanwhile, the occupying regime’s foreign minister Yair Lapid said the normalization “club is open for new members.”
The UAE agreed to normalize ties with the Zionist regime last September during the final months of the Trump administration.
Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all followed suit, in deals that shattered a longstanding Arab consensus that there should be no normalization with the occupying regime until it reaches a comprehensive deal with the Palestinians.
Following the agreements, the Trump administration validated Morocco’s claim to the contested Western Sahara region. Sudan was removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, and the UAE secured a deal for advanced F-35 fighter jets - but that deal was subsequently frozen by the Biden administration.
The deals stirred widespread protests among Muslims nations and the Palestinians say they were a stab in the back of the Palestinians.