Israel's far-right policies will undermine U.S.-mediated efforts to expand the Abraham Accords to Saudi Arabia in the near term and will cause friendly Arab and Muslim countries to increasingly turn to diplomatic and potentially economic measures to signal their opposition to Israel's push to impose a one-state solution on the Palestinians. On June 23, Moroccan Foreign Minister said that his country had pulled out of hosting the Abraham Accords' Negev Summit (which was tentatively scheduled for June 25) in protest of violence and Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, marking the latest setback to Israeli and U.S. attempts to integrate Israel into the region's diplomatic fabric. In March, U.S. media also reported that Saudi Arabia had demanded U.S. support for a Saudi civilian nuclear program and a U.S. defense pact in exchange for Riyadh's normalization with Israel. Later in the spring, Israeli officials began to sound more downbeat about...
