David Friedman, who was the US ambassador to Israel, spoke about the Abraham Accords and attacked the Biden administration. “When we left office we could have achieved at least two or three more by now, maybe more.” He attacked the conduct of Obama and Biden “The peace agreement with Egypt is almost exploded”
Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told the ‘Newsmax’ network that America under the Biden administration is “not the America that makes the agreements of Abraham”, referring to the historic peace agreements that the Trump administration brokered between Israel and several Arab countries.
“You have Israel, you have a Muslim country and you have America at the summit of the triangle, in each of these cases you have a strong America, which projects its power, its strength, its values in a way that gives these countries the comfort so that they can leave their region and engage really”.
“It requires America at the apex of the triangle to be strong,” he continued. “It was not strong in Afghanistan, it is not strong now in Ukraine, it was not with Iran when it begs for an agreement that will put our allies at great risk. This is not America that makes the Abrahamic agreements.”
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On September 15, 2020, then-President Donald Trump, then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign ministers from the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Bahrain signed a normalization of relations between the nations.
“It was the first time that Israel and two Arab countries made peace in 25 years,” Friedman said. “We quickly did two more before we finished the presidency, and I think we really did something huge to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
Morocco signed the agreements in December 2020 and Sudan in January 2021, “This is a different America under the Trump administration,” Friedman said. “Think back to 2011, what America did to what was a great friend of America, Hosni Mubarak, when he was president of Egypt.
“He had problems at home, Obama just let him get stuck in the wind. He was replaced by the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt almost exploded, and almost ended the peace treaty with Israel until the army came back and ended the riots, but it is America that the Muslim countries are looking at right now,” he continued. “They look at Biden and Obama, that kind of philosophy, which doesn’t give much comfort.”
Friedman added that the US did not expand the Abraham Accords to include more countries in two years. “We talked to six or seven countries when we left office, we could have gotten at least two or three more by now, maybe more,” he said.