"If the political crisis had not broken out in 2019, I am sure we would have had peace with Saudi Arabia today," said former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Drummer, who played a key role in reaching the Abrahamic Accords.
In a "non-diplomatic" agreement with the head of the Jewish National Security Institute in Washington, Michael Makowski, the two analyzed Biden's expected visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia next month.
Drummer said in the conversation that if President Biden adopts the right policy, he will be able to bring an end to the Israeli-Arab conflict and also "receive a Nobel Prize for it. Such an agreement happens once in a century, means ending the Israeli-Arab conflict."
Ron Drummer, Photo: Efrat Eshel
However, Drummer believes that at the moment American policy is not in the right place.
"When he reconciles Iran he does not open the door for the Saudis to reconcile with Israel. How can the US administration build peace? Israel should be strengthened as the Trump administration did so that the road to Washington passes through Jerusalem and not the road to (regional) peace passes through Ramallah, and the third component is not "Pursuing the Palestinians and not giving them a veto on peace. This is the formula for success."
In a conversation, Drummer analyzes the processes that led to the Abrahamic Accords, noting that they stemmed from the US withdrawal from the Middle East, the Iranian threat, and the strengthening of Israel's position in the eyes of Arab rulers as a global technological power, and as its security interests.
Drummer confirms the findings of the investigations published in "Israel Today" about the Plan of the Century and the Abrahamic Agreements and reveals that the original intention of the Trump administration was to publish the peace plan as early as 2019.
According to him, the disintegration of the government at the end of 2018 and the slide of Israel into re-election campaigns throughout 2019 led to a one-year delay in the publication of the plan and its actual implementation.
Afterwards, Drummer said that the Saudis greatly appreciated Israel's refusal to condemn them for the murder of the journalist, Jamal Khushkji.
"When they were in the most difficult situation, they heard in their ears that Israel is the one who said to the West, 'Wait a minute.' The connection with Saudi Arabia because of Hashukaji's assassination, they are the ones who are eager to reach an agreement with Iran and want it, even though they are a regime that violates human rights. "" Only in the Arab Spring, ".
He estimated that in the next decade or two, there will still be an opportunity to conclude peace agreements between Israel and Arab countries that have not yet done so, and Israel.
"The window is still open. You have to enter it. It all depends on the policy."
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