00:00Countries that were sworn enemies did not even speak to each other officially, signed peace deals in the same week.
00:08That actually happened. It is called the Abraham Accords and in 2026, it's blown up again in a way nobody
00:16had expected.
00:18For 70 years, most Arab countries refused to even acknowledge that Israel existed.
00:23No flights, no trade, just hostility.
00:27Then on the 15th of September 2020, on the White House lawn, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, all signed deals
00:37normalizing relations with Israel.
00:39First time since 1994, named after Abraham, the single figure that Judaism, Islam and Christianity all shared, the message was
00:49clear.
00:50We come from the same place, we can coexist.
00:53But here's what they did not tell you.
00:55This was never about peace.
00:58This was about Iran.
01:00The UAE and Bahrain had watched Iran spread through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, surrounding the Gulf.
01:09So they made a cold calculation.
01:11Align with Israel, plug in American military protection and survive.
01:16Stripped off the ceremony, this wasn't a peace deal.
01:20It was a security alliance wearing a peace deal's clothes.
01:25Now here's the part that nobody puts on paper.
01:29Secret number one.
01:30Israel had to give something up.
01:32It was planning to annex parts of the West Bank.
01:36The UAE's ambassador sent a private warning to the White House.
01:40Do that and normalization is dead.
01:43The entire deal was born from that ultimatum.
01:46Sealed on a three-way call between Trump, Netanyahu and the UAE's crown prince.
01:53Secret number two.
01:54Every country got a secret American gift.
01:57UAE got F-35 jets.
02:00Morocco got US recognition of its claim over Western Sahara.
02:04Sudan got removed from the US terrorism list.
02:08These weren't peace agreements.
02:10They were transactions with peace branding.
02:13Secret number three.
02:15And this one is dark.
02:17Hamas attacked on the 7th of October partly to destroy the Accords.
02:22Recovered documents that show their leader Sinbad believed if Saudi Arabia normalized next,
02:28the Palestinian cause would become permanently irrelevant in Arab politics.
02:33The attack was meant to blow that up.
02:35And in the most twisted way, it accelerated the very alliance it was trying to kill.
02:41As of May 2026, Trump is pushing Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, even Pakistan to join the Accords
02:50to end the war with Iran.
02:52Pakistan said, no, the others have not answered yet.
02:56But if Saudi Arabia signs, the country that controls Mecca, the holiest site in Islam,
03:02formally shaking hands with Israel, that's not just a deal.
03:06That changes the entire equation of the Middle East and that too forever.
03:12The Accords are messy.
03:14The Palestinian question got sidestepped completely.
03:17And that is real criticism.
03:19But they are also the only working model we have of sworn enemies choosing trade over war.
03:26In the Middle East, that's not nothing.
03:29That might actually be everything.
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