Dexter Filkins
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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on annexing parts of the West Bank.
And so it's a pretty big achievement.
I mean, if, you know, I've spent a lot of time in the Middle East and kind of the one thing that everybody in the Arab world always agreed on was like, we hate Israel, you know?
And so this kind of broke that and it formed...
a kind of a new paradigm and a new template.
And I think Jared's dream, and I think... Well, honestly, I think of any diplomat since has been, we'll take this new paradigm of the countries that have recognized Israel in the Abraham Accords, and we'll kind of add countries to it.
The big one would be Saudi Arabia, MBS.
But he didn't want to go along.
So he was, you know, very tight with Jared at the time.
But basically...
In order to do the Abraham Accords, they had to kind of blow off the Palestinians.
They had to say, like, we're not going to sit around and talk about Palestinian rights.
We're just going to do this.
And so MBS basically said we can't go along with that.
And so the Abraham Accords is like this really big diplomatic achievement and I think quite impressive.
I think in his favor, he would say like, yeah, we did this because we didn't do what all the other diplomats, the American diplomats in the region had done for a million years, which is
to say, hold on, you know, let's talk about it for six months.
And what about the Palestinians?
Jared just went and did
Well, as you mentioned, there's been a terrible war in Gaza.
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