Four years on, the Abraham Accords continue to be one of the most significant foreign policy achievements of the U.S. government in the Middle East. 

The Accords, negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump during his first term and announced in September of 2020, upended decades of foreign policy approaches to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and turned conventional wisdom on its head. 

For decades, foreign policy experts in the West and in the Middle East had proclaimed that without settling the Palestinian issue, there would be no hope for achieving peace or even normalization between Israel and the Arab nations of the Middle East. 

Suggestions that the Palestinian issue could be handled separately, or perhaps even as a later part of improving ties between Israel and other Middle Eastern nations, were considered to be out of touch with reality. 

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