Abraham Offered Normalization. Makkah Offers Security

There8217s a striking irony sitting inside this year8217s diplomacy. Back on May 25, Donald Trump publicly pushed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkiye, Egypt and Jordan to join the Abraham Accords en masse part of a wider attempt to reshape the region while he negotiated an end to the war with Iran. Pakistan pushed back. Saudi Arabia wouldn8217t move without progress on Palestinian statehood. The mass expansion Washington wanted simply didn8217t happen. Then, less than three months later…