Netanyahu Lauds the Prospect for Peace with Arabs While Abbas Spews Lies and Hate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a stirring address on September 22^nd to the United Nations General Assembly, in which he declared that Israel is "at the cusp" of a historic breakthrough in fully normalizing its relations with Saudi Arabia.

The failure for decades to reach peace agreements with Arab countries beyond those signed with Egypt and Jordan, he said, was the result of the false premise that peace with the Palestinians must come first. However, the Abraham Accords that Israel entered into with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco created a new paradigm for peace and represented “a pivot of history.” The Abraham Accords, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “brought Arabs and Jews closer together” and broadened cooperation in “commerce, energy, water, agriculture, medicine, climate and many, many other fields.”