Will a Saudi-Israel Normalization Deal Undermine Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts?

The Biden administration argues that a Saudi-Israel normalization deal would pave the way to settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the impact of the previous normalization deals under the Trump administration’s Abraham Accords paints a very different picture. In a new QI Brief, Professor Jeremy Pressman documents the impact of these normalization deals and concludes that a U.S.-brokered normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia would be counterproductive to Israeli-Palestinian peace.

To discuss the impact of the normalization deals on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, QI held a webinar with Jeremy Pressman, Professor of Political Science and the Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut, Rula Jebreal, Palestinian journalist and award-winning author, and Jon Hoffman, Research Fellow in Defense and Foreign Policy at the Cato Institute. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute, moderated.

Download the full webinar transcript here:

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