From COP27, The Call Of A Green Blue Deal

From COP27, The Call Of A Green Blue Deal

Share to Linkedin A woman taking part in a 17-km swim from Jordan to Israel across the Dead Sea, organized by ... [+] EcoPeace, aimed at raising awareness to receding water levels. GALI TIBBON/AFP via Getty Images There's a lot to be said for new logic, particularly when it comes to long-standing conflicts in the Middle East. The Abraham Accords, signed by Israel, the UAE and the United States in September, 2020 (and subsequently expanded to include Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco) was a visible break with previous approaches to Palestinian-Israeli peace, which have sought to resolve a host of complex 'final status' issues as a package. One argument for the Abraham Accords (which did not involve the Palestinians directly) was that closer ties between Israel and other Arab states would encourage the kinds of connections and interdependencies that would make it possible to break the long-standing deadlock over a two-state solution, without holding up regional development in the process. One might call this the 'rising tide floats all boats' theory of peacemaking. The Abraham Accords have created momentum: Since 2020, bilateral UAE-Israel trade has exceeded 3 billion USD; new associations have been formed to advance broader Middle-East trade, technology transfer,