in the Saudi general sitting there part of strategic planning you'll have an Israeli

general sitting there as part of strategic planning you. This one is on the Abraham Accords

based on a conversation I recently had in Israel. There's a lot going on in

Israel. Most of the attention has been on domestic Israeli politics, a heated debate, which we will

be discussing in the weeks ahead.

But in the meantime, this is a conversation about what's happening outside of the domestic

political debate, and that is the further implementation and

deepening of the Abraham Accords, which were signed in 2018.

Since this historic breakthrough, this normalization between Israel and a number of countries, most notably those in the

Sunni Gulf. Israel has been through wild political swings from a left-right coalition government

that included Nftali Bennett from the right. Yir Lapeed from the center left in Mansour. government that

included Nftali Bennett from the right, Yir Lapid from the center left and Mansour Abbas

from an Arab party. That government's gone, but a new government's in power of the right

led by Bibi Netanyahu who's been on this podcast and through all these swings the

Abraham Accords have endured. One of the architects of the Accords was Aria

Lightstone who served as the senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, from 2017 to

2021. As I mentioned on a recent trip to Israel, I sat down with REA to hear the latest on the implementation of the Abraham Accords, discuss what may be next for normalization of Israel in the broader Middle East, and to discuss

Aria's book called Let My People Know,

the incredible story of Middle East peace

and what lies ahead.

Aria also played a critical role

in the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem,

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