WATCH | TRUMP SAYS EXPECTS EXPANSION OF ABRAHAM ACCORDS SOON

Fri 17 October 2025:

Trump said he expects an expansion of the Abraham Accords soon and hopes Saudi Arabia will join the pact that normalised diplomatic relations between Israel and some Arab states.

“I hope to see Saudi Arabia go in, and I hope to see others go in. I think when Saudi Arabia goes in, everybody goes in,” Trump said in an interview broadcast today on Fox Business Network.

The US president called the pact a “miracle” and “amazing” and hailed the UAE’s signing of it.

“It’ll help bring long-lasting peace to the Middle East,” said Trump.

What are the Abraham Accords? Will they actually expand as Trump says?

Dubbed the “Abraham Accords”, Trump during his first term secured agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

But analysts say an expansion of the accords will be difficult – if not outright impossible – given widespread public anger over Israel’s deadly two-year war on Gaza, which experts have said amounts to a genocide against the Palestinian people.

An August survey from the Washington Institute, a pro-Israel think tank in the US, found that 81 percent of Saudi respondents viewed the prospect of normalising relations with Israel negatively.

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A Foreign Affairs and Arab Barometer poll from June came to similar findings: in Morocco, one of the Abraham Accords signatories, support for the deal fell from 31 percent in 2022 to 13 percent in the months after Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.

Saudi Arabia has also repeatedly asserted its commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative, which conditions recognition of Israel on resolving the plight of Palestinians and establishing a Palestinian state.

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