Not worth the paper they are written on: Israel-Gaza conflict shows limit of Abraham Accords

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“There is a huge gap between the interim government and the street,” says Andreas Krieg, a Middle East specialist at King’s College.

“The pressure of the street has been underestimated in all the capitals that normalised with Israel,” says Krieg.

Krieg says the normalisation deals lack teeth and could easily be dismissed if they got too politically expensive. “If it turns out to mobilise the street, they have the argument they can make that this is just a piece of paper,” he says.

Period	18 May 2021
Held at	The Independent, United Kingdom