Middle East Peace Agreements

series of agreements to normalize relations between Israel and several Arab states. The accords, all of which were signed in the latter half of 2020, consist of a general declaration alongside bilateral agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco. The name of the accords was given in reference to the supposed common ancestor of the Jews and the Arabs, the biblical Abraham, and as an expression of brotherhood. Background and context In protest against the partition of the British mandate of Palestine (see United Nations Resolution 181), Arab governments categorically refused to extend diplomatic recognition to Israel after its independence in 1948. A series of Arab-Israeli wars took place in the decades that followed, although the hostilities were largely confined to Israel and its immediate neighbours. After the trauma of the Six-Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973), Egypt became the first Arab country to conclude a peace treaty with Israel, in 1979 (see Camp David Accords). Israel later agreed to a two-state solution with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993, and, as a result, J