US President Donald Trump said he expected an
expansion of the
Abraham Accords soon and hopes Saudi Arabia will join the pact that normalized 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 on Friday on Fox Business Network.
Trump said he had had “some very good conversations” as recently as Wednesday with states that have indicated their willingness to join the accords.
“I think that they’re going to all go in very soon,” Trump said in the interview, which was recorded on Thursday.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the accords in 2020 during Trump’s first term in the White House, breaking a longstanding taboo to become the first Arab states to recognise Israel in a quarter century before Morocco and Sudan followed suit.
Trump, who convened Muslim and European leaders in Egypt to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip on Monday, has presented his plan to end the war in Gaza as the catalyst for a wider regional peace settlement.
He said then that more countries would join the Abraham Accords initiative and even floated the idea of a peace deal between arch Middle East enemies Iran and Israel, telling the Israeli parliament he thought Iran wanted one: “Wouldn’t it be nice?”
What are the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords are a series of normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab and Muslim-majority countries, brokered by the United States beginning in 2020.
They marked one of the most significant diplomatic shifts in the Middle East in decades, as several Arab states formally recognized Israel, something that had been politically taboo since Israel’s founding in 1948.
The Abraham Accords established full diplomatic relations between Israel and the signatory countries, marking a major step toward normalization after decades of regional hostility. The agreements included mutual recognition and the exchange of ambassadors, paving the way for formal political and economic engagement.
They also opened avenues for cooperation across key sectors such as trade, tourism, technology, health, security, and energy, fostering deeper economic integration between Israel and its new Arab partners. Beyond the political and economic aspects, the accords carried a symbolic dimension and a shared commitment to peaceful coexistence and religious tolerance, invoking the legacy of Abraham, the revered patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as a unifying figure for the three faiths.
