It’s difficult to look at the Middle East today and be optimistic. Every U.S. president since the turn of the century has entered office promising to strike peace agreements in this region, only to leave office without succeeding. The 2020 Abraham Accords , facilitated by President Donald Trump during his first term, was less a peace agreement and more a collection of normalization accords that sought to improve Israel’s diplomatic relations with the few Arab states willing to sign on.

This year doesn’t look especially promising either. Despite the periodic attempts to inject some momentum into diplomacy, the Trump administration has effectively given up on negotiating a comprehensive ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza. The nearly 2-year-old war between Israel and Hamas is s

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