Netanyahu says Abraham Accords ‘will be expanded’ despite Gaza war, Doha strike

Speaking to Fox News ahead of his meeting tomorrow with US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the Abraham Accords are not threatened by Israel’s recent strike against Hamas leaders in Doha or by the ongoing war in Gaza.

He argues that, on the contrary, the normalization agreements “will be expanded” as a result of peace efforts in cooperation with Trump.

“I think there are many possibilities for peace, which I’m discussing with President Trump and his team, and we plan to seize them. I think you’ll see that not only are the Abraham Accords not endangered, they’ll be expanded to other countries,” Netanyahu tells the network, when pressed about his defense of the strike despite the harsh blowback from Gulf leaders, including the United Arab Emirates, which normalized ties under the accords.

“The Abraham Accords, brokered by President Trump with me and the leader of the UAE, I think they’ve been remarkably resilient and strong. We’ve been after two years of war and they’ve held up very well. We’ve got commerce going both ways,” the premier says.

Netanyahu reiterates his support of the strike in Qatar, saying, “I think that the United States and any self-respecting country doesn’t give a pass to terrorists. Of course, we weren’t attacking Qatar any more than [the US was] attacking Pakistan when [it] took out [former Al-Qaeda leader Osama] Bin Laden.”

Addressing a clause within Washington’s 21-point plan for ending the war in Gaza that would bar Israel from carrying out future strikes in Qatar, the premier says, “These things, again, will be worked out because our goal was that. Our goal was Hamas, not anything beyond it. I think we can work out an understanding on this.”