Trump understood the Palestinian leaders were reluctant to make peace. So the ultimate goal of the accords was to isolate the Palestinians. As the number of countries in the Abraham Accords process grew, the Palestinians would find themselves alone, and instead of blaming Israel for their failings, they would be forced to make peace themselves.

If this strategy was so great, why wouldn’t the Biden team try to continue the process?

Part of the reason is the process began under the presidency of Donald Trump. The Biden Administration’s policy about almost everything is “bad orange man” programs must be canceled. Thus we have a southern border crisis and a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Team Biden’s rejection of anything involving Trump damages their attitude toward the Abraham Accords process.

Many in Biden’s foreign policy team not only supported the JCPOA but helped to negotiate it. By working on getting back into the JCPOA (and now abandoning Afghanistan), Biden has destroyed the trust of the Sunni states, who no longer believe that the U.S. has their backs.