“I’m not sure we should make the deal if they don’t sign,” the US president said at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “I think they owe that to us.”

The normalization process marked the start of a regional transition away from revolutionary rhetoric and toward a new logic grounded in economic integration, intelligence cooperation, technological modernization and strategic realism.

The unprecedented move underscores the deepening security alliance between Israel and moderate Arab states facing the same Iranian threat.

Restoring normalization with Israel depends on three conditions: preventing an Islamist return to power, dismantling Iran’s growing influence and stabilizing Eastern Sudan.

Netanyahu may be polarizing, but he keeps winning elections. If Arab states won’t deal with him, are they really ready for normalization?

If regional integration were truly being embraced by Israel’s Arab neighbors, they would agree to Israel’s sovereignty over the country’s heartland.

Washington calls it a major breakthrough, but Israel and Kazakhstan already normalized relations over 30 years ago.

“We want cooperation with Israel,” says Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari. “We want coexistence.”

Is a new chapter dawning in the Middle East? Amid the rubble of past wars, failed ideologies, and crumbling alliances, a possibility is emerging that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago: peace between Syria and Israel.