A Triumph for Peace Is a Humiliation for the ‚Peace Industry‘ – John Kerry said it couldn’t be done, but Arab leaders are embracing normal relations with Israel. – By Michael Oren | WSJ

The Abraham Accords, signed by Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, represent an immense victory for peace in the Middle East and a major defeat for the peace industry. Composed of liberal think tanks and nongovernmental organizations, virtually all of academia and the media, and a cadre of former officials, commentators and philanthropists, that industry had long insisted that Arab-Israeli peace couldn’t be achieved without Israeli territorial concessions, a freeze on settlement building, and the creation of a Palestinian state. “There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without . . . Palestinian peace,” Secretary of State John Kerry told the Brookings Institution in 2016. “That is a hard reality.”