Reflecting at the end of her tenure, Deborah Lipstadt said that after the Hamas-led attack on Israel and the devastating war in Gaza, antisemitism became “almost normalized.”

The moment is ripe for President Trump to focus on aligning Arab powers with the U.S. and Israel around the common goal of containing Iran, according to former national security officials who attended a major international weapons show here last week.

Israel has meanwhile embraced what it says is an alternative US proposal for the ceasefire itself and the release of hostages taken in Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war.

Bonsall, has nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, considered one of the most prestigious awards.

Progress on advancing the Abraham Accords took a blow with the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking over 200 hostages. Israel's subsequent war against Hamas has resulted in over 47,000 Palestinian deaths, according to Gaza health authorities.

Trump, however, kept coming back to it again and again. Over the ensuing days, he repeatedly insisted the U.S. would in effect take complete ownership of Gaza (without putting U.S. troops on the ground or spending taxpayer money,

Helping Gulf countries transform their economies from fossil fuel-based to knowledge-based is part of the formula, Startup Nation Central head tells JNS.