Donald Trump's speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on Monday afternoon outlined the outline of peace in the Middle East, as the American president understands it. This goes through the expansion of the Abraham Accords, which normalize Israel's relations with the Muslim countries of the Persian Gulf, the rest of the Middle East and North Africa - and not through the coexistence of two states, Israel and Palestine, as we have assumed until now.

Trump tried to describe the day after the end of the Gaza war and to place it in the broader context of the region. The Abraham Accords were signed, during Trump's first term in 2020, by the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan. These countries joined Egypt and Jordan, the only ones that had diplomatic relations with Israel until then.

The signing of an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel will be decisive, which Trump is trying to achieve with the help of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff.

The American president did not mention the creation of a Palestinian state at all during his speech to the Knesset. This was once a prerequisite for normalizing Arab-Israeli relations. Not anymore. There is now a real possibility that Israel will restore its relations with the Arabs and postpone the existence of a Palestinian state for the future or go to the Kalends.