The Abraham Accords, brokered by President Trump in 2020, opened the door to groundbreaking economic innovation and security cooperation between the U.S. and its Israeli and Arab Middle Eastern allies. The accords have weathered even the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023, which demonstrates that strengthening this new paradigm of peace is far more critical to American national security than resolving the Palestinian issue is.

President Trump’s return to the White House has created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deepen and expand the circle of peace and cooperation. The U.S. and its regional partners must come together and forge a shared future of mutual security, economic growth, and global technological leadership.

As former senior officials in the first Trump administration, we supported establishing the 2020 ties between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. However, the potential of the Abraham Accords goes far beyond the level of bilateral relations. Enhanced regional integration under American leadership opens the possibility for multilateral initiatives with global consequences.

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One key example is the India–Middle East–Europe Corridor (IMEC). This effort would create a Western-aligned trade route stretching from India to Europe, cutting transit time for key goods such as pharmaceuticals and electronics by 40–50 percent versus sea routes. Such a corridor would encourage coordination between U.S. allies such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel; spur massive infrastructure projects that could benefit U.S. companies; and serve as an alternative to trade routes dominated by China, Iran, and Russia.

Revitalizing American leadership in the international arena will require ensuring that the United States remains at the forefront of cutting-edge technologies. Important Abraham Accords partners such as Israel and the UAE have made trailblazing advances in fields such as AI and new space (companies and capabilities central to our new private-driven era of space travel). New three-way innovation partnerships between the U.S., UAE, and Israel can build on milestones such as the opening of an Israel-based AI Research Center by Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute, and the March 2025 Emirati commitment to a $1.4 trillion investment framework in American AI, semiconductor, and energy sectors.

Multilateral American-led cooperation with Abraham Accords partners can also play an important role in saving lives and promoting sustainable growth in the developing world. For example, joint projects involving the U.S., Morocco, and Israel in Sudan can help restore food and water security to the war-torn nation and bring Khartoum back into the Western orbit.

Cooperation with current and future Abraham Accords partners can also serve U.S. security interests in the Middle East. By empowering allies to work together in defending themselves through a new Middle East Security Alliance, the U.S. can protect its regional interests while freeing up military assets for other theaters. Such enhanced military cooperation could take place across a broad range of fields, including air and missile defense, space and satellites, maritime, homeland and cyber security, counter-drone technologies, intelligence sharing, joint exercises, and research and development.

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President Trump facilitated four peace agreements between Israel and its neighbors in the span of four months. Unfortunately, President Biden failed to add any new countries to the Abraham Accords during his four years in office. But we hope the prospects for peace are now brighter. The U.S. should now use its strong international partnerships and leverage to broker agreements between Israel and numerous Arab and Muslim states across Africa and Asia.

Lasting regional stability will also require addressing radical actors dedicated to undermining progress toward peace. These include the Ayatollah regime in Tehran. That regime continues not only to pursue nuclear weapons capability, but also to develop its ballistic missile program, empower its terror proxy network, undermine regional governments, and carry out terror attacks worldwide.

A viable approach to the Iranian challenge must address the full range of threats Tehran poses. Such radical actors also include Sunni terrorist groups like Hamas. There must be new solutions for Gaza, in line with President Trump’s vision, to avoid the repeated rounds of attacks on Israel from the Strip. Further attacks are an obvious obstacle to peace.

At the Heritage Foundation, which is now the proud home of the Abraham Accords Peace Institute, we are committed to working with all stakeholders in the U.S., the Middle East, and around the world. Our goal is to realize the full potential of the original accords. Now is the time for bold strategies, new paradigms, and courageous initiatives. They will strengthen vital U.S. interests and alliances and shape a new reality of peace and prosperity in the Middle East.