{"id":7606,"date":"2022-09-20T20:28:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=7606"},"modified":"2022-09-20T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:12:08","slug":"background-to-the-abraham-accords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2022\/09\/background-to-the-abraham-accords\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Accords: Jordan Peterson & Ron Dermer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ron Dermer is an American-born political consultant who served as Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2021. As Prime Minister Netanyahu\u2019s top advisor, Dermer was a driving force behind many of the era\u2019s most important diplomatic developments, such as the monumental Abraham Accords, which normalized Israel\u2019s relations with several Arab nations. Dermer earned a degree in Finance and Management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University. After moving to Israel, Dermer became a columnist for The Jerusalem Post and served as a close advisor to Natan Sharansky. In 2004, he co-authored with Sharansky the best-selling book, \u201cThe Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror,\u201d which has been translated into ten languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Abraham Accords were formally signed on Sep. 15, 2020. They represent the surfacing of Israel’s relations with our Arab partners, particularly in the Gulf. By around 2012, the Saudi leaders had changed and wanted to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. What changed was a fundamental shift in their understanding and throughout the Gulf as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815],"tags":[697,865,867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7610,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7606\/revisions\/7610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}