Israeli think tank: More rational for Azerbaijan’s Abraham Accords accession to be the symbolic culmination of the bloc’s formation

Published: 2025-11-27 12:15

"From the perspective of Azerbaijan’s leadership, it would be far more rational if the official declaration of Baku’s accession to the expanded version of the Abraham Accords were to become a symbolically significant culmination of the formation of the aforementioned U.S.–Middle Eastern supra-regional bloc, rather than a loosely binding ‘declaration of intent,’" writes the Israeli think tank Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA).

"If this hypothesis is at least partially correct, the Azerbaijani leadership may be taking into account the experience of the Saudi leadership, which at the dawn of the Abraham Accords 1.0 preferred to ‘let their closest allies from the Saudi bloc — the UAE and Bahrain — go first,’ expressing their intention to join the process only if it proved its relevance, and not before the United States and Israel were able and willing to accommodate the requirements and conditions of official Riyadh. Considering that Azerbaijan, within the new geopolitical framework outlined by the Abraham Accords 2.0, is expected to become a key supporting element of the Washington–Jerusalem–Baku axis — playing on the western-northern flank of the Middle East–South Caucasus macro-region a role similar to that which Saudi Arabia is supposed to play on its western-southern flank in the Washington–Jerusalem–Riyadh vector — the Azerbaijani leadership indeed has no need to rush," BESA adds.

By Azerbaijani-Israeli Alliance Global News