While the dust is still settling after the 12-day-war between Iran, Israel and the US, diplomacy across the Middle East is on the rise.

According to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "the victory [over Iran] opens the path to dramatically enlarge the peace accords."

Already, new billboards across Israel feature Arab leaders including the presidents of Lebanon and Syria, with US President Donald Trump in the center, alongside the words "The 'Abraham Alliance: It's Time for a New Middle East."

The term "Abraham Accords" was coined in 2020 for US-brokered diplomatic normalization deals between Israel and several Arab countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.

However, forging ties with Syria or Lebanon is somewhat more delicate.

"The signatories to the Abraham Accords were never really in conflict, whereas Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and Syria are in a decades-long conflict," Neil Quilliam, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the London-based think tank Chatham House, told DW.

"And that conflict remains hot," he added.

Officially, Syria and Israel have been at war since 1967. That year, Israel occupied the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau at the border with Syria, which it later annexed. The United Nations never recognized the move, but the US recognized the area as Israeli........

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