"The Abraham Accords try to frame the Arab-Israeli conflict as religious to make it easier for Westerners to sympathize with Israelis. For decades, Zionist accounts of the conflict disregarded the presence of Palestinian Christians in order to portray the conflict as one between bloodthirsty Muslims and Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

The religious treatment appeals to Western Christians who often see a contemporary conflict through a biblical prism. It’s in Western Zionists’ interests (both Christian and liberal secular) to ignore the presence of Palestinian Christians to turn the conflict into a Muslim-vs-Jewish one. The concoction of Muslim-Jewish enmity is more likely to solidify Western sympathy for the Jewish state because Muslims are the least likely to receive sympathy, as a religious , from Western audiences."