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Why the Abraham Accords Are the Only Genuine Peace Move in 2,000 Years

(and why “Syria Palaestina” proves the point)

Let’s say it plainly and without apology:

The name “Palestine” as we use it today was invented by the Roman Empire in 135 CE as an act of cultural erasure.

After crushing the Bar Kokhba Jewish revolt, Emperor Hadrian did three things on purpose:

He killed or expelled hundreds of thousands of Jews and banned the survivors from Jerusalem.

He renamed the province from Judea (the name it had carried for over a thousand years) to Syria Palaestina — deliberately invoking the Philistines, Israel’s ancient biblical enemies who had been extinct for 700 years.

He renamed Jerusalem itself Aelia Capitolina and put a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount.

It was the original colonial “de-Judaization” project. The word “Palestine” in its modern political form is literally the trophy name Rome slapped on the land to declare “the Jews are finished here forever.”

Fast-forward 1,890 years.

In 2020, four Arab countries — UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan — and later others, signed the Abraham Accords with the State of Israel, the first time in history that Arab states recognized the Jewish state in the historic Jewish homeland without demanding the prior erasure of Jewish sovereignty as the price.

That is the deepest reversal of Hadrian’s curse imaginable.

For the first time since 135 CE, Muslim-majority countries said: “We recognize the Jews’ right to a state here, on this exact soil**, not somewhere else, not as guests, not as a minority under our protection — but as a sovereign nation among the nations.”

They did it while calling the agreement Abrahamic — deliberately invoking the common father of Jews and Arabs, rejecting the Roman logic that one people must vanish for the other to exist.

The old Roman model was zero-sum: one name, one people, one narrative — erase Judea, invent “Palestine” as its replacement.

The Abraham Accords model is both/and: Jews get Israel. Arabs get their states. Trade, tourism, tech, security cooperation, direct flights from Dubai to Tel Aviv, joint startups in the Negev, Emirati kids learning Hebrew, Israeli Muslims praying at Al-Aqsa and then flying home on Emirates.

No one is asked to disappear. No one is asked to rewrite their history. Both peoples win on the same land that Rome once declared could only belong to one.

That’s why it’s genuine peace: it undoes the 1,890-year-old Roman spell that said Jewish and Arab flourishing in this land are mutually exclusive.

Every previous “peace” framework (Oslo, Camp David, Arab Peace Initiative) was still trapped in the Roman binary: “How much of Judea do the Jews have to give back so the Arabs will finally allow the rest to be called Palestine?”

The Abraham Accords simply stepped out of that trap and said: “Let’s both thrive. No more erasures. No more zero-sum. Abraham, not Hadrian.”

History just turned the page on “Syria Palaestina” was meant to close forever.

That’s not betrayal. That’s the most revolutionary justice this land has seen since the Romans thought they ended the story in 135 CE.

Shalom & Salaam — for real this time. 🇮🇱✨🇦🇪🇧🇭🇲🇦