Opinion: Personal, not Political, Relationships are the Future of Jewish-Muslim Coexistence While recent political breakthroughs in the Middle East and the Gulf region are encouraging for Jewish-Muslim relationships, the Islamic world stretches far beyond the Gulf countries and it is personal relationships and local communities that will always be the key to relationships throughout the Muslim world. On August 13, 2020, a joint statement — the Abraham Accords — pronounced the formal and public diplomatic relations created between two Arab Gulf states — the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — and Israel. It had been decades since a treaty like this had been negotiated and agreed upon — the only others had been the Israel-Jordan peace treaty of 1994, and before that, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979.