Hamas uses the UN agency’s schools and clinics to store weapons and kill Israeli soldiers; the agency, an enabler of irredentism, waves the bloody shirt and blames Israel.

According to numerous critics, many of whom have positions at prestigious think tanks and publications, the normalization agreements the Jewish state reached with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain constituted an abandonment of the Palestinians. Peter Berkowitz argues that, to the contrary, the Abraham Accords can help to improve the lot of the Palestinians, and to reduce the intensity of their conflict with Israel: