Joining the Abraham Agreement may be a game changer, but it has opposition from both Israel and Palestinian side and can be torpedoed globally.
South Hebron Hills looks old and remains as constant as ever, but large-scale changes may be in the air.
after Wall Street Journal The sensational disclosure was led by six Palestinian majors Sheikh Wadee’Al-Jaabari (also known as Abu Sanard) in the Hebron region, ready to stand out from the Palestinian authorities and sign with Israel’s New Yabrahan Yazhi in line with Israel’s “emirate of omirate” as “Abrahel” “Emeryat” Jerusalem Post It can now be revealed that he met in Jabari recently in his ceremonial tent.
It was also disclosed that 13 other chiefs from the Hebron area are also planning to leave the PA.
At the meeting, Jaabari, 48, wore a large, flowing white robe with gold stripes and black stripes.
He also wore several large etiquette rings with the other hand.
His beard is still black, despite the shade of gray.
Palestinians shop on June 5, 2025 at the market ahead of the Al-Adha festival in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The “tent” itself is mainly red, not a normal tent.
It has a range of about 50 feet by 30 feet and has a high ceiling.
Although this seems to be a change from when the earlier chiefs were on his family line – according to Sheikh, he ruled Hebron since the Saladin period – and it may also be that business in the region, there are strong air conditioners that can withstand the intense heat of the surrounding desert.
Surprisingly, the tent was not surrounded by many security personnel at the time, although postal It was later told that this might have been done temporarily to reduce its intimidation against the visiting journalist.
As we all know, some powerful chiefs are surrounded by their houses with up to 10 armed gunmen.
At the meeting, only one male participant served drinks, fruits and other foods, as well as three young children, who seemed to be running around nearby between four and seven years old. One of them was wearing a Spider-Man-style shirt.
Despite the low-key attendees, the meeting itself was marked by bureaucracy and honor, with early discussions focused on the outstanding history of the Jaabari family, from Saladin to Sheikh’s grandfather and father.
The chief said he controlled about 78% of Hebron’s metropolitan population, which could translate into 700,000 or more Palestinians. The simple and radical premise he proposed was that he was ready, and there were other chiefs (four postal interact with individually), to realize Israel as a Jewish state and to end all claims in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Assembly of “Hebron’s UAE”
His purpose in doing so was to eventually form the other six Palestinian “UAE” (designed like the UAE), which included Bethlehem, Jericho, Nabruce, Nabruce, Turkam, Jenning, Qalqilya and finally the Ramala region.
These are the main areas of the Palestinian West Bank, divided into the Oslo agreement of the mid-1990s, which, although barely functioning, have dominated Israeli-Palestine relations for thirty years.
Sheikh Jaabari told postal He is willing to make this massive shift in exchange for Israel’s support for removing the PA from the region, restoring a work permit suspended after October 7, 2023, establishing a new Israel-Palstein Industrial Workspace, and some parts of the Oslo Agreement Region C.
The Jaabari family has hated PA for decades, and it has reduced PA intervention in Hebron’s affairs as it burned down the PA police station and took 34 PA police hostages in 2007 for killing a member of Jaabari Clan.
Jaabari’s father held numerous meetings with Israeli officials, including attending several years ago postal Reporter, trying to move forward through coexistence plans that do not involve PA.
But what’s unique about this latest initiative is that it takes place in the Post-Abraham Agreement and the world on October 7.
this postal’S Zvika Klein wrote an op-ed in May after meeting with Minister Nir Barkat, the main Israeli figure behind the program, which he discussed on a more general conceptual level.
Barkat put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the loop, but even the risk-averse prime minister has been away from it until now to see how the wind blows.
IDF and Shin Bet object to the plan
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) strongly opposes the initiative.
Although security agencies are unhappy with the PA’s fight against Palestinian terror, it remains the only agency that can truly help Israel curb terror across the West Bank.
Some Israeli officials estimate that Pennsylvania has as many as 70,000 soldiers, including a smaller group of commandos, is not an easy agency to replace.
Currently, officials estimate that Hebron has about 4,000 PA officials and 200 commandos.
Over the years, despite the opposite threat to sever the relationship, the PA shared intelligence with Shin Bet, helping them capture at least some of the Palestinian terrorists, especially Hamas.
Sometimes the motivation for PA to share this intelligence is to weaken Hamas’ opposition, but if the result is to capture terrorists, Israel does not really care about its motivation.
The IDF has similar objections to this idea and also counts on PA for security cooperation.
What happened to Zhan Ning since December 2024 is a good metaphor for dilemma.
Within six weeks, Pennsylvania partially hunted its own people in the Jenning area, engaging in terror and violent protests.
It basically succeeded in reducing the horror in the area, but failed to control the refugee camps inside Zhanning.
Finally, on January 21, the IDF entered the camp itself and started several months of operation to truly take root of the remaining terrorists.
So PA helped but failed.
This is the history of PA in the West Bank – sometimes helping Shin Bet and IDF, but no other Palestinian fighter is “too powerful”.
Shin Bet and IDF prefer the enemies they know. They fear that Emirates’ easing alliance in the West Bank is beyond control, not to mention that the initiative could lead to an unpredictable Palestinian civil war.
Jaabari tells postal If Israel supports him, he could eliminate the PA in Hebron in hours or days without much bleeding, because many of its officers were actually part of his clan.
He said that in his Hebron area his words were the law and guaranteed that he could bring the worst and most chaotic area ten years ago to a totally quiet place.
This is because Hebron is still primarily run by tribal clans and he can quickly take fatal actions from those who violate his laws.
The deal Jaabari negotiated with Barkat discussed 1,000 new Palestinian workers from Hebron, and then obtained 5,000 during the trial period.
However, those figures are small compared to the figures for 210,000 Palestinian workers from October to October 7.
Jaabari insists that Baccarat and Israel will give him 50,000 from Hebron alone in a short time.
The arrangements in Area C are even more questionable.
Jaabari may get some new parts of District C, but Israeli officials may also try to use the new agreement to bring a larger area to Israel.
In this way, Palestinians may complain that, as a group and a country, the new deal gained a more independent, larger Palestinian state than in the Six Day War of 1967.
Likewise, the agreement will succumb to Israel permanently and deal with the issue of “refugees’ return”, although it will grant Palestine autonomy in the Muslim prayer area of Temple Mount.
Why would Jaabari make such concessions, and PA never make such concessions?
Jaabari’s opinion
From his point of view, Pennsylvania is Tunisia’s foreign force (before Prosnia and PA leader Yasser Arafat was deported to Oslo before Oslo), which returned to the West Bank after more than 20 years of exile and launched the traditional chief of all Palestinian affairs in the region.
He told postal All the critical local services are still handled by his Sheikhs Commission, and all the PA does is collect taxes, a way to allocate funds for corrupt “foreign” needs.
In other words, Jaabari treats PA as a parasite and wants complete control of the region, he and his council say it has existed for hundreds of years before the Oslo Agreement.
Also, after October 7, he simply believed that the idea of the Palestinian state before the war was dead and the Israelis would never accept it.
So, what about the meaning of daydreaming when PA takes a portion of his family’s money during this period?
Jaabari with Shin Bet, IDF, probably Netanyahu (his final location is uncertain), PA, and possibly much of the world, which is still based on the traditional Oslo-Oslo era two-country solution.
It is unclear whether U.S. President Donald Trump will weigh the issue and try to tilt the world to accept it, especially if Israel itself hasn’t decided its position yet.
And if Netanyahu starts talking about the plan seriously in public, is it because he actually intends to implement it – or use it as a bluff to put pressure on the Saudis at a lower price to give the PA at a lower price? (By telling the Saudis that if they don’t, he will move with the plan.)
But Trump likes normalized deals, despite opposition, but still under the Abraham agreement.
From one perspective, this could be a new pragmatic way for Israelis and Palestinians to coexist and live peacefully with 33 years in Oslo.
Some of Israel’s rights are passionate about the initiative because it allows them to retain Jerusalem and occupy more places in Area C, and local Sheikhs will support it in order to keep the PA away from the PA.
From another perspective, this could be the dream of a group of local chiefs and right-wing Israelis to be with their own people and on a larger scale globally.
Even if it does continue, it is not clear how many Palestinians will remain even more out of reach within 10 years after giving up their full state and East Jerusalem.
But Sheikh Jaabari made it clear that he was no longer idle and was expressing the question publicly to Israel and the world: Do you want to hold his hand and forge a new type of coexistence?
