On October 7th 2023, the Middle East crossed a historic threshold. What began as a terrorist onslaught by Hamas against Israel became, in retrospect, the opening battle of a civilizational realignment. The assault was not a local conflict; it was an ideological eruption. Hamas, fuelled by the dogmas of political Islam, sought to ignite a regional collapse, to wound Israel beyond repair, and to revive the old dream of exporting the Islamic revolution across continents. It failed, catastrophically.
From terror to transformation
Israel’s answer changed the course of the region. Through an extraordinary blend of courage, intelligence, and national unity, the Jewish state not only survived the most brutal attack in its history but emerged from it stronger, more cohesive, and more respected than ever. The Israel Defense Forces, guided by an intelligence network unmatched in its precision, dismantled Hamas’s military capacity, neutralized Hezbollah’s northern threat, and crippled the strategic depth of Iran’s proxy system.
In less than two years, the map of power in the Middle East was redrawn. The Assad regime, deprived of Iranian and Russian backing, finally imploded. Iran’s nuclear infrastructure suffered major setbacks under waves of covert strikes and cyber sabotage. The Houthis lost their operational reach. And Hamas, reduced to ruins, was forced to release every hostage in a desperate attempt to preserve a fragment of relevance. The balance of fear that once constrained Israel is gone; the balance of respect has taken its place.
The accords resisted the test of violence
While Israel fought for its survival, another remarkable fact stood out: not a single signatory of the Abraham Accords withdrew from them. The accords, first signed in 2020, withstood their first existential test. Instead of wavering, several Arab partners discreetly supported Israel through intelligence sharing, air-defense coordination, and behind-the-scenes diplomacy when Iran launched its direct missile and drone attack in April 2024. The solidarity shown in those hours changed everything.
Even nations that once watched from afar, Indonesia, Chad, Mauritania, and Bangladesh among them, began to reconsider their stance. The recent declaration by the Indonesian president at the United Nations, hinting at a new era of “constructive faith diplomacy,” is the clearest signal yet that the Abrahamic seed is quietly germinating beyond the Arab world. A silent majority in the Muslim world has grown weary of extremism and yearns for stability, technology, and prosperity.
Jerusalem and Washington on the rise, Europe on the decline
By far, the two greatest winners of this new order are Israel and the United States. Under President Trump’s second administration, Washington reasserted a simple but decisive principle: no peace can stand on the appeasement of terror. As Benjamin Netanyahu said : First strength, then peace. By offering Israel unconditional diplomatic and military backing, missile intercepts, ammunition resupply, B2 bunker buster bombing over Iranians’ nuclear facilities, and unwavering support at the U.N., the U.S. demonstrated both resolve and clarity.
The message to the Sunni capitals was unmistakable: America is back as the protector of those who reject Islamism and embrace modernization. In turn, Israel has become the model of deterrence and innovation, the partner capable of defending the region against ideological totalitarianism. Together, Jerusalem and Washington have laid the foundation of an “Abrahamic Alliance” to which President Trump hinted at today as a coalition of the descendants of Abraham determined to build peace, progress, and shared strength.
Europe, by contrast, has looked on, uncertain, divided, and largely irrelevant. Its leaders, clinging to outdated paradigms, failed to grasp the tectonic shifts underway. Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, and Pedro Sánchez, each in their own way, mistook moral posturing for strategy. Trapped in deficit spending, demographic decline, and internal communal fractures, Europe has lost its voice and its vision. While others forge new alliances, Europe debates semantics. It remains haunted by guilt rather than inspired by responsibility. Its defense industries are hollow; its diplomacy, fragmented; its societies, aging and anxious. In the new geopolitical grammar, Europe has become an observer, not an author.
An Alliance in the making
The Sharm el-Sheikh summit, convened in the wake of President Trump’s historic address before the Knesset, will formalize what has already begun: the birth of a new Middle Eastern architecture. This “Abrahamic Alliance” is not a mere peace treaty. It is an economic, cultural, and spiritual project, an effort to unite the descendants of Abraham around shared values and common interests.
Like the European Union in the aftermath of the Second World War, it aims to transform a geography of wars into a geography of cooperation. The path will be complex and uneven. Rivalries will persist. But the direction is irreversible. The fall of Gaza, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, marks the beginning of the end of an ideology, the death of Islamism as a political force.
Build together, build better
For Israelis and Gazans alike, this is the hour of healing and rebuilding. The sirens have gone silent. The rockets no longer streak across the night sky. A fragile hope rises from the rubble, the hope of coexistence without hatred, of governance without fanaticism, of faith without fear. Schools will reopen, roads will be rebuilt, and joint industrial zones will begin to emerge under international supervision.
This transformation will not erase the pain of the past, but it will give it meaning. The unbearable tragedy of October 7th will be remembered not only for its barbaric horror but for the rebirth it provoked, the day when the Middle East began to free itself from the grip of darkness. History will record that the Abrahamic Alliance was conceived not in conference rooms but in the fire of war, in the shared determination of nations to reject barbarism and to restore the dignity of belief. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were never meant to be banners of division. They are, at their core, branches of the same tree, rooted in the same soil of faith.
The Alliance that now takes shape is not about theological fusion but about moral convergence, a partnership between peoples who recognize that the true enemies of God are ignorance, tyranny, and hatred. In this alliance, faith serves progress, and progress honors faith.
Healing and blessing
Let this day of the celebration of Simha Torah (The joy of the Torah) in the jewish calendar, also be remembered as Day One of the Abrahamic Alliance, the dawn of a century where the descendants of Abraham choose cooperation over conflict. Just as the European Union gave the twentieth century a framework for peace after the devastation of total war, so too can the Abrahamic Alliance give the twenty-first century a foundation for reconciliation and shared prosperity among the heirs of the same Patriarch.
Communism, Nazism, Fascism, and now Islamism collectively claimed hundreds of millions of lives and left behind moral deserts. Their burial marks the rebirth of the enlightenment that refused to die. The children of Abraham can now look forward to a Middle East that exports not terror but technology, not dogma but education, not hatred but hope.
May this new covenant, born from tragedy, sealed in courage, and proclaimed in Jerusalem, bless the world from this day forward.
