Negev Summit succeeded beyond expectations

Such a meeting in Israel was unthinkable for decades before the Abraham Accords!

When you look at the photo below, then U.S. Secretary of State Blinken appears almost in the middle. However, according to this article, he played essentially no role or his contributions were not worth mentioning. We learn that Blinken had dinners with the Middle East dignitaries. Why was he even at the meeting?

"This week’s Negev Summit was the Abraham Accords put into action. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid worked with his counterparts from Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates on addressing their shared challenges and interests, along with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, representing America’s encouragement and support. ...
The foreign ministers established working groups in six different areas ...
One could actually see that a kind of regional architecture of sorts is starting to be conceptualized ...

Each and every country that was present in the room has suffered from terrorism ...

[The attack] only emphasized the need to have a united policy and a united answer to such threats. The way to do it is by sharing – sharing intelligence, sharing information – and early warning systems, everything that can really help us detect a problem and the threat, and respond to it. ...

Leading up to this conference, there were some tensions between Gulf states – especially the UAE and Saudi Arabia – and the United States. They were not happy with the US response to attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on their lands ...
I can’t talk for the Americans, but I think that the summit allowed for ample time for all foreign ministers to meet with Antony Blinken. They had dinner together. They had the one-on-one meetings with him. You saw them together on the podium. So I think that Secretary of State Blinken had ample time to listen and to take in some of the things that were said, at least. And what he heard showed that the views were shared by a lot of the foreign ministers. So I would imagine that it was taken in. ...
with Blinken talking from the podium, is that the US is here to stay, that it’s fully committed, that it’s going to work with its allies and partners in the region ...

During the conference, we signed an agreement that is a kind of a road map to promote relationships, and to further deepening of the relationships. That was the only agreement that was signed during this conference. ...

As we speak, there are trade delegations heading to Bahrain, more trade, more business, more [research and development] centers that are going to open, more Israeli companies that are thinking of opening up offices in Bahrain. ...

Israel was sending a naval officer to be stationed in Bahrain. ...

It will happen soon. They are finalizing the bureaucratic paperwork that is attached to sending a military officer to a foreign country. ..."

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