Reports yesterday say Israel and Comoros are in talks to establish diplomatic relations. The Islands of Comoros is a Muslim-majority country and member of the Arab League. If it happens, Comoros will be the fifth Muslim country to either normalize ties with Israel or advance normalization in the last year, in the framework of the 2020 Abraham Accords. These American-sponsored agreements brought about normalization of diplomatic ties between Israel, the Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco. Sudan is apparently also on its way to finalizing normalization.
While the Israeli Foreign Ministry did not react to the Comoros reports, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said at his joint Oct. 13 press conference in Washington with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah Bin Zayed al Nahyan, “We are working on expanding the Abraham Accords. But first and foremost, we want to make sure that the current agreements we have will be a success story. And it is so far a success story. … We are going to push forward as hard as we can on this while working on expanding the Abraham Accords to other countries, including the ones you don’t think of.”
