Arab governments do not care about Palestine" In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that during private conversations with Arab leaders, they express to him that they do not care about Palestine and that they should talk about it in order to distance themselves from public pressure. He added that only European governments express concern about some of his ministers, such as Itamar Ben-Gvir, and that Arab leaders are only concerned with the survival of their governments. In an interview with The Economist in January, Netanyahu linked this directly to the Abraham Accords, saying that the normalization deals with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco would never have been signed if these leaders had not put aside the Palestinian issue: "They don't care about the Palestinian issue. They care about his effect on the street."