Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will stand opposite the Knesset dais Oct. 15 as he brings the Abraham Accords — the agreement that normalizes relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — to a vote.

True, the law does not require the prime minister to bring the agreement to the Knesset for validation after it was ratified by the government Oct. 12. But Netanyahu wants his big moment. It’s really the issue of respecting the country’s parliament by presenting it with the accords and seeking its approval. Netanyahu needs this festive ceremony on a personal level too. Almost certainly, the topic of normalizing relations with the UAE will be discussed at great lengths in the autobiography he will pen someday.

For Netanyahu, the Knesset session on Thursday will be a moment of victory in which he will garner the support of most of the Knesset members. That will include people affiliated with Israel’s left wing who have argued for scores of years that the heart of Israel-Arab diplomacy lies in a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. This was the solid, stable worldview that dictated political discussion in Israel for dozens of years: The Center-Left believed in the two-state solution outline. The formal foundations of this policy were laid in 1993 on the White House lawn when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accord together with PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile, the ideological right wing warned against partitioning the land and returning parts of it to the Palestinians.

Most of the Israeli public supported Netanyahu’s normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain and were happy about it. Many Israelis tend to view it as proof for Netanyahu’s insistence that diplomatic relations with Arab countries can be achieved before an agreement with the Palestinians. This was the prime minister’s mantra over the years, and even his greatest opponents cannot deny the fact that this process — normalization — is indeed taking place at this point in time.