The Urgency of an FDA Abraham Accords Office
How proactive FDA policies can help strengthen the American pharmaceutical supply chain of essential medicines, create jobs through increased domestic manufacturing, reward our global allies, and further support peace in the Middle East.
Peter J. Pitts
Senior Fellow, U.S. Israel Education Association
President, Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
Visiting Professor, University of Paris School of Medicine
Former Associate Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Congresswoman, Washington’s fifth congressional district, 2005-2025
Congressional representative to the United Nations General Assembly, 2019-2020
Co-Founder, Abraham Accords Congressional Caucus
Fellow, U.S. Israel Education Association
Executive Summary
Problem: Foreign nations are holding America’s medicine cabinets for ransom. Today there is the very real risk of drug shortages being caused, on purpose, by foreign governments for political goals that put American patients at risk.
Solution: On-shore when possible. Friend-shore where plausible.
The creation of an FDA Abraham Accords Office represents a pragmatic, forward-looking solution to one of the most pressing structural weaknesses in U.S. public health security: its dependence on fragile and opaque pharmaceutical supply chains in China and India.
We must extricate our medical supply chain from countries that could weaponize this
dependence, by manufacturing on our own shores when practical and shifting our foreign
partnerships from places like China to more friendly nations such as those of the Abraham
Accords. That’s called “Friend-Shoring,” relocating manufacturing capacity to trusted partners who share regulatory standards and political alignment.
The Abraham Accords nations — Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco — combine advanced health infrastructure, political stability, and shared strategic alignment with the United States. Establishing an FDA presence in the region transforms diplomatic goodwill into a tangible health-security architecture.
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