AS you can imagine it is a plan that will not bring peace in the Middle East but it will give Israel more power than it deserves.
President Trump has made a new pivot in Iran peace talks: He’s now pitching a sweeping reset of Middle East relations that would widen a regional pact from his first term called the Abraham Accords. Trump wants more Muslim-majority countries to formally recognize or deepen ties with Israel, and he specifically called out Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan as targets for inclusion. He added that Iran itself could join once it signs a peace deal, asserting that the widened pact would be “the most important Deal” those countries would ever sign. Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates are the current signees, notes the Washington Post.
A Wall Street Journal analysis points out that the idea could give Trump an out with hawkish Republicans who have blasted the emerging Iran framework as too soft and too similar to the Obama-era nuclear deal Trump scrapped in his first term. Sens. Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and ex–national security adviser John Bolton all have warned the proposal could bolster Tehran. Graham, however, quickly pivoted to cheer Trump’s Abraham Accords expansion plan as “simply brilliant” and potentially transformative for the region. A New York Times analysis similarly notes that if “more countries sign up to the accords, it could placate some Iran hawks who have criticized Mr. Trump for pursuing a peace deal.”
The major obstacle: the countries Trump is pressuring. Saudi Arabia has repeatedly said it won’t normalize relations with Israel without a credible path to Palestinian statehood—something even more remote after Israel’s devastating campaign in Gaza and clashes with Iran. Pakistan’s defense minister already has rejected the idea of joining, notes the Times of India. Qatari officials likewise signaled they’re not on board and would only engage Israel on resolving the Palestinian issue. Trump’s vision is “a hope tethered to a galaxy far, far away,” Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tells the Journal. Gulf leaders risk public backlash if they move closer to Israel under current conditions, he says.
This is just another attempt to give Israel the lead in the Middle East….a country that thinks genocide is a good option for settling grievances.
These Accords give Israel everything and peanuts to everyone else involved.
I say screw Israel….the sooner this parasite is put in its place the sooner peace can be achieved in the Middle East….Israel has never held up to any of its commitments to peace in the region ….why would this one be any different?
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“lego ergo scribo”
It’s all way beyond me…I am just worried about what “Our” future holds for us as time marches on.
“Our” future is pretty much the same as it has been for 60 years….dismal chuq
Let’s face it. Trump has basically nothing here. He is legally in violation of the war powers act. The “cease fire’ was nothing but an attempt to wriggle around the 60 day time limit on his authority and the congress is too cowardly to try to do anything about it. Now popular opinion of him is cratering even among his cult. His actions in Iran have backfired totally. What he thought was going to be forcing Iran into yielding to him by dropping a few bombs has turned into this fiasco with massive political and economic repercussions around the world. And he is now in position to go down in history as having totally fecked up everything, from the horrific mistake of attacking in the first place, to failing to have any sort of plan as to what to do, to actually having the US come out of this far worse than when we went in.
Basically he’s in a state of full blown panic here behind the scenes. This is, at best, a distraction, a diversion. He’s trying to push the responsibility for the failure of this little excursion of his off onto the other Arab countries. He knows they will never sign off on this, and he’s hoping he can use them as a scapegoat and laying the blame for this fiasco on them instead of on himself.
GF you are right this proposal is nothing new…..the same as it has always been….Israel gets a free ride and everyone else must bow down. chuq
President Trump has made a new pivot in Iran peace talks: He’s now pitching a sweeping reset of Middle East relations that would widen a regional pact from his first term called the Abraham Accords.
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The states which sign on the the so-called “Abraham Accords” will stay after school and write “We will not fight against Israel” one hundred times on the blackboard. This is what you call your dog and pony show, unfortunately: – the often-used fundamental business sales tactic of tricking or bamboozling potential “customers” into an agreement which spells out specifications or terms for surrender.
Exactly….as usual Israel gets a free ride and everyone else must kiss their butts…..chuq
If Iran signs the Abraham Accord I will have to eat my hat!
Best wishes, Pete.
I will join you and bring the brown sauce. chuq
Words, words, and more words. When this set of words doesn’t work, there will be another set forthcoming.
But usually they are the same just arranged a slightly different order. chuq