KATHYKELLY, [email protected], @voiceinwild
Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War. She just wrote the piece “We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords,” which states: “Now, lead Trump envoy Steve Witkoff hints at an upcoming expansion of the Abraham Accords, a set of bilateral treaties between Israel and U.S. allied autocracies which essentially serve as massive arms deals in exchange for normalization of relations with Israel. To date, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan have entered into these agreements which leave the issue of Palestinian safety and self-determination totally out of the picture. One by one, the Arab countries entering into the Abrahamic Accords abdicate meaningful solidarity with Palestine in exchange for economic deals and access to state-of-the-art U.S. weapons which they use to subjugate domestic dissent and engage in foreign wars. … The Abraham Accords are not a peace deal: they represent a confederacy of killers.”
See IPA news release from 2020: “Trump: Paying Off Morocco with Western Sahara to Recognize Israel.”
Trump is scheduled to be in the region next week, and just made an agreement with Ansar Allah in Yemen to stop attacks.
AntiWar.com reports: “India Fires Missiles Into Pakistan and Pakistan-Administered Kashmir.”
JUNAID AHMAD, [email protected], @Academicatarms
Ahmad teaches law, religion, and world politics in Pakistan and is the director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality. He just wrote the piece “The art of distraction: War drums, dictatorships, and the dance of nuclear madness,” which states: “What was feared has happened. India has launched military strikes deep inside Pakistan, and Islamabad claims to have retaliated in kind. The spark? A terrorist attack over a week ago in Indian-occupied Kashmir. As has become tradition, New Delhi wasted no time in pointing the finger at Islamabad, offering no concrete evidence — only the kind of absolute certainty that usually accompanies nationalist fervor, not forensic investigations. Pakistan, for its part, condemned the attack and pledged cooperation in any investigation — knowing full well it would be ignored. In the theatre of South Asian crisis management, evidence is optional; outrage is mandatory.”