So much for the politically tepid Abraham Accords

[noseall]

Meanwhile, both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have signalled they won't let Washington use their airspace for any attack on Tehran.

In a statement after the call with Saudi Arabia, Iran's foreign ministry appeared to carry a warning to the US, saying:

"Both sides warned of the serious consequences of any escalation of tensions in the region on regional peace and stability, emphasising the shared responsibility of all regional countries and their joint efforts to maintain stability and security in the region."

Read more.

 

[Highway Man]

Meanwhile, both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have signalled they won't let Washington use their airspace for any attack on Tehran.

In a statement after the call with Saudi Arabia, Iran's foreign ministry appeared to carry a warning to the US, saying:



Read more.

Big deal.. frightened are ya?

 

[noseall]

Big deal

Because of the rather impotent Accords? Not especially no. I had little faith in them anyway.

 

[Highway Man]

Because of the rather impotent Accords? Not especially no. I had little faith in them anyway.

Poor luv.

 

[fillyboy]

Meanwhile, both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have signalled they won't let Washington use their airspace for any attack on Tehran.

Have you looked at a map of the area lately.

Any US attack would be from the Arabian Sea or Iraq, we've sent Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar and Israel is where it's been for thousands of years.

To overfly the areas you mention we'd need to be flying or firing missiles in the wrong direction away from Iran.

Phew.

 

[Highway Man]

Have you looked at a map of the area lately.

Any US attack would be from the Arabian Sea or Iraq, we've sent Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar and Israel is where it's been for thousands of years.

To overfly the areas you mention we'd need to be flying or firing missiles in the wrong direction away from Iran.

Phew.

He is not very bright

 

[aveatry]

He is not very bright

Will somebody please give this man some work, someone must need a hole digging

 

[noseall]

waffle

It's a very bold statement from the Arabs. Kinda puts value on those toothless accords you hold so dear.

 

[noseall]

Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead.

The gathering threw its support behind a plan to rebuild Gaza put forward by Egypt and backed by Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, aimed at countering Trump’s call. The OIC has 57 nations with largely Muslim populations.

Without specifically mentioning Trump, the ministers’ statement said they rejected “plans aimed at displacing the Palestinian people individually or collectively … as ethnic cleansing, a grave violation of international law and a crime against humanity.”

Accords? Pfft

 

[fillyboy]

Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead.

The gathering threw its support behind a plan to rebuild Gaza put forward by Egypt and backed by Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, aimed at countering Trump’s call. The OIC has 57 nations with largely Muslim populations.

Without specifically mentioning Trump, the ministers’ statement said they rejected “plans aimed at displacing the Palestinian people individually or collectively … as ethnic cleansing, a grave violation of international law and a crime against humanity.”

Accords? Pfft

Always good to see alternative plans come to the table.

 

[Highway Man]

Will somebody please give this man some work, someone but need a hole digging

He needs one digging

 

[noseall]

While there were some economic benefits, Abraham Accords now stand against a rising political cost. Since 2020, no new Arab state has joined the accords despite Donald Trump’s efforts. Saudi normalisation, once described as the “crown jewel”, looks more remote than ever.

Ozgülük argues that Israeli policy is to blame: “It is unimaginable [for Arab states] under the escalation of Israeli militarisation and the strangling of the two-state solution … the cost of joining the Abraham Accords has risen dramatically.”

Five years after they were signed, the Abraham Accords remain in place, but their promise of regional transformation looks fragile. Israel’s unprecedented aggression on Gaza, ruled as genocide by the UN, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and now Qatar, has placed unprecedented strain on them.

The question is not whether the accords will collapse overnight, but whether continued violence will steadily hollow them out, leaving behind paper agreements divorced from political reality.

 

[motorbiking]

Have you looked at a map of the area lately.

Any US attack would be from the Arabian Sea or Iraq, we've sent Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar and Israel is where it's been for thousands of years.

To overfly the areas you mention we'd need to be flying or firing missiles in the wrong direction away from Iran.

Phew.

you might need to draw him a picture.

 

[noseall]

you might need to draw him a picture.

Me? I didn't make the statement. Can you not read?

I'm not the one ignoring the toothless accords and telling the US to do one. If their airspace is so irrelevant, then why put out the statement in the first place? If that is the case then it makes their statement even more poignant.

Abraham Accords, lol.

 

[fillyboy]

Me? I didn't make the statement. Can you not read?

I'm not the one ignoring the toothless accords and telling the US to do one. If their airspace is so irrelevant, then why put out the statement in the first place? If that is the case then it makes their statement even more poignant.

Abraham Accords, lol.

Saudi are not in the accords, also, when commenting on any action involving Israel or the US, Saudi tend to use 'double speak' to placate it's Muslim neighbours despite usually supporting the US, not so much Israel.

Twas always thus, I wouldn't read too much into it..