Peace in the Middle East?

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Trump-announces-a-'peace-agreement'-between-Bahrain-and-Israel-51018.html

This Catholic news article seems to catch the right air of cynicism with regard to the recent Trumpite peace accords. Various Arab nations have been signing on to the pro-Israel axis so aggressively advocated by Trump and his Likud allies. An era of peace is about dawn on the Middle East or so we're told.

The truth is otherwise. Even as Trump has absurdly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (an award already massively discredited) the 'peace accords' are in reality a march toward war.

They represent the building of a political alliance against Iran – and what is becoming a military alliance. It is also playing with fire as a regional conflict with Iran may include the likes of China and Russia who are (during this Cold War phase) becoming increasingly involved. Throw in the wild cards such as Turkey and the situation looks volatile and even nightmarish.

The ploy on the part of the United States is a desperate one – an attempt to secure US imperialism by the seizure of the world's resources. And while there are significant elements within the US Establishment that oppose Trump on this point and his sundering of the Iranian nuclear deal – there are others that quietly support these moves.

Secondly, there is the issue of the Palestinians. These moves made by corrupt Arab states and monarchies are a gift both to Iran and the Palestinian movement. We are on the cusp of a new era of paramilitary and terroristic violence. These moves all but beg Iran to pour fuel on smoldering fires. The old narrative of corrupt and compromised Gulf monarchies will certainly be revivified once more – a powerful recruiting tool for radicals. I look for more trouble between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority as the latter has been made to look like a fool by these agreements.

Bahrain is particularly a non-story in that the Sunni monarchy is but a proxy for the House of Saud. Its brutal suppression of the Arab Spring protests was largely ignored by Western media because to cover the story was to earn the ire of the House of Saud and its allies in the US Establishment.

As some media commentators continue to point out – these exercises in Israeli-Arab diplomacy are not comparably to previous peace deals signed with the likes of Egypt and Jordan. Bahrain and the UAE were never at war with Israel and the truth is these nations have been working with Israel for many years. The only thing that's happening here is that they are formalising the relationship – bringing it into the open. It sends a strong signal to Iran, boosts Netanyahu who continues to flirt with dictatorship and bolsters Trump's standing among some Evangelicals who have mistakenly embraced Dispensational theology and its theology regarding the Zionist state.

Peace would be a wonderful thing but there's little in these agreements to suggest that peace is on the horizon. They mark no change. But their open declaration is in fact a provocation aimed at Tehran. These events signal no peace. They actually are a signal for pending war.