As it was expected, the ‘historic’ UAE-Israeli peace deal did not contribute to the stability in the Middle East. Instead, the situation has been slowly, but steadily moving towards a larger confrontation in the region.
Immediately after the announcement of the US-sponsored peace deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that his country is not going to fulfill one of its key provisions – the suspension of the annexation of West Bank territories. The prime minister emphasized that the annexation plan was just delayed, but not suspended.
“There is no change to my plan to extend sovereignty, our sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, in full coordination with the United States,” Netanyahu said adding that “Israel will have comprehensive peace agreements with other Arab countries without returning to the 1967 borders.”
This unfortunate, but expected statement goes fully in the framework of the Israeli regional policy and contradicts position of the US-sponsored deal reached with the UAE. In particular, Crown Prince Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed emphasized that “it was agreed to stop Israel’s annexation of the Palestinian lands.”
The Israeli actions strengthened the already existing controversy over the deal and on August 15-16, the situation escalated in the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Palestinian protesters with explosives tried to approach the security fence and then Palestinian forces launched at least 2 rockets at southern Israel. In its own turn, IDF aircraft conducted a series of airstrikes on what Tel Aviv described as Hamas targets.
If the Israeli leadership keeps its course on the annexation of the West Bank areas, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will expectedly escalate, and even possibly expand further. For example, in this scenario, an escalation could be expected in the area of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights and on the Lebanese-Israeli contact line.
On August 14, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah already declared that the movement “will not remain silent on the crime of the bombing the Port of Beirut if it is proven that Israel is behind it.” According to Nasrallah, Hezbollah would wait for results of an investigation into the Beirut port explosion and if it turns out to be an act of sabotage by Israel then it would “pay an equal price”.
The August 4 blast in the port of Beirut is still surrounded by mystery and uncertainties, and many sources, including the top US leadership, still consider the possibility that the tragedy was caused by some kind of ‘attack’. In this event, the main suspect is Israel, which has always been interested in the destabilization of neighboring Arab states to secure own dominance in the region.
Tensions are also growing between the United States and Iran. On August 14, the Department of Justice announced that US forces have seized some 1.116m barrels of Iranian fuel aboard 4 ships headed for Venezuela. The seizure came amid increasing attacks on US forces and facilities from pro-Iranian and anti-US armed groups in Iraq.
On the evening of August 16, a rocket targeted the Green Zone of Iraq’s capital Baghdad, which houses government buildings and foreign missions. The strike led to no casualties. Just a few hours earlier, the pro-Iranian armed group Ashab al-Kahf released a video showing an improvised explosive device attack on a US equipment convoy in the Anbar area. The group claimed that the convoy was fully destroyed. On August 15, two rockets targeted the biggest US military base in Iraq – Camp Taji. The base is located north of Baghdad. On the same day, a convoy carrying logistical supplies for the U.S.-led coalition was targeted on the highway between Dhi Qar and Basrah in southern Iraq. The attack was conducted by another pro-Iranian group, Usbat al-Tha’ireen. Pro-US sources denied any casualties as a result of the attack. These were just the most recent in about two dozen various attacks on US-affiliated targets in Iraq during the past few weeks.
If the US and Iran continue the current confrontational course, it is expected that the number and intensity of attacks in Iraq will increase boosting the chances of an open confrontation between the US and Iranian-led forces.
This article does not support the claim that the compact with the Zionist entity and the UAE has crumbled. For that to happen, one of the parties would have had to withdraw from it. There is nothing in the article to suggest that that has happened, so why the dramatic headline? Expected better from Southfront.
Crown Prince Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed is being made to look like the pathetic fool he is, by his new “friend” Israel.
No sooner does he go and announce how the deal was about staving off annexation of Palestinian lands, and then we get the war criminals in Tel-A-Viv telling us: no such thing – the annexation will proceed in due time.
how much lower must these fools grovel before the people in the Gulf rise up and displace them to regain some dignity?
Selah
The US Oil Thieves in Syria had to defend themselves from the Syrian Army that tried to prevent a convoy of oil theft security troops from continuing past a road outpost. Heavy machine gun fire was unleashed from the US vehicles and one photo I saw look like something heavier hit the Syrians destroying a vehicle they had.
The Syrians lost at least one soldier, several wounded.
The oil thieves report no losses.
CENTCOM, the command staff of the Oil Thieves, also emphasized they did not use helicopters to punish the Syrians for protecting their land and natural resources which the US Oil Thieves are there to steal.
This action is clear evidence of US being #1 in the world. #1 Oil Thieves and #1 Enemy of the People of Syria.
Here’s more on the incident and the locals reacting against the US and Turks occupying Syrian land and stealing Syrian oil.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008181080205985-anti-us-protests-grip-hasakah-qamishli-in-wake-of-attack-on-syrian-troops–photos-video/
Colonel Cassad has more info and photo of the Russian General killed in the IED attack.
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/6105475.html
This was a huge IED remotely detonated, killing a Syrian General also and many other casualties.
Payback should be 10x.
There were tunnels underneath the port.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008091080114006-investigators-find-labyrinth-of-underground-rooms-at-epicenter-of-beirut-explosions-report-claims/
Yes, the Zionist-controlled MSM did report at one point that there were “suspicious” tunnels exposed by the blast. We’re also being told, by outlets like the Jerusalem Post, that precisely 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer somehow blasted a crater 43-meter (141 feet), twelve stories deep, into concrete and solid rock where I presume these tunnels were located. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists it would take a B61-11 bunker-buster bomb dialed up to around 200 kilotons to do that.
Maybe someday the actual truth of the Beirut explosion will come out, just like the truth of 9/11 eventually did, but I’m not holding my breath until this happens.
This approach is exactly what the US did in all treaties with the original American Indian tribes.
Conclude a ‘treaty’ then blindly disregard everything it promised.
Israel learned from history that it worked with weak opponents.