Trump weaponizes Abraham Accords to pressure Iran, obscuring regional militarization and Palestinian dispossession
Original framing: “Trump links Abraham Accords to any Iran deal” — The Japan Times
Trump’s linkage of the Abraham Accords to Iran negotiations embodies the trickster’s inversion: he frames Iran as the aggressor while ignoring how U.S. sanctions and Israeli strikes (e.g., 2020 Soleimani assassination) provoke retaliatory actions. The 'Abraham' branding itself is a trickster’s sleight of hand, invoking a shared patriarchal figure to obscure centuries of Muslim-Jewish coexistence in the region (e.g., Andalusia, Ottoman millets). As Bakhtin’s carnivalesque suggests, the absurdity of 'peace deals' masking war profiteering reveals the true power dynamics at play.
The Abraham Accords are not a peace initiative but a U.S.
-Israeli-Gulf state alliance to contain Iran, suppress Palestinian rights, and expand military-industrial profits, echoing Cold War-era pacts like the Baghdad Pact. Trump’s linkage of the accords to Iran negotiations exposes the absurdity of framing normalization as 'peace' while ignoring how sanctions and settlements fuel regional instability—mirroring the trickster’s inversion of power. Indigenous Palestinian and Iranian communities resist this framework through land reclamation and cultural preservation, while marginalized voices (Yemeni civilians, Mizrahi Jews) reveal the accords’ hypocrisy. A systemic solution requires dismantling the U.S. arms nexus, centering Palestinian sovereignty, and building South-South solidarity to challenge imperialist militarization. The future hinges on whether the Global South can forge an alternative to U.S.-led 'peace' deals, or if the region will succumb to apartheid and perpetual war.