In the summer of 2020, Walid Phares wrote in al Arabiyya about the newly signed Abraham Accords. Phares had spoken with Trump about Middle East peace possibilities well before the first Trump presidency began and he knew that Trump was ready to press for a breakthrough deal that seemed within reach. However, those who did not prefer democracy or even peaceability to the world’s premier terror state and its clients, had power and were determined to impose their will.

Phares wrote:
Few predicted that the Obama bureaucracy, still operating under a Trump Administration, with the help of the opposition, not only would keep the White House off balance with fiery investigations on national security, but would also try to discredit Trump’s Arab allies in the region via media blasts. It took the White House and its allies in Congress almost three years to free themselves from the mud of the so-called investigations, and later the impeachment attempts, followed by six months of COVID-19 pandemic, to be ready for such an event. Despite all delays, the announcement has been made and the peace deal has now a life of its own.
The immense significance of the Abraham Accords was effectively buried by the legacy media, along with every other news story believed favorable to Trump. The insurrectionary Obama bureaucracy moved to emulate tyrannies past and present by effectively exercising crushing media censorship and so tipping the electoral scales. Biden was elected, and the Obama crew that effectively ran his cognitively impaired administration moved to resurrect Iran, which in turn resuscitated its clients in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, who then together worked to surround and crush Israel.
Anything Qatar runs is suspect. They are Wahhabists in Prada, dedicated to a smart, maybe even a brat, jihad.
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