The Abraham Accord Declaration and the Art of Deception through Propaganda and Public Relations Anthony Hall1 The Abraham Accords Declaration: We, the undersigned, recognize the importance of maintaining and strengthening peace in the Middle East and around the world based on mutual understanding and coexistence, as well as respect for human dignity and freedom, including religious freedom. We encourage efforts to promote interfaith and intercultural dialogue to advance a culture of peace among the three Abrahamic religions and all humanity. We believe that the best way to address challenges is through cooperation and dialogue and that developing friendly relations among States advances the interests of lasting peace in the Middle East and around the world. We seek tolerance and respect for every person in order to make this world a place where all can enjoy a life of dignity and hope, no matter their race, faith or ethnicity. We support science, art, medicine, and commerce to inspire humankind, maximize human potential and bring nations closer together. We seek to end radicalization and conflict to provide all children a better future. We pursue a vision of peace, security, and prosperity in the Middle East and around the world. In this spirit, we welcome and are encouraged by the progress already made in establishing diplomatic relations between Israel and its neighbors in the region under the principles of the Abraham Accords. We are encouraged by the ongoing efforts to consolidate and expand such friendly relations based on shared interests and a shared commitment to a better future. ______________________________________________________________ 1- Tenured professor of globalization studies, University of lethbridge The spin doctors of the military-industrial complex residing at the very heart of the Israel-US alliance regularly present the demons of death and destruction in their arsenals of war as celestial angels seeking to save humanity from conflict and destruction. The lies of the Zio-American Ministries of Military Propaganda regularly misrepresent the smashing of Muslim-majority countries, cities, peoples, and life-support networks as acts of edification. The Abraham Accord Declaration offers a classic example of a new military alliance presenting itself as a peace initiative decked out in the holy hallelujah language of love, enlightenment and reciprocal relations. The Abraham Accord It is often posited that the “normalization” of diplomatic relations between UAE and Israel continues trends that reflect a gradual process. The process is presented as if the Arab population in Western Asia are coming to accept the presence in their midst of the Israeli entity. This observation fails to take into account the scope and depth of how much Arab animosity to the Abraham accord has been expressed on social media. Now the Abraham accord lays out a framework for continuing the process aimed at securing more Arab acceptance of Israel. The Abraham accord was soon extended to include Bahrain. Before 1968 Bahrain hosted a British naval base. Now it hosts a huge US naval base. Its often-unstable governing structure is complicated by the fact that Bahrain’s population is majority Shiite Muslim while its ruling family is Sunni. President Donald Trump, whose son-in-law Jared Kushner played a significant role in the negotiations, indicated that other Arab polities will probably join the Abraham accord in the future. The government of Sudan did join the Zio- American-dominated polity in late October on the basis of a deal that removed the country from being on the US list of terrorist polities. Presenting War Plans as Initiatives for Peace The Abraham Accord Declaration is written in the extravagant language of Public Relations (PR) and American advertising. Edward Bernays, the nephew of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, came up with the term, Public Relations, after 1945. The biggest and most lucrative Public Relation contracts involve the design of many forms of subliminal advertising to engineer public opinions meant to support aggressive warfare. The career of Edward Bernays mapped out this trajectory of propaganda, politics and warfare. The demonization and dehumanization of the targeted group is an essential process in selling an aggressive war to the citizens of a country whose government wants to push forward an agenda of military invasion. For example, US President, George H. W. Bush, hired the Public Relations Company, Hill and Knowlton, to conduct a psychological operation to convince the American people that a US-led invasion of Iraq was justified. At the time the Iraqi government led by Saddam Hussein had just invaded and occupied Kuwait. The executives at Hill and Knowlton hired the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States to pretend she had witnessed an atrocity in a Kuwaiti hospital. Over the course of many years, powerful interests including Public Relations companies have been working hard to turn public opinion against the people and government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The government of Israel has been especially aggressive in taking advantage of all its influence in the United States to get the people and government there behind an invasion of Iran. One of the needs in this campaign is to make the envisaged regime-change invasion of Iran look like a mission of mercy to protect good people against bad people and bad government as depicted in the propaganda manipulations of war hawks. The Abraham accord is part of the process of presenting a military alliance being formed to invade Iran as if it is an alliance for “strengthening peace in the Middle East and around the world.” The Abraham Accord Declaration is quite obviously written by Public Relations specialists well schooled in the propaganda techniques. Edward Bernays largely pioneered these techniques of creating public support for military invasions of targeted groups. The Abraham Accord is quite clearly a rosy Public Relations document to misrepresent the recruiting and arming of Arab polities in preparation for a military invasion of Iran. Weapons Deals and Intercultural Dialogue By invoking “a vision of peace, security, and prosperity in the Middle East and around the world,” the Abraham Accord Declaration gives cover to an overt plan for augmented war in West Asia and Eurasia. This war plan has nothing to do with “tolerance and respect for every person in order to make this world a place where all can enjoy a life of dignity and hope, no matter their race, faith or ethnicity.” Rather the Abraham accord seeks to exacerbate ethnic distinctions to divide Arabs from Persians. It seeks to draw in widened Arab involvement in an Israeli-inspired regime change war directed at toppling the Islamic Republic of Iran in its present form. The effort to stir up antagonism between Arabs and Persians has a long and dishonorable history in the history of many European powers’ efforts to assert imperial authority in the heartland of Eurasia. The tactics of divide-and-conquer are as old as imperial empires that have long looked for ways of asserting dominance in the strategic cross-roads of the world’s biggest land mass. For decades the Israeli government has worked to persuade the US government and people to direct the military muscle of the US Armed Forces toward the destruction of Iran. The Israeli IDF is in no position to itself to defeat a country of over 80 million people possessing an ancient civilizational heritage and a sophisticated military apparatus. The government of the Jewish state requires the exercise of US military muscle to engage in the biggest and most ambitious of the series of US wars for Israel that picked up in pace after the false flag terror event of September 11, 2001. The Israelis found in US President Donald Trump a willing collaborator in the demonization, dehumanization and attempted destruction of Iran. On his way to buying into the Netanyahu agenda on Iran, Trump pulled out the United States from adherence to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The JCPOA is a UN agreement meant to provide regular international inspection of the operation of Iran’s nuclear energy program in exchange for some relief for Iran from US-led economic sanctions. The plan of these sanctions is to impose so much suffering on the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran that they will be pushed into revolt against their leaders and the governing system itself. The sanctions are constructed in such a way that they impact most strongly the lives of average people including those requiring medicines that can only be obtained outside Iran. The Trump government outdid previous US governments in the harshness of its push to cut Iran off from healthy reciprocity with many countries. The mentality animating this maltreatment of the Iranian government and peoples runs in the opposite direction of Abraham accord’s empty propaganda claim that it stands for unwavering “support of science, art, medicine, and commerce to inspire humankind, maximize human potential and bring nations closer together.” On the way to the Abraham accord Donald Trump took credit for the murder by drone of Iranian soldier and diplomat, General Qassem Soleimani plus his entourage and Iraqi hosts. This violation of international criminal law took place during the opening days of 2020. Later in 2020 the Israeli government took responsibility for an elaborate assassination operation to kill Iran’s senior nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The assassination of nuclear