Brian Ruff

🚨 Trump demands Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan sign Abraham Accords as condition of Iran deal President Trump posted on Truth Social Monday demanding that all countries involved in Iran negotiations simultaneously sign the Abraham Accords, describing it as a prerequisite for any deal and warning those who refuse would be excluded from the agreement. “It should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote, naming Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain as targets. The UAE and Bahrain are already members. 🔸Trump warned: “If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention.” 🔸He said it “should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit.” 🔸He also dangled Iran’s own potential membership, writing: “If Iran signs its Agreement with me… it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition.” 🔹The Abraham Accords, brokered during Trump’s first term, normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Kazakhstan. Trump’s demand would require the mediating countries to recognize Israel and normalize relations as a condition of ending the Iran war — a significant ask given that Saudi Arabia has publicly conditioned any normalization on a credible and irreversible path to Palestinian statehood, a position shared in various forms by Turkey, Egypt, and others on the list. 🔹The demand comes as the U.S. has allowed Israel to continue the daily killing of Palestinians in Gaza for more than seven months since the October 2025 Trump-brokered ceasefire, with over 900 Palestinians killed since the agreement was approved by Israel. The U.S. and Israel are also deliberately blocking minimum levels of food, medicine, shelter, fuel, and reconstruction aid. 🔹President Trump has also removed sanctions on the most violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where rampant state-backed settler violence to uproot Palestinian families has gone unchecked since the start of his second term. 🔹Trump closed his social media post with a warning: “It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before.”

The Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Mr Thami Ntuli, is failing to diagnose the real reason behind the uprising against African migrants in his province and across the country. The truth is that this fight has nothing to do with legal or illegal migrants. Instead, it stems from the government’s failure to address how capital and businesses exclude South Africans from the economy and labour market. These entities prioritise foreign nationals for cheap labour exploitation, sidelining South African citizens in the process. This is done to undermine the Labour Relations Act, the government, and social cohesion in our country. If you listen to the protesters, they are very clear: they are complaining about job opportunities, economic exclusion, and criminal activities committed by both illegal and legal migrants. The core problem is the economic exclusion of locals while foreign nationals thrive under the watch of South African citizens. The sad reality is that even the leaders of these local protests are failing to correctly diagnose the problem, which makes their efforts appear futile. This contest is fundamentally about resources. The real solution is to target the main culprits...capital, businesses, and the government. The government must take tougher action against businesses and capital that undermine our laws and perpetuate these tensions, while the majority of our people remain trapped in poverty. The government must take full responsibility for giving capital and businesses leeway to undermine our labour laws in pursuit of higher profits.