UAE co-hosted an event in Washington on Tuesday and experts urge caution saying the fostering ties between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv will complicate conflicts in Palestine and Yemen
Critics have blasted an event on religious tolerance in Washington on Tuesday that is co-hosted by a pro-Israel group and the United Arab Emirates, saying that warming ties between those two power-blocks are bad for the region.
Critics warn that warmer Gulf-Israel ties will hurt the Palestinians, who are under pressure to accept the Trump administration’s long-awaited plan for Middle East peace that is widely tipped to favour Israel at their expense. In October last year, Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev, right, shakes hands with Mohamed Bin Tha'loob Al Derai, President of UAE Wrestling Judo & Kickboxing Federation, after an Israeli player won the bronze medal during the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Judo tournament in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. , which campaigns against anti-Jewish attacks, and, on its website, says: “We stand up for the Jewish State of Israel—the only democratically-elected government in the Middle East.
Rabbi Sarna’s involvement drew specific criticism via the Twitter account NYU for Yemen, which describes itself as a pro-Yemeni coalition of students from NYU, which has a satellite college campus in Abu Dhabi. Israel’s ties with Gulf states have warmed in recent years, primarily over a shared distrust of Iran and its push for regional hegemony.
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