Here we explain the codes that lie behind the Arab World’s official silence over the UAE-Israel deal
The oil-rich UAE’s recent deal with Israel has been met with strong condemnations from non-Arab countries like Pakistan, Turkey and Iran, but the Arab world has largely chosen to stay conspicuously silent, giving the impression that they gave a nod to the deal beforehand.
“The Gulf’s camp will use the UAE as a test balloon to assess the reactions to the deal and to pave the way for their own normalization. The speed of normalization between Israel and other Gulf Arab countries is now largely dependent on the consequences of the Israel-UAE deal,” Baroud assessed. US President Donald Trump announces that Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached a peace deal that will lead to the full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two Middle Eastern nations in an agreement that Trump helped broker, at White House in Washington, US, August 13, 2020.
“For years, the Middle East has been divided into two major political camps, one led by Israel and Saudi Arabia and the other by Iran.
While Baroud does not see a big change in the current regional power structure, he also expects “a more brazen joint anti-Iranian rhetoric that will take place in the open.” “These regimes think that by aligning themselves with Israel and the US, they can bring down revolutionary Iran and they can bring down assertive Turkey and they can bring down any sense of democratic rule or representation. And hell with the Palestinians. They don’t care about Palestinians,” Arian says.
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