The UAE’s national security advisor visited Iran on Monday in a sign of warming ties between the two nations, and Israel is unhappy about the rapprochement.
During the visit to Iran by the UAE’s Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Iranian officials said they were happy to ease tensions with Abu Dhabi. “Improving ties with the regional countries is my government’s priority, therefore we welcome improving ties with the UAE,” said Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
An Israeli official told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the UAE’s diplomacy with Iran is “worrying” and “not acceptable.” Israel normalized relations with the UAE last year and is hoping to work with Abu Dhabi and other Gulf states against Iran.
A major aspect of the US-brokered normalization deals was to isolate Iran in the region. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reportedly raised the idea of an anti-Iran NATO-style military alliance in the Middle East in a meeting with President Biden over the summer.
Israel has been moved under US Central Command’s area of operations to foster cooperation between the Jewish state and the US’s Arab allies. In November, the US, Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain held their first official joint military exercises, showing a united front against Iran.
To funny the sneaky Iranians are befriending the Saudi’s and the Emirates.
Enough!!! There is no rapprochement this is all about coming to an understanding that whatever chaos uae weaves don’t come back to haunt them in their own territory.
Ksa is large but uae can easily be burned to the ground so this is about coming to terms where uae pulls back a,little and missiles don’t come flying towards the city states.
israel is just mad because they pay about $8.00 US per gallon of gasoline while the UAE pays about 50 cents and iran pays only 23 cents per gallon
And just to think, I thought more peaceful relations in the ME was a good thing.
But not good for the narrative
“not acceptable”? That is diplomatic kindergarten stuff. The government of Israel is sinking, sinking, sinking.
Tension between the players creates higher prices for the oil producers.
Did the UAE get their bribe for signing the Abraham Accords as of yet? If not, don’t hold your breath.
The strategic points are the straits, Hormuz and Bab al Mandab. For the first: The US/Israel has Dubai and Iran has the other side. For the second: US/Israel has Djibouti on the African side, but is contesting Iran for Yemen on the opposite. Further the US is having difficulty in controlling the near neighbors ( Sudan/Eritrea and Somalia) on the East African side, and now with the UAE a similar unravelling could be happening on the Arabian side. Intimating the likelihood that when the hot metal starts flying the US/Israel will find itself friendless on all sides.
1- Iran is more isolated than before .- Israel
2- Does Iran want to remain a pariah or does it want to reintegrtae with civilized world ? US + Israel
3 – UAE reaching out toIran is not acecpatble – Isarel.
4 – Arab league shouldnt bring Syria back to the league – US
that’s what makes one wonder one thing – does the rectal sphincter make them sound intelligent or do the lips make them sound stupid ?
Referring to Israel as a “Jewish state” is incorrect. Israel is a Zionist state. Judaism is an Abrahamic religion. Zionism is a political ideology. Zionism is no more Jewish than the Borgia papacy was Christian.
Zionism is premised, depending on which Zionist you talk to, in:
1) Judaism as a religious identity; and/or
2) Christianity as a religious identity; and/or
3) Jewishness as an ethnic identity.
It is, however, somewhat dishonest to refer to Israel as “a” Jewish state, since a significant portion of its citizens are neither ethnic or religious Jews, or as “the” Jewish state, since it has no claim to the support or loyalty of Jews as such (many Jews are neither Israeli in nationality nor Zionist in political opinion).
Zionism is premised, depending on which Zionist you talk to, in:
1) Judaism as a religious identity; and/or
2) Christianity as a religious identity; and/or
3) Jewishness as an ethnic identity.
It is, however, somewhat dishonest to refer to Israel as “a” Jewish state, since a significant portion of its citizens are neither ethnic or religious Jews, or as “the” Jewish state, since it has no claim to the support or loyalty of Jews as such (many Jews are neither Israeli in nationality nor Zionist in political opinion).
Zionism is premised, depending on which Zionist you talk to, in:
1) Judaism as a religious identity; and/or
2) Christianity as a religious identity; and/or
3) Jewishness as an ethnic identity.
It is, however, somewhat dishonest to refer to Israel as “a” Jewish state, since a significant portion of its citizens are neither ethnic or religious Jews, or as “the” Jewish state, since it has no claim to the support or loyalty of Jews as such (many Jews are neither Israeli in nationality nor Zionist in political opinion).
created confusion helps to spill same rotten milk for the consumption by different audience seperated by the space and time .
In their Declaration of Independence? They declared it to be one!
Q: How many legs does a dog have if you call its tail a leg?
A: Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Suggest you look up analogy. That wasn’t one! Fail!
In what sense have they not followed through?
Britain is a declared Christian state
Saudi Arabia is a Muslim o be.
Nepal is a Hindu state.
Israel a Jewish one and
America is secular. God not required!
The key word is “declared.”
I can “declare” anything I want to “declare.” And reality doesn’t give a tinker’s damn that I “declared” it. Reality will be what it is no matter what I “declare.”
Modern Israel came into existence on 14 May 1948 as the homeland for the Jewish people. It was also defined in its declaration of independence as a “Jewish state,” a term that appeared in the United Nations partition decision of 1947 as well.
They did!