“PERFID FRIENDS”

Has Israel changed its view of the Arabs? Why the Zionist elite has not changed and it will be a matter of time before they reveal what they have always been

By Ali Al-Najafi

Donald Trump's administration left many marks in the domestic political life of the US but also in foreign policy. One of these is undoubtedly the influence that he managed to exert on the Arab monarchies of the Gulf so that they lower their guard and approach Israel. But the latter in some cases were mere appearances. The already well-known secret relations between Tel Aviv and Riyadh with which for years they annoyed their Yemeni, Lebanese, Syrian and Iraqi brothers seem to have whitewashed with another of the rich Gulf emirates such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is how in September 2020 the so-called “Abrahamic Agreement” was signed.

As usually happens, there was a previous period of time in which both parties established intense conversations under the strictest confidentiality and that is that, beyond the apparently incredible thing about this situation (Arab leaders talking with Israeli namesakes), the Arab citizens of a foot do not forget the history and role of Israel in the region and in particular the Palestinian cause and that is why (beyond what the Israeli and Emirati media publish) a broad rejection persists in popular sentiment.

It also does no harm to the global BDS political movement against Israeli apartheid, as pro-Israeli supporters and media around the globe try to show. In addition, there is something very important to consider and that is that (as the French philosopher Alain De Banoist points out) Israel is not the regional power that some suggest, but rather an extension of Anglo-Saxon foreign policy since without the support of Washington and London it would not have a chance. to exist in the Middle East.

That condition of pariah is what moves him to seek contact with the Arabs beyond his recognized contempt for them. And although with the pompous name “Abrahamic” they seek empathy with the Arab Semites, deep down it is just a strategy and nothing more. It is a political agreement between governments (among the political elite) and framed by financial, economic and commercial interests that are only suitable for Emirati and Israeli businessmen. But behind this there is a much more important interest for Tel Aviv and that is, to have a foot in the Persian Gulf and off the coast of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Clearly, the benefits of the strategic association have a great interested party with expectations that are not good for regional stability.

But beyond the media makeup with which this relationship is presented, many Arab citizens and political leaders in the region know that Israel is like the scorpion, it cannot deal with its nature and as such, it does not lose its lethality by trusting it and when it has the opportunity stung.

We could see this in mid-January when a remarkable and powerful drone attack launched from Yemen by the Houthi resistance hit the UAE when the Israeli president and his wife were on a visit to Abu Dhabi. Obviously the media emphasized the Yemeni attackers and the damage they caused to the Abu Dhabi Airport and the "Mussafah" industrial zone, but nobody asked these questions: How and why the Yemeni Drones were able to cross the peninsula without being detected by US CENTCOM and its Israeli partners? Who provides these Drones to the Houthies?

Some sources do not hesitate to point out that Israel would be the one who, through third parties, would be triangulating Drones and other kinds of devices so that the Houthies maintain parity on the ground with the disproportionate pro-Saudi coalition. Their objective? Maintain tension in the region.

This has left a strange taste to the Emiratis. Something here is not explained with simple logic. Why did the Americans - partners with the Israelis - not warn the Emiratis of the ongoing attack? Letting go is part of a black operation and that is why, it would not have been a better time for it when the Israeli president was in the emirate. In addition, they were well aware that the Israeli delegation would not be hit by the attack and in the worst case, for Israel the president is someone politically insipid and not indispensable.

On the other hand, if something happened to Herzog and his wife, it would be the perfect excuse to reinforce their interference in the entire peninsula. Considering this framework, the development of the next World Cup in the emirate could be the ideal scenario to create a false flag for this aspiration.

But this should not surprise anyone since Israel did not change its tricks and its expansive plans for some signed papers. For example, although he remains silent about many events that shake Lebanon and in which he is strongly suspected of having an intervention in one way or another, the facts end up showing that he is not a reliable actor. This is related to the scandal that arose after the dismantling of an extensive Israeli espionage network throughout Lebanon in January, something that the Lebanese already know as a custom.

According to the information, the Lebanese ISF managed to disrupt some 17 spy networks in the service of Israel, several of them camouflaged as NGOs that employed unsuspecting Lebanese citizens who did not know that they had actually been recruited by the Mossad.

These types of activities (espionage and information gathering) often end in violent actions such as sabotage, bombings and assassinations that are later presented by the Western media as issues of internal political rivalry between Shiite Muslims and Christians. For Tel Aviv (because Jerusalem is not the capital), Lebanon continues to be one of its most coveted objectives, in part because of the obsession that the Zionists have with the resistance organization "Hezbollah", an enemy that has proven to be much more organized and lethal than any Arab state.

As we have been seeing, Israel, in addition to these interferences and collaborating with Saudi Arabia against Yemen, is operating with great interest in the Horn of Africa with a view to recruiting officials from the governments of that strategic region for commercial transit and little by little shortly, gain direct access over the Suez Canal in Egypt.

That is why this pact with the Arab monarchies is not surprising and much less does it mean that Israel gains legitimacy in its regional claims