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How the Gulf States Got in Bed With Israel and Forgot About the Palestinian Cause

Benjamin Netanyahu is building ties with anti-Iran Arab leaders from Riyadh to Doha and betting that a peace deal is no longer a necessary prerequisite for normalizing diplomatic ties.

By Dalia Hatuqa

Foreign Policy, March 28, 2019

 


Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev (C), Mohamed Bin Thaaloob al-Derai, President of UAE Wrestling Judo, and
Kickboxing Federation (L) and International Judo Federation President Marius Vizer (R) chat during the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam
Judo tournament in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi on October 27, 2018. (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)



The much-touted Warsaw summit in February accomplished very little. The United States tried to persuade its European allies to abandon the Iran nuclear deal and to push for further sanctions on Tehran, neither of which happened. The only excitement came from Israel and some Persian Gulf states which did not shy away from flaunting their open alliance against Iran.

Foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain sat alongside Benjamin Netanyahu at the grand opening dinner. It was supposed to be a closed meeting but Netanyahu leaked a video of the gathering anyway, where Bahrain’s top official was heard calling Iran the main obstacle to solving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The UAE’s foreign minister was also shown defending Israel’s “right” to bomb targets in Syria. The love fest was, as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence noted, “a new era.”

Then there was the handshake between Netanyahu and Oman’s foreign minister and a brief interaction with Yemen’s foreign minister, all of which have become part of the prime minister’s charm offensive ahead of the April 9 elections in Israel. Netanyahu’s promise to bring ever closer ties with Arab states has seen him make visits to places like Chad and Oman, as he grows more eager to show that a Palestinian state is no longer a prerequisite for formalizing ties with Muslim and Arab states in the region.

Netanyahu’s promise to bring ever closer ties with Arab states has seen him make visits to places like Chad and Oman, as he grows more eager to show that a Palestinian state is no longer a prerequisite for formalizing ties with Muslim and Arab states in the region.

Israel has long thought of itself as a democratic oasis battling numerous enemies in an unstable region. This trope was best encapsulated in the use of not-so-coded language by Ehud Barak, the former prime minister, when he famously likened Israel to a villa in the jungle.

But Netanyahu seems to have embraced some of these very same enemies, shoring up his base ahead of the elections by claiming that Israel is no longer the regional pariah it once was. He’s attempted to find common ground with these former foes through mutual disdain toward Iran and shared business interests, in the hope that those commonalities will outweigh the benefits of Arab solidarity with the Palestinians. The Saudis and other Gulf states, which at one point famously championed the Palestinian cause not only at home but also to their Western counterparts, have reversed course over time.

The new relationship between the Gulf and Israel is part of a larger shift that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to spearhead, whereby regional Sunni Arab states openly align themselves with Israel in opposition to Iran. The White House sees a watered-down Israeli-Palestinian peace deal as part of this process.

Before leaving for Chad on Jan. 20, Netanyahu called his visit, which marked the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries after they were severed in 1972, “part of the revolution that we are doing in the Arab and Islamic worlds; I promised you that this would happen. … There will be more countries,” he vowed. He has similarly been forthcoming in disclosing Israel’s not-so-secret ties with the “sons of Ishmael” all the while continuing to declare that not a single West Bank settler would be forced to leave on his watch.

In October 2018, Netanyahu visited Oman and met with its ruler, Sultan Qaboos, using it as one more opportunity to boost his argument that Israeli settlements, occupation, and siege of the Palestinians are no hindrance to forging ties with the Arab world. Netanyahu also recently boasted that Israeli passenger planes could fly over Oman and Sudan, (and an Israel-bound flight even flew over Saudi Arabia last March), racking up yet another win for his regional integration effort.

In October 2018, Netanyahu visited Oman and met with its ruler, Sultan Qaboos, using it as one more opportunity to boost his argument that Israeli settlements, occupation, and siege of the Palestinians are no hindrance to forging ties with the Arab world.
Last year, an Israeli delegation visited Bahrain for a conference organized by UNESCO (ironically, the same United Nations organization defunded and abandoned by the United States over alleged anti-Israel bias). There are no diplomatic relations with the Gulf kingdom, but like its neighbors who are concerned about Iran, Bahrain has inched closer to forging overt ties with Israel. In May 2018, its foreign minister tweeted about Israel’s right to defend itself after Iranian missiles were lobbed at targets in the occupied Golan Heights from Syria. In December 2017, an interfaith Bahraini delegation that did not include any government officials made headlines when it visited Jerusalem—just days after Trump announced his decision to recognize the holy city as Israel’s capital.

The UAE and Israel have had a working relationship for decades, spanning defense, technology and agriculture. But in October 2018, the UAE went a step further, allowing Israel’s national anthem to be played at a judo tournament in Abu Dhabi as a tearful Israeli sports minister presented a medal to Sagi Muki, who won gold at the competition. Saudi Arabia’s permissive attitude to informal relations is more recent. It began after the death of King Abdullah in 2015 and with the ascension of Mohammed bin Salman to his post of crown prince in 2017. Riyadh’s aspiration to reach a similar detente with Israel renders the Arab Peace Initiative it put forth almost two decades ago almost irrelevant.

 






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