En viktig roll i detta spelar Fatah-dissidenten Mohammed Dahlan, som av många uppfattas som en realistisk efterträdare till den åldrade och sjuke Abbas. Dahlan är idag säkerhetsrådgivare till UAE:s härskare och förespråkar en väst- och Israelvänlig politik, som givetvis hatas av de gamla Sovjetutbildade terrorister som idag styr pseudostaten "Palestina". Men i den förvirrade arabiska politiken är det tyvärr sällan duglighet eller ens realism som styr....
En viktig orsak till Dahlans populäritet i många s k moderata arabstater är naturligtvis hans vilja att aktivt bekämpa det destruktiva inflytandet från Iran och de Muslimska Brödraskapsstyrda Qatar och Turkiet. De regimerna är i dagsläget de största hindren för fred och avspänning i regionen.
Så länge Saudiarabien och dess allierade undviker att öppet samarbeta med Israel lär vi dock inte få se något verkligt genombrott i den s k fredsprocessen i Mellanöstern.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is
gradually obtaining support in its endeavours to normalise relations
with Israel, with economic and security interests alleged to be behind
the rapprochement.
The UAE has been in the process of normalising its relations with Israel
for several years, and Abu Dhabi’s allies are now following their
sponsor.The Southern Transitional Council (STC), the Yemeni secessionist
movement sponsored by the UAE, has recently shown a willingness to establish relations with Israel,
with which it is currently in secret talks. The same has been said
for Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army, who is seeking new
support after successive setbacks against Fayez Al-Sarraj’s
Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).
The communication between Haftar and Tel-Aviv has been ongoing for two years, as Intelligence Online has
previously reported. Palestinians close to Mohammed Dahlan, the chief
security adviser to Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed
Al-Nahyan, are also committed to normalising relations with Israel.These
understandings come as Abu Dhabi has been publicising its ties with Israel in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Highly unusually, planes from the Emirati airline Etihad’s fleet landed on the tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport
on 20 May and 9 June, loaded with humanitarian aid for the West Bank.
However the Palestinian Authority (PA) refused the medical aid, claiming
it had not been party to coordination on the delivery, which was
conducted exclusively with Israel.Behind this display, Abu Dhabi is
looking to take advantage of the tacit recognition of Israel to secure
new cybersecurity contracts, just as the agreement on 20 June was aimed
at facilitating joint research in the context of the current epidemic.
Previous
contracts concluded in 2019 are understood to have totalled more than
$4 billion. The normalisation also has more conventional security
motivations, with Israel and the UAE hoping to jointly form a bloc
against Iran.
