Tag Archives: UAE
For the UAE and others, it’s business as usual with Israel
James Dorsey says "it’s business as usual" for the United Arab Emirates and Israel as Binyamin Netanyahu’s newly formed government implements hardline policies aimed at forcing Palestinians to give up on an independent state and accept Israeli rule. Read more [...]
Listen: Saudi and Gulf relations and influence in the Arab world
Dr James Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, analyses the relations between the Persian/Arab Gulf states and their influence on other Arab countries. He also explains the motives behind the United Arab Emirates’ normalisation of relations with Israel.
His syndicated column and other podcasts can be found at www.jamesmdorsey.net Read more [...]
Ignore at your peril: Palestine ranks high in Arab public opinion
James Dorsey explains that while domestic issues such as provision of jobs, education and health care, good governance and protection of personal rights are of primary concern to Arab citizens, opinion polls indicate that Palestinian rights remain at the top of citizens’ agendas. Read more [...]
How the Israel-UAE pact undermines international law
Lawrence Davidson says the United Arab Emirates’ "normalisation" of relations with Israel in effect provides a seal of approval for Israel’s illegal creeping annexation of Palestinian lands and gives a green light for other states to acquiesce in undermining International law. Read more [...]
How the UK government provides cover for Israel’s crimes
Stuart Littlewood highlights the gap between the UK government’s meaningless platitudes and mealy-mouthed declarations in relation to Palestinian rights on the one hand, and its actual deeds on the other, which serve to provide cover for Israeli crimes. Read more [...]
UAE recognition of Israel: Whither the Arab and the Muslim world?
James Dorsey says parochial interests and rivalry between the Arabian peninsula's rulers lie behind the United Arab Emirates’ decision to recognise Israel and Saudi Arabia’s turning its back on Jammu and Kashmir. Read more [...]
US set to create joint condominium with Turkey over Libya
Nureddin Sabir, Editor, Redress Read more [...]
Egypt’s peace initiative for Libya will not succeed before the Turks and their stooges are roundly defeated
Nureddin Sabir, Editor, Redress Read more [...]
Saudi religious diplomacy targets Jerusalem
James Dorsey analyses Saudi-UAE efforts to seize control of Israeli-occupied Jerusalem’s Islamic sites from Jordan, which include overtures to Israel and coopting Palestinian collaborators, foremost disgraced former security official Muhammad Dahlan. Read more [...]
Trading Jerusalem for war on Iran
James Dorsey examines how Saudi and UAE complicity in President Trump’s decision to recognise occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital so that the Saudis could pursue their sectarian conflict with Iran could turn the Arab region into a firestorm – again. Read more [...]
