Gulf‘s growing ties with Israel threatening Iran.

Oil sheikhs are asking for trouble ?

By Latheef Farook

Gulf oil sheikhs in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain are rolling red carpet to receive Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, while Israel continues to desecrate Masjid Al Aqsa, the third most important holy place in Islam, attack and indiscriminately brutalizing and killing Palestinians.

What the sheikhs fail to understand is that their unholy honeymoon with Israel supported by US-Europe as against their giant neighbor Iran is bound to have detrimental impact on the entire Gulf for generations to come.

One should not forget that after setting up the state of Israel in Palestine by means of violence, crime, lies and deception and blackmail, Israel was working towards its dream of achieving Greater Israel stretching from Mediterranean to Gulf which also includes Iraq, Syria and part of Egypt.

AS part of this conspiracy Israel, in collaboration with United States. Britain, and France managed to destroy three important oil rich developed countries such as Iraq, Syria and Libya and turn the Middle East into a killing field.

Destroying Iraq has been more than 2500 year old Jewish dream ever since they were driven out from Babylon-the birth place of Prophet Ibrahim. In the rest of the Middle East over the years Israel, together with US and Europe, managed to install in power secular tyrants who pose no threat.

The only country which threatens Israel is Iran. So that need to be destroyed. This is the reason why Israel fiercely opposes any US-European peace moves with Iran and talks about its nuclear program

Israel is hell bent on destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities and it’s military. To do this Israel needs the support of oil rich Gulf States, in close proximity to Iran, ruled by tribal sheiks who are law unto themselves.

Israel managed to use United States to bring pressure on Gulf sheikhs who had investedtheir countries’ stolen wealth in the US and Europe to establish ties with Israel. With the old generation of rulers disappearing and the second generation, brought up in the comforts of palaces, openly establish diplomatic ties with Israel.

They abandoned Islam, Muslims, Masjid al Aqsa, Palestinians and Israel’s daily atrocities on Palestinians. Their hostility towards Islam and Muslims are quite open as shown in their unstinted opposition to Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt and their participation in all US European wars against Muslim countries such as Iraq.

Two Gulf countries which were quite open in their hob knobbing with Israel despite fierce opposition from its oppressed people are United Arab Emirates, especially Abu Dhabi, and Bahrain. Saudi Arabia has been having very close ties with Israel for long and had been taking part in all US-European wars against Muslim countries.

It was under such circumstanced Israel is hoping to establish a “triangle of Israeli-Indian-Emirati relations.”

On September 15, 2020, the UAE became the first Gulf nation to establish formal relations with Israel, and the third Arab country to do so after Egypt and Jordan in 1979 and 1994, respectively.

Israel president Isaac Herzog made his first ever visit to the UAE last month where he discussed security relations with the de facto ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

For example the UAE was attacked twice last month with drones and missiles, claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Israel has responded by offering security and intelligence support to the UAE against further drone attacks.
“We completely support your security requirements … We are here together to find ways and means to bring full security to people who seek peace in our region,” Herzog said during the meeting.

Sheikh Mohammed said Israel and the UAE share a “common view of the threats to regional stability and peace, particularly those posed by militias and terrorist forces”

Meanwhile Bahrain also normalized ties with Israelin return for the Israeli interest in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea to face off Iranian threats.

This is where the problem is!
Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, visited Bahrain early this month under a 2020 US-sponsored deal based in part on shared worries about Iran, Reuter’s reports.Bennett met with Bahraini Prime Minister, Salman bin Hamid Al-Khalifa.
The danger is that in the event of a military strikes on Iran, which is likely at some stage, Israel will use both UAE and Bahrain as launching pads to attack Iran and may cause death and destruction as it did in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
What the oil sheikhs fail to understand is that Israel and its US-European supporters will leave the Gulf the day oil wells run dry leaving Sheikhs to face Iran which is unlikely to forget the Saudi led Gulf role in putting forward Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to invade Iran and triggered the eight year Gulf which killed more than a million Iraqis and Iranians.

The bitterness, hatred and suspicion between Iran and the Gulf sheikhs remain too deep. Friendly ties with Iran is likely to ensure peace in the region though oil sheikhs turned to US led west which has undertaken a war against Islam and Muslims worldwide.

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