Even the United Arab Emirates, which has had the strongest ties to Israel of any Arab state through the Abraham Accords, is becoming irritated by Israel’s behavior. Last week, the U.A.E. cancelled Israeli participation at the Dubai Airshow set to take place in November, reported Middle East Eye. And the week before Israel struck Qatar, the U.A.E. warned that Israel risked a “red line” if it annexed the occupied West Bank.
Hussein Ibish, a senior scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, told MEE that the U.A.E. remained committed to its strategic calculus of the Abraham Accords, including one of its main foundations: deepening economic and technological cooperation. But he said Israel’s destabilizing actions are starting to alarm some.
