The UAE and Israel have established a fund to jointly acquire and develop new weapons systems together, the May 18 Middle East Eye (MEE) reports in an article, “UAE and Israel Established Fund for Joint Defense Acquisition, Sources Say.”
Since the September 15, 2020 signing of the Abraham Accord Declaration by Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, devised by the City of London financier oligarchy and supported by the first Donald Trump Presidency , the UAE and Israel have formed an ever closer interlocked financial-strategic-defense alliance. The Abraham Accords, which are the basis of Trump’s Middle East ‘Peace Board,’ were set up to protect Israel’s security interests, build a speculative, resort-driven “Rivera in Gaza,” and steer Gazan Palestinians into a restricted area, with little human existence or freedom.
In turn, the Israeli-UAE alliance is a pivotal part of the larger British-U.S.-Israeli-UAE alliance, which is the motivating force and one of the most consequential ones that drove the invasion of Iran on February 28 of this year, and also the attack on Iran by this same alliance for 12 days in June 2025.
The Middle East Eye, which interviewed one current and one former U.S. official who were briefed on the matter, reported on the formation of the Israeli-UAE joint weapons fund, “The agreement was cemented when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the UAE during the US-Israeli war on Iran, the [current] official said. Netanyahu’s office issued an official statement regarding the visit.” This would have been on March 26, the date Netanyahu claims he met with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. The UAE government denies that such a meeting took place.
“The UAE-Israel relationship is the best it’s ever been. This is the closest cooperation Israel has ever had with an Arab country,” Yoel Guzansky of the Tel-Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies, told MEE. He added that a joint fund to develop weapons systems was a logical next step.
