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Is Knesset approval the last stage of a deal with the UAE?
It is the last in all articles of the agreement except for confidentiality.
When is the approval of confidential clauses?
A secret session of the Special Committee on Security is held in the Knesset.
After lengthy deliberations and weeks since the UAE signed the normalization agreement with the Israeli occupation state, the agreement took a legal turn within Israel, after the Knesset approved it by a majority.
The approval of the agreement by the Knesset is the last stage for normalization with the United Arab Emirates to adopt an official form in “Israel”, in addition to the approval of the secret clauses, since the conclusion of any economic, military agreement or security must go through the Israeli parliament.
The Knesset is the highest legislative and political authority of “Israel”, as it takes on legislative tasks, approves governments and supervises their work. It is made up of 120 members and plays an important role in Israeli political life.
During the historic session, the secret provisions of the agreement signed in the middle of last month with the United Arab Emirates were not presented to the Knesset, but will instead be presented in a secret session after final approval.
And 80 members of the Israeli Knesset accepted the peace deal with the United Arab Emirates, while another 13, who are members of the joint list of the Arab party in the Knesset, opposed.
The list of Arab parties involved in the Knesset attributed its failure to vote on the deal with the Emirates to being one of the main arms deals Israel had carried out in recent years.
The list also confirmed in a statement that the absence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the peace agreement is one of the reasons for its rejection by the Joint List, in addition to being part of the US peace plan rejected by the Palestinians.
The list emphasizes that the principle of true peace is based on ending the occupation and establishing the Palestinian state in accordance with the text of the Arab initiative, including the complete withdrawal to the 1967 borders.
Previous agreements
The peace agreement between “Israel” and the third Emirates approved by the Knesset in its entirety since the declaration of the establishment of “Israel”, following the agreements signed with Jordan and Egypt, where the agreement with Abu Dhabi was approved after 9 hours continuous.
The Camp David agreement signed by the occupation with Egypt in September 1978 differed from the approval obtained by the United Arab Emirates, as the Knesset approval came one year after signing over a two-day period.
Likewise, the “Wadi Araba” agreement signed between Jordan and “Israel” in October 1994, where its provisions were discussed and approved in one day and a long session.
During the approval of the agreement by the Knesset, the Occupation Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed that what was signed with the United Arab Emirates reflects “a change in the attitude of the Arab countries towards Israel.”
Netanyahu took advantage of the agreement in the Knesset to improve his position in the media, when he said: “Israel, under my leadership, is not obliged to withdraw and that is why the Arab and Muslim countries want to get closer to us.”
Regarding the refusal of the Joint Arab List to vote on the agreement with the Emirates, Netanyahu considered that he was “following the example of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority.”
Secret clauses
Israeli affairs specialist Ismail Musa claims that majority Knesset approval of the agreement with the UAE will give the occupying government the legal right to conclude any agreement, be it economic, military or technological, with Abu Dhabi. .
The approval of the agreement by the Knesset, according to Moussa’s statement to Al Khaleej Online, will allow any Israeli businessman, or also any citizen, to travel to the United Arab Emirates for the purposes of tourism, study or even residence.
According to Moussa, the approval of normalization by the Knesset with the Emirates is the final stage of official deliberations within the institutions of the Israeli occupation authorities, as only the secret provisions of the agreement remain to be discussed.
After the Knesset approved the deal, Moussa said that “relations with the UAE have become binding on the government and others within the institutions, and everyone should work formally with them.”
Regarding the secret terms of the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, the specialist in Israeli affairs explains that it is the last step to finally demarcate the agreement, since these provisions are presented to the Knesset Security Committee, not all members.
The Knesset includes 12 standing committees for: “Finance, economic affairs, foreign and security affairs, internal and environmental affairs, the constitution, law and the judiciary, immigration and assimilation, knowledge and culture, labor and welfare, control matters. state, promotion of the condition of women, and scientific and technological research and development “.
And he continues saying: “This committee is the one that is authorized to approve or reject the secret clauses, but most of the time it will agree with everything mentioned in the agreement after discussing it and then formally and legally approving it.”
Regarding his expectations on what are the secret clauses of the agreement between the Emirates and Israel, Moussa clarifies that the most prominent of those terms are those related to Iran and the possibility that the occupying army intervenes to protect the United Arab Emirates in case of any Iranian military action against Abu Dhabi.
The Iranian government, for its part, had considered that its Emirati counterpart had made strategic mistakes by agreeing to normalize relations with “Israel”, stressing that the latter could not guarantee its security to guarantee the security of Abu Dhabi.
Following the signing of the agreement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said his country asks the United Arab Emirates to “correct the standardization error, because they cannot buy security from outside the region and must review this error”.
