The Emirati-Saudi project and Gulf concerns

From the point of view of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, the Sudanese normalization with the Israeli occupation entity is a new victory. In fact, this was not surprising. As soon as the new – old government of Khartoum, which crystallized in the summer of last year after the overthrow of the Omar al-Bashir regime, failed to create balanced relations with the three conflicting axes in the region and its bias towards the duo From the Gulf, the Sudanese results that are announced in succession today have become a foregone conclusion. .

Since the formation of the UAE-Arabia Coordination Council, headed by the crown princes of the two countries, Mohammed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman, in May 2016, it has pledged to defeat the Iranian and Turkish axes, support the Arab tyranny and declare a public alliance with the Zionists, hoping to act as police in the region. Under the American “leadership”. Since then, Saudi visits and meetings with the Zionists have intensified, so former intelligence chief Turki Al-Faisal met former Hebrew national security adviser Yaakov Amidror (May 2016) and General of Anwar Ashki division visited Israel (July 2016) and repeated the prayer beads.
The formation of the Coordination Council and the copious agreements signed by the two parties reflect the great momentum in the relationship between the two men, for whom the internal and international situation gave them almost absolute powers. Ibn Zayd became a major player in the decision since the departure of the founder of the Emirates, Zayed Al Nahyan, and then became an almost absolute ruler in the last ten years, when illness prevented his half brother, Khalifa, from could fulfill his duties as head of state. Among the victories that Bin Zayed and Bin Salman are proud of is the overthrow of the strong security man and friend of American intelligence, Mohammed bin Nayef, from the Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia, following the invasion of the “white man” Donald Trump. , to Najd in May 2017, which also sparked the crisis with Qatar. Bin Zayed does not appear to be in a rush to declare himself president. He still holds the title of Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, although everyone at home and abroad sees and deals with him as the de facto president of the Emirates, and the prime minister and ruler of Dubai, Mohammed bin Rashid, is writing a loyalty poem to the ruler of Abu Dhabi, the emirate that finances most of the budget. The federation of the seven emirates. Perhaps the message bin Zayed tells bin Salman: Why the rush? You are a ruler, even if you don’t have the title of king.

The objectives of the Emirati-Saudi coordination do not bear signs of peace, development, freedoms and internal agreements.

Regionally, the most important victory, from the duo’s point of view, which came before Bin Salman’s arrival, was the breakdown of the Egyptian experience in 2013, which originally faced many challenges. Therefore, the consequences are expected to be grim for the Sudanese in the near future, in terms of clamping down on freedoms and promoting unilateralism, and this is the fate of any country that is under the rule of this duo. Kuwait, Qatar and Oman have distanced themselves from all Saudi options. As Qatar resorted to an alliance with Turkey and strengthened its relations with US institutions, Kuwait pursued a policy of axis distancing, an approach it has followed since it paid the price for its involvement in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1990s. 1980. Kuwait and Oman fear that the Emirati-Saudi coordination will target them, as well as Qatar, Iran, Turkey, and civil and political groups active in the region. The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia deny that their coordination is an alternative to the “Gulf Cooperation Council.” This is where another of the Gulf duo’s goals arises, which is to further marginalize the Cooperation Council, the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic World.
Bahrain, from the formation of the duo, the question arose: Where is Manama in it? We did not hear a public response from the United Arab Emirates, as for Saudi Arabia, it responded to Bahrain’s call and agreed in July 2019 to form a coordinating council headed by the foreign ministers of the two countries, against the wish of Bahrain, which hopes that the coordination will be led by the Crown Prince of the two kingdoms. A new event occurred on October 7, when the Saudi Council of Ministers announced its agreement to “negotiate with Bahrain to raise the level of representation of the Saudi-Bahrain Coordination Council that will be headed by the crown princes of the two countries.” It is believed that the visit of the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan, to Manama on the 21st of this month, was one of his objectives to prepare the “signing of the protocol amending the act of the establishment of the Council” , which will be headed by the inheriting princes of the two kingdoms.
The problem is that the objectives of the Emirati-Saudi coordination do not bear signs of peace, development, freedoms and internal agreements in the countries that follow this duo, nor understandings with the neighbors, which increases the causes of concern at the levels of the Gulf, Arab and regional, and pushes the tensions in the Gulf and the region to the maximum, especially with the crystallization of the fact that Israel has directly engaged Iran from the land of the Gulf.

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