No to the “strategy” of betrayal and normalization



[ad_1]

Occupied Palestine, November 18, 2020 – The Palestinian National Committee for the Boycott of Israel condemns the organization of the Emirates Policy Center, the Seventh Abu Dhabi Strategic Forum 2020, in association with the Israel National Security Research Institute (INSS), and with the participation of the Executive Director of the Institute and a retired Major General of the Occupation Army. Amos Yadlin, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alon Auschwitz, as well as the adviser to the President of the United States on the Abrahamic Accords, Brian Hook.

Just a few weeks after the signing of the treacherous agreement between the tyrannical UAE regime and the Israeli colonial regime, public cooperation between the two regimes began to grow at all economic, commercial, security, military, academic levels. cultural and others. Of course, Trump’s defeat in the US election did not get in the way of the agreement, and work is still being done to deepen it and implement its provisions in full swing.
The “Abu Dhabi Strategic Forum” was launched on November 9, with opening remarks from the director of the Emirates Policy Center, Ibtisam Al Ketbi, and the UAE Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash. His sessions ran virtually over a three-day period, with three main directions: First; The American Elections: What’s Next? And in second place; The United Arab Emirates-Israel Peace Treaty: the new Middle East, and third: the Covid-19 pandemic: a transformative tool for collective security.
In order to “begin the hard work” to provide a basis for a “warm peace”, the Emirates Policy Center had concluded a tripartite strategic partnership agreement with the Zionist National Security Research Institute (INSS) and the American Center for Security. Research and Public Policy (Atlantic Council) last October. . This tripartite association aims to provide policy analysis and recommendations on “common security concerns and threats, mutual trade and investment opportunities, as well as means of cooperation in the field of“ cyber ”security, healthcare, response to epidemics, tourism, religious and cultural affairs, food security and renewable energy. Consequently, this kind of joint cooperation is formed; Any research and development project with academic institutions, in breach of the standards of academic normalization and boycott.
As for the Israel National Security Research Institute, it is a research center specializing in security studies affiliated with “Tel Aviv University”, which was established after the 1973 war, and is among the academic institutions and investigators deeply complicit in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people and the brother Lebanese people. This center led the development of the military strategy that became known as the “suburb doctrine”, referring to the destruction of the southern suburbs of Beirut during the 2006 aggression, which calls for the deliberate military attack of civilians and civilian infrastructure through the use of disproportionate force as a means of deterring resistance. The United Nations and human rights organizations have more than once documented how Israel commits war crimes within the field application of this criminal doctrine in Beirut and Gaza.
In addition to the Israel National Security Research Institute and the American Center for Public Policy and Research (Atlantic Council), directors and researchers from various research and policy-making centers around the world participated in the forum, in particular; Center for New American Security (Washington), Middle East Institute (Washington), Brookings Institution (Washington), Observer Research Foundation (New Delhi), RAND Corporation (California), Higher Institute for International and Development Studies (Geneva), and The Royal Elcano (Madrid), the Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore), as well as the Rafic Hariri Center for the Middle East (affiliated with the Atlantic Council).
Under the title “The Gulf: Recovery of accounts”, the retired Israeli Major General “Amos Yadlin” made his intervention in one of the sessions of the second day of the conference, together with the president of the board of directors of the Bahrain Center of Strategic, International and Energy Studies, Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, and former professor of The National Defense College in Abu Dhabi, Dr. Al-Bader Al-Shatri. While the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Political Affairs in the United Arab Emirates, Khalifa Shaheen Al-Marar, participated in a workshop entitled “The Abrahamic Accords: Middle East Between Political Rationality and Illusions”, along with the Ambassador and Advisor to the President of the United States on the “Abraham Accords”, “Brian Hook” In addition to the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alon Auschwitz.
In addition to all of the above, what raises the most reproaches is the participation of the Director of the Center for Strategic Studies of the University of Jordan, Zaid Clinics, in the last session of the third day entitled “Corona: Understanding Geopolitical Transitions”. It is true that Ayyadat did not participate in the session with Israelis, but this participation is part of a conference of normalization and betrayal with distinction that violates the norms of normalization and academic boycott as a whole. There is no justification for falling into such a standardization trap, in which the name of the University of Jordan is included in suspicious forum titles, and its name and academic position are allowed to be used to promote standardization. While the boycott movement (BDS) was unable to reach the clinics for lack of time to dissuade him from participating, regardless of his intentions, it is unlikely that his involvement was in error.
With our knowledge of the honorable historical positions taken by Jordanian universities and their student councils towards the normalization and defense of Arab rights in general and Palestinian rights in particular, the University of Jordan is obliged to clarify its position and repudiate this. participation. Zayd Al-Clinics is also required to publicly apologize for this involvement and to commit not to re-undertake normalization in response to the will of students and academics in Jordan and the Arab world, who have taken clear public positions on the treacherous Emirati-Israeli agreement and its manifestations.
There was also another Arab participation in the forum, in which the Lebanese businessman, owner of “Nasser Al-Saeedi & Co.” and former Minister of Economy, Nasser Al-Saeedi, made an intervention in the second session of the third day, which was titled “Economy after the Crown: The International System”, for In addition to being a professor at the Higher Institute of International and Development Studies from Geneva.
In light of the above, and in line with the popular Arab position rejecting the treason agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, the Palestinian National Boycott Committee salutes all those who opposed this agreement in the Arab world, especially to the brother people of the Emirates, and renews its call to boycott all activities and activities under the auspices of the Emirati regime, and to boycott any Emirati, Arab or international company or entity that is in collusion in the implementation of the Agreement of Shame between the United Arab Emirates and the Israeli regime.
The committee also emphasizes the need to boycott the Emirates Policy Center, due to their blatant association with the Israel National Security Research Institute (INSS) and the sensitive role they play in crafting ways to implement the terms of the agreement between the two systems, as well as boycotting all Israeli universities and academic institutes for their decades-long involvement in crimes. The rights of Israel to the Arab peoples, in particular the people of Palestine.

Subscribe to «News» on YouTube here

[ad_2]