Gulf States Discover Israeli 'Partner' Is Actually a Butcher
The New Arab reports Gulf states are increasingly seeing Israel as a 'growing threat' rather than a 'potential partner.' This shift, they argue, is fueled by Gaza. Conveniently, they omit that the 'potential partnership' was always built on shared oil interests and a convenient, yet always temporary, antipathy towards Iran, papering over the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians that has been
Israel's consistent foreign policy playbook since 1948. One might recall Netanyahu insisting all the way back in 2002, and repeatedly thereafter, that Iran was days from a bomb. The Gulf bought the hype, now they're buying body bags. We’re expected to believe that Gulf rulers, who routinely suppress their own populations, were suddenly blindsided by Israeli aggression. Was the Nakba a
'misunderstanding'? Sabra and Shatila a 'technical glitch'? The Abraham Accords were never about peace; they were about realpolitik, security dividends, and ignoring the inconvenient fact that one party's 'security' means another's ethnic cleansing. The tragedy isn't that Israel became a threat, it's that it took so much verifiable bloodshed for the Gulf—and much of the Western media—to finally
acknowledge what was always plainly visible: its foundational violence was never just an internal matter.