Emirates Leaks reveals details of a memorandum of media normalization between the UAE and Israel
ِA new media agreement was announced between the UAE and Israel today. The memorandum of understanding signed today aims at strengthening the coalition and promoting normalization between the two sides.
Private sources revealed to “Emirates Leaks” that the signed memorandum includes not hosting figures opposed to normalization and focusing on a plan to impose relations with Israel and market them in the Arab Gulf region.
The sources pointed out that the memorandum includes not broadcasting news of Israeli violations and crimes against Palestinians in the Emirati media, and highlighting the Israeli narrative in exchange for blocking the Palestinian narrative and what is related to the Israeli occupation and its daily practices.
The same sources stated that the memorandum also includes giving a vast space for Israeli speakers through the media institutions of the Abu Dhabi Media Group and promoting the beautification of the image of Israel.
Israel-based i24 News and Abu Dhabi Media Group announced that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to “develop content” and “provide reciprocal news coverage” for the staff of the two media organizations.
The memorandum of understanding between i24News, which broadcasts in Arabic, English and French, and Abu Dhabi Media Group, a public service media company that provides services to Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Sports Channels and Abu Dhabi Radio Network, allows for “exchange of coverage in the news, current issues, reports and content production” with an emphasis on language Arabic.
The founder and CEO of i24News, which was launched in 2013, Frank Melloul, affirmed that the partnership represents “a step that will allow the expansion of our activities as it is a pioneering partnership in the Middle East, the region whose events we cover extensively.”
“This partnership embodies the many opportunities that the Abraham Agreements gave us,” he added, a term used to refer to agreements to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain.
Melloul expressed his satisfaction with this “historic” partnership and the service it includes for media marketing of Israel’s external image, with Emirati support and involvement.
For his part, Acting General Director of Abu Dhabi Media Group, Abdul Rahim Al-Bateh, claimed that the media partnership with “i24news” contributes to “developing productive capabilities to provide distinct and targeted media content.”
The Abu Dhabi Media Group was established in the year 1969, and today its work is focused on digital content and it has various platforms through television, radio, newspapers and magazines.
It is considered one of the subsidiaries of the “Holding” and it is one of the largest holding companies in the Emirates and owns a diversified portfolio of large institutions operating in major sectors within the non-oil economy in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
In mid-September, the UAE signed two agreements to normalize relations with the Jewish state, in a move that the Palestinians described as a “betrayal” and a violation of the Arab consensus that made resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a trap for peace with Israel.
The agreement was subsequently translated through direct flights and an increase in the number of Israeli startups working in artificial intelligence, financial technology and agriculture in the UAE.
And last week, Emirati singer Walid Al Jassim visited Israel and arrived in occupied Jerusalem, where he took memorial photos at Al-Buraq Wall, wearing his country’s flag.
