UAE pledges to support Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli Knesset elections
Confidential documents revealed the UAE’s pledge to support its ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ahead of the Israeli Knesset elections scheduled for early next month.
Emirates Leaks’ documents showed secret correspondence between Abu Dhabi and Netanyahu’s office ten days ago.
In documents, the Emirati regime offered Netanyahu financial and political support to enhance his chances in the Knesset elections.
Abu Dhabi confirmed that it is ready to support Netanyahu’s needs, including new normalization understandings to strengthen his political position.
The correspondence also showed that the UAE urges Netanyahu to support the Joint Arab List and improve his image in front of the Arab public.
An Emirati diplomatic source said that Abu Dhabi fears Netanyahu’s loss of the government or his failure to form a new government and its impact on the course of bilateral normalization relations.
Despite his urgent need for more than one reason or motive to travel to the UAE before the elections, Netanyahu was forced to announce the trip’s postponement, which was scheduled for mid-February.
And that after postponing the visit twice before.
Although Netanyahu’s office attributed the reasons for the visit to the outbreak of Corona, and the Israelis’ regard the UAE as a fatal focus for the outbreak of the virus.
However, other reasons seem to be the reason for this successive delay, which may lead to the flight’s eventual cancellation.
As the circles surrounding Netanyahu were before announcing the visit’s postponement for the third time, they said that Netanyahu decided to reduce the trip to the Emirates to three hours.
This has nothing to do with the virus that affects health but instead has to do with the political virus, which seems to have quickly infected the emergency normalization agreements.
The normalization agreements that were prepared and signed in a hurry are considered a legacy of Donald Trump. His late administration sought to try to prevent his fall in the presidential elections.
Likewise, through it, the Netanyahu government sought a last-ditch investment for a naive administration that it played as it wished for the four years it spent in power.
Netanyahu was seeking, through that round, to achieve two basic things.
The first has to do with the upcoming Israeli elections that will take place next month, in which he faces again, a crowd of opponents, most of whom are only seeking to topple him.
Under the slogan “No to Netanyahu,” the opponents in the centre, left and right rallied, including Gideon Sa’ar, a dissident of his party from Likud, and “Right,” led by the far-right Naftali Bennett.
Although the right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties are achieving a clear advantage over the centre and the left, Netanyahu’s ability to specifically form a coalition government under his leadership is not possible according to opinion polls.
This time, Trump will not be “in the back” of Netanyahu to push Netanyahu to remain prime minister.
The second reason is a final seemingly desperate attempt to pressure the Biden administration to backtrack on returning to the nuclear deal with Iran.
The normalization agreements seem to be blown by the wind of political change resulting from their godfather’s departure from the White House.
And because these agreements were more like a baby bastard, they were linked to a price paid from the American political pocket, and they looked like political-commercial deals.
