DUBAI (Dispatches) – The UAE is collaborating with the Zionist regime to sabotage Persian Gulf reconciliation efforts, disturb relations between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and deepen the rift with Bahrain, Al-Quds Al-Arabi has reported.
Citing information gleaned from leaked documents and reports, the newspaper exposed the UAE-Zionist efforts being coordinated to undermine the reconciliation witnessed at the summit hosted by Saudi Arabia at al-Ula early last year.
The Emirates Leaks website, which describes itself as a “media platform specialized in spreading the scandals of the Emirates and its crimes,” published a report on what it said was a secret joint unit established by the UAE and the Zionist regime to undermine Persian Gulf reconciliation. The unit is also intended to provoke differences between the Persian Gulf States as agreed by the UAE’s National Security Advisor Tahnoun Bin Zayed and senior officials in the occupied territories. There is, it is said, a common desire to tamper in Persian Gulf affairs.
According to the report, the UAE and the regime believe that rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Qatar harms their interests, and delays the pace of public normalization with Riyadh. Hence the effort to sow the seeds of discord between Doha and Riyadh.
The agreed plan, according to the leaks, includes media campaigns to incite public opinion against Qatar and provoke Saudi Arabia by criticizing Doha’s positions. Social media is being used to serve that purpose. Recent posts on Zionist and Emirati social media accounts, for example, have included edited recordings of earlier events and statements aimed at reigniting Saudi-Qatari controversies. Such footage includes a recording published by Israeli journalist Eddie Cohen of an old clip of Prince Bandar bin Sultan attacking Qatar and describing it as a marginal country. Emirati websites and platforms promoted this immediately.
The 41st Persian Gulf Summit in al-Ula last year saw the leaders and heads of delegations of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council countries signing a statement to turn the page on the Persian Gulf dispute and emphasize respect for the principles of good neighborliness.