Zionist War Machine Big Winner of Normalization

Date: 10 October 2022 - 22:03

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TEL AVIV (Dispatches) — When the United Arab Emirates was looking last year for ways to protect its high-profile World Expo from possible drone attacks, it secretly turned to a new friend: the occupying regime of Israel.
Faced with the possibility that Yemenis could launch attacks on the lucrative event, the Persian Gulf nation bought a small Israeli air-defense system designed to bring down hostile drones, according to former Zionist leaders and defense-industry officials. Those people said the Rafael Drone Dome air-defense system protected the Dubai Expo.
The deal is part of the expanding ties between Israel and like-minded Middle East countries. In the two years since breakthrough diplomatic agreements with the UAE, Bahrain and Morocco, the occupying regime of Israel has signed military deals with once-wary neighbors, welcoming high-profile Arab leaders to Al-Quds, and transforming Dubai into one of the top tourist destinations for Zionists.
Few have benefited more from the warming relations than the Zionist regime’s military contractors.
Israeli weapons companies have sealed more than $3 billion in deals with the three countries, the occupying regime’s war ministry said. The new growth market helped drive Israel’s global military sales to a record $11.3 billion last year, according to the ministry. Military sales to Persian Gulf countries hit 7% of total exports last year, the ministry said.
Zionist military contractors have signed deals to send advanced air defenses to the UAE and Bahrain, according to former Israeli officials and military contractors. They have sealed a deal with Morocco to build drone factories there, they said. They are in talks to sell the three nations everything from advanced radar technology to cybersecurity systems, they added.
In one of the most far-reaching deals so far, the occupying regime of Israel cleared the way earlier this year for the UAE to buy an advanced mobile air-defense system known as Spyder, which uses missiles to shoot down hostile drones, cruise missiles and other threats, according to people briefed on the deal. The sale, which was previously reported by Reuters, came amid Emirati frustrations with the allegedly limited U.S. support the UAE received after Houthi fighters in Yemen used long-range drones to attack the nation’s capital earlier this year.
“It’s a new playground,” said Stacy Dotan, the chief marketing officer and director of the board at the Avnon Group, a Zionist company that has sold drone defense systems to the UAE and Morocco.
The Abraham Accords, signed two years ago, marked the start of a new chapter in the occupying regime’s relations with some Arab countries. The accords accelerated the once-covert ties that Israel built for decades with countries that officially refused to recognize its creation in 1948.
Israeli security officials say they have had more than 150 meetings with counterparts in Bahrain, Morocco and the UAE since the accords were signed.
But the new cooperation has its limits. Zionist officials said there are still tight constrictions on what the occupying regime will sell to Persian Gulf states.

The focus now, they said, is on selling air defenses. The occupying regime approval to sell advanced offensive weapons is unlikely to come any time soon.

The Avnon Group was able to capitalize on the warming relations because the company had experience working with the UAE even before the accords, said Dotan.

“It’s not like a one-night stand,” she said. “You’re not looking to go in and sell everything all at once. You’re building up a relationship with your local partner. Once you’ve done a couple of small projects, they know they can trust you.”

For military-industry executives like Dotan, the work in the UAE is an extension of the secret work they did in the Persian Gulf before the Abraham Accords. Dotan said she was among a small group of Zionists who worked under the radar with Emirati officials before the accords were signed.

Bahrain, which has a large Shia population, has proved to be more difficult to navigate, she said.

On a trip to Bahrain to discuss business prospects, Dotan said Avnon’s founder, Tomer Avnon, got a call from Israeli security officials who told him that he needed to leave immediately because of a security alert.

Much of the defense cooperation between Israel and the Persian Gulf nations continues to be done in secret. Leaders in Tel Avivi, Abu Dhabi and Manama say they are trying to keep the security deals out of the public glare so as not to openly antagonize Iran.

The biggest players in the occupying regime’s military world are Israel Aerospace Industries, which has said that it is working with the UAE to develop a new air-defense system, and Rafael, which makes a variety of products, including Spyder and the Iron Dome missile system.

Morocco, which sealed a separate normalization deal with Israel in December 2020, has pursued its own path by signing a security agreement last year with the occupying regime that has paved the way for a number of military deals.

Like the UAE, Morocco bought Israel’s Skylock system. According to officials, Morocco has agreed to buy dozens of drones from the Zionist regime’s BlueBird Aerosystems Ltd.