Transcript [00:00] Hey everyone. If you've been following [00:02] this channel, you know we've been [00:04] tracking the United Arab Emirates for a [00:07] while now. You know, the OPEC exit, the [00:10] increasingly open praise of Israel from [00:14] Emirati officials, uh the signals coming [00:16] out of Abu Dhabi that this country has [00:18] made a decision about which side of [00:20] history it wants to be on. We've been [00:22] we've been talking about that about how [00:24] they're not quite in the same camp uh as [00:27] even the other Gulf states that we think [00:29] of as as peaceful. Um [00:33] well, in the last 48 hours, a wave of [00:37] headlines, well, 48 to 72 hours, the [00:39] last few days, there's been a wave of [00:41] headlines that a lot of people missed [00:43] that just that confirm everything we've [00:46] been saying and then some. So, what [00:47] we're going to do in this video is I'm [00:49] going to pull up five articles and show [00:51] you what we've been [00:53] that what we've been calling a pivot by [00:56] the UAE is is really is really a fact. [01:00] It's really happening and it's changing [01:02] things. When you see it all laid out [01:04] together, the picture of where the UAE [01:05] is headed and what it means for the [01:07] entire Middle East becomes very clear. [01:09] So, that's what this video is about. So, [01:11] let's pull up the first piece. [01:14] Um, let's go ahead and make this bigger [01:15] for you. [01:18] Okay. So, UAE Air Force attacks oil [01:22] refinery on Iran's [01:26] Lavan Island. The United Emirates [01:29] secretly launched air strikes inside [01:31] Iran, including an attack on an oil [01:33] refinery on Iran's Lavan Island in the [01:36] Persian Gulf. The strike caused a major [01:38] fire and forced the refinery to suspend [01:40] operations for several months. [01:44] Okay. They were they they used western [01:46] made fighter jets and they were [01:49] retaliating for being attacked. [01:52] The UA Ministry of Foreign Affairs [01:54] declined [01:56] to directly comment on the strikes but [01:57] referred to its previous statements, [01:59] meaning their statements where they said [02:01] that they they retain the right to [02:03] respond along alongside military [02:06] actions. Pay attention to this. The UAE [02:08] restricted Iranian financial activities [02:11] in Dubai and introduced stricter visa [02:14] rules for Iranian citizens. [02:17] We talked about the remittances in an [02:19] earlier video that it's uh uh there are [02:23] many many Iranian citizens who live in [02:25] the UAE who send money back home. It [02:27] also supports the UN resolutions that [02:29] would allow the use of force to reopen [02:31] the strategically important straight of [02:33] Hormuz. meaning the UAE supported [02:35] resolutions [02:36] authorizing the use of force to open the [02:39] straight of Hormuz. [02:42] Separately, Sudan accu accused Ethiopia [02:45] and the UAE of aggression after an [02:48] investigation into a downed drone. [02:51] Okay, so what's happening here? [02:56] Let's So what's happening here? What are [02:58] we seeing? [03:01] So [03:04] let that sink in. The United Arab [03:05] Emirates is a country of roughly 10 [03:07] million people which until very recently [03:09] was running a careful diplomatic [03:12] balancing act between Iran and the West, [03:16] right? They were of course the most [03:18] pro-western of those of the Gulf states, [03:20] but they also did have very friendly [03:22] relations with Iran and a lot of [03:24] financial dealings with them. We'll get [03:26] to that in a bit. They secretly attacked [03:29] Iran. This is a massive story. Look, the [03:32] United States attacked Iran, right? [03:33] Israel attacked Iran. We expected that. [03:35] But the UAE, the UAE has been hosting [03:39] Iranian businessmen in Dubai for [03:41] decades. It a lot of the financial [03:43] dealings the it's been one of the it's [03:46] been the financial hub for Iran's [03:48] economy. And the UAE just bombed Iran [03:52] and they didn't make a big press [03:53] conference. They didn't announce it. [03:55] We're finding out only about it after [03:56] the fact. Their foreign ministry [03:58] declined to comment but pointed to past [04:00] statements saying they have the right to [04:02] to defend themselves. Okay, this is not [04:04] the language of a neutral country. This [04:07] is the language of a country that made a [04:08] decision. They they're not going to talk [04:09] about it in public, but they made a [04:11] decision. Now, we're going to we're [04:12] going to build story to story. So, now [04:15] let's uh take a look at those financial [04:18] entanglements. [04:19] So, this is a piece from the from the [04:22] Institute for National Security Studies [04:24] at Tel Aviv University. It's one of the [04:26] uh it's one of the establishment think [04:28] tanks in Israel. Dubai junction. Can the [04:31] UAE disconnect from Iran? Over the [04:33] years, Dubai has served as an important [04:36] hub in the economic interface between [04:38] Iran and the global economy [04:41] and at times as an indirect pipeline for [04:44] easing the impact of international [04:46] sanctions onto Iran. You understand? The [04:49] UAE helped Iran evade sanctions. Now, [04:52] why would they do that? That might sound [04:53] strange to you. Wait, why is the UAE [04:55] helping Iran evade sanctions? Whose side [04:57] is the UAE on? Well, [04:59] the UAE [05:02] the UAE did this because it preserved [05:04] their status as a major financial hub. [05:07] If the Iranian money flows through them, [05:09] then they they uh that means that [05:11] they're they're still this because if [05:13] they would refuse, then that money would [05:15] flow through someone else. So, they want [05:17] to retain their status as a major uh as [05:19] a major hub for the flow of money. But [05:22] also it's a way of kind of keeping the [05:24] Iranians in check by having some [05:25] leverage over them having you know that [05:27] so much of their money flows through [05:28] them and is is and is uh connected uh [05:32] you know to to you know to people in [05:34] their on their soil. This development [05:38] was not a mere byproduct of [05:39] globalization but part of a financial [05:41] economic structure based on the United [05:42] Arab Emirates role as an open regional [05:44] trade and services center. There you go. [05:47] Okay. I'm not going to read the whole [05:48] thing. Um, but so this point here, [05:52] this point here, this this connects [05:56] directly to what we were just saying. [05:59] This for decades, Dubai was the loophole [06:03] in Western sanctions. Okay, the Emirates [06:06] served as the as the workaround. I know [06:09] it sounds a little strange. Massive [06:12] amounts of money, trade, and business [06:14] flowed through Dubai on its way to [06:15] Tehran. This was not a secret. Everyone [06:18] knew it. So Iranian businessmen had [06:20] apartments in Dubai, for example. [06:21] Iranian money circulated through through [06:24] United Arab Emirat Emirates banks. Dubai [06:27] was in many ways Iran's economic [06:29] lifeline to the outside world. So when I [06:31] say that the UAE just bombed an Iranian [06:35] oil refinery, I need you to understand [06:37] the distance that the UAE has traveled. [06:39] Again, this isn't the US or Israel [06:41] bombing Iran who have, you know, Iran [06:45] chance death to American, death to [06:46] Israel. like we're talking about the UAE [06:48] who like very uh very involved [06:53] financial connections there, business [06:55] connections. [06:56] Okay, [06:59] so this is not a minor policy shift is [07:01] my point. This is a complete strategic [07:03] reversal and the question the that the [07:06] INSS in this paper is asking can the UAE [07:09] disconnect from Iran? I think the answer [07:11] is now becoming abundantly clear. So, [07:13] let's now take a look at the third [07:16] article I have for you here. The UAE [07:18] coordinated attacks on Iran with Israel [07:22] according to reports. This is from [07:23] today. Okay. The United Arab Emirates [07:26] has attacked Iran more than once since [07:28] the USIsraeli campaign against Thran [07:30] began in February. Bloomberg reports the [07:32] UAE carried out strikes before and after [07:35] the April 8th ceasefire. Before and [07:37] after the ceasefire, says the US outlet, [07:40] citing people familiar with the matter. [07:42] one of the strikes a response to the [07:44] April 5th Iran attack on the Emirati [07:46] Burge prochemical site. So the Iranians [07:49] on April 5th, a couple days before the [07:51] ceasefire, attacked an a United Arab [07:53] Emirates prochemical site and one of the [07:57] strikes by the UAE on Iran that is now [07:59] being revealed was coordinated with [08:01] Israel and it was an attack on an [08:04] Iranian prochemical site. According to [08:07] one source, the two cooperated on [08:09] Israel's attack on Iran's south pars [08:11] prochemical complex the next day. [08:13] Remember when Israel uh when Israel [08:15] bombed the the pars uh petrochemical [08:19] complex and and Trump sort of criticized [08:20] them, sort of yes, sort of no. Well, it [08:23] turns out that the UAE was involved in [08:26] that throughout the war. Cooperation [08:28] between the two countries included the [08:30] sharing of intelligence, detecting and [08:32] interception of Iranian missiles and [08:34] drones, and selecting Iranian targets, [08:37] said the sources. [08:40] And it says at the end that Israel sent [08:42] an Iron Dome battery and soldiers to [08:44] operate in the UAE. We'll get to that [08:46] soon. That had not yet been confir that [08:48] uh yeah, I'm sorry, that had just been [08:50] confirmed earlier in the day. We'll get [08:52] to that in a moment. But let me let me [08:54] just sum up what we see here. This is [08:56] key. [08:58] This is where it really gets interesting [08:59] because it's not just that the UAE [09:01] struck Iran independently. It's that [09:02] they were coordinating directly with [09:04] Israel. The Israeli Air Force was flying [09:06] missions inside Iran specifically to [09:09] protect the Gulf States from Iranian [09:11] short range missiles aimed at them. [09:13] Think about that. Israeli jets flying to [09:16] protect Arab Gulf states from Iranian [09:18] attack. [09:20] You know, I I've been saying for a long [09:22] time that the old paradigm, the one [09:25] where every Arab state opposes Israel [09:27] and the dividing line in the Middle East [09:28] is Arab versus Israel, the Arab-Israeli [09:32] conflict, that paradigm is dead. What [09:35] October 7th temporarily disrupted and [09:37] what Iran's aggression has now [09:38] accelerated [09:40] is the realignment is because [09:43] the realization that the direction Iran [09:45] wants to take things is untenable and [09:48] the realignment of the Middle East along [09:49] completely different lines. The real [09:52] dividing line now is not Arab Arab [09:56] versus Israel. It's it's it's [10:00] who is Iran targeting, right? And the [10:02] answer is everybody who wants peaceful [10:04] and prosperous engagement with the west [10:07] and and on the other side you have [10:09] everyone who wants to destroy it. And [10:10] there I include, [10:13] you know, [10:14] the Turks, the Qataris who, you know, [10:17] Muslim Brotherhood aligned. I mean, [10:19] that's and and they're the ones trying [10:20] to save the Iranian regime, [10:23] right? [10:25] So this UAE openness [10:28] about their relationship with Israel and [10:30] this military engagement together with [10:31] them, it's unbelievable. Think of what [10:33] this means historically. All right, [10:36] let's go to the next piece. So the next [10:38] piece here is [10:41] I just mentioned this before. In first [10:42] official confirmation, US envoys say [10:44] Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE. [10:48] Attending Israeli Independence Day event [10:49] at mission at the mission in New York. [10:51] Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz confirms [10:53] air defense system was used to defend [10:55] against Iranian missiles. [10:58] That's what he said there. We saw the [11:01] UAE make use of the Iron Dome provided [11:03] to it by Israel, Waltz said. And then we [11:06] have this quote from ambassador, US [11:08] ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabe. [11:10] Quote, "Israel just sent the UAE Iron [11:12] Dome batteries and personnel to help [11:14] them operate them." How come? Because [11:16] there's an extraordinary relationship [11:18] between the UAE and Israel based on the [11:20] Abraham Accords. Hakabi said at an event [11:22] in Tel Aviv, referring to the 2020 deal [11:25] that saw Israel established ties with [11:26] the UAE. [11:29] And so, yes, so this has now been [11:30] officially confirmed. [11:33] Now, think of what this means. Think of [11:35] what this means now. [11:40] Think of what this means. [11:43] Here's Waltz saying that they were used [11:45] to shoot them down, etc. And and Huckabe [11:48] saying that this is because of the [11:50] Abraham Accords. [11:52] I love this because look at what Huckabe [11:55] just did. He didn't just confirm that [11:56] the military transfer of the equipment [11:58] of the Iron Dome happened, right? He [12:01] explained that it's because of the [12:02] Abraham Accords. that this is exactly [12:04] what the Abraham Accords were always [12:06] supposed to be. Not just a piece of [12:07] paper, not just a photo op on the White [12:09] House lawn, but a real security and [12:11] strategic partnership, a re the [12:13] beginning of a of a new vision for the [12:15] Middle East, a new vision for the Middle [12:18] East that moves past all the [12:20] all the stuff that holds the Middle East [12:22] back, right? Iran hit the UAE with over [12:25] 20. Think about this. Iran hit the UAE [12:27] with over 2,800 missiles and drones [12:29] during this war. more. It's It's I I [12:32] believe it's double what they fired at [12:34] Israel or more [12:36] more than they fired at anyone else. And [12:38] who showed up to help them? Israel. The [12:40] Israelis sent their own Iron Dome, one [12:42] of the most prized defense systems in [12:44] the world, and their own personnel to [12:46] operate it to defend an Arab Gulf state. [12:51] The fact that this all seems normal to [12:53] us is unbelievable. And here's the [12:55] bottom line. The UAE's leaders can go [12:58] home and say to their people, "You see [13:00] what the Abraham Accords gets us? We got [13:02] defended by Israel." That's a very [13:05] powerful argument to advance [13:09] uh world view, which is really what [13:12] we're fighting for here. If there's [13:13] going to be a path forward for the [13:14] Middle East, this is massive. Okay, last [13:16] one, last segment, last uh last story, [13:20] the last last headline here. This is [13:21] really interesting. This is also from [13:24] today. Saudi Arabia UAE [13:28] launched direct strikes on Iran during [13:30] conflict with Israel and the US report. [13:33] While Riad reportedly conducts secret [13:36] tit fortat aerial raids, Abu Dhabi [13:38] coordinated once with Israel to strike [13:40] Iran's largest prochemical plant at [13:42] Aseluya. [13:43] New reports are emerging indicating [13:45] Saudi Arabia and the United Arab [13:47] Emirates both launched direct military [13:49] strikes against Iran, signaling a [13:50] historic shift in the Gulf defense [13:52] strategies. According to reports from [13:54] Reuters, Saudi Arabia conducted numerous [13:57] unpublicized air strikes on Iranian soil [13:59] in late March. Saudi Arabia, [14:01] Western and Iranian officials described [14:03] these as tit fortat operations carried [14:06] out by the Saudi Air Force in [14:07] retaliation for attacks with within the [14:10] kingdom. These strikes represent the [14:12] first time Saudi Arabia is known to have [14:14] directly attacked Iran. [14:18] The shift towards active combat is [14:20] mirrored by the UAE. And then it brings [14:21] up the the Bloomberg report we mentioned [14:23] before and etc. That's it. Okay. [14:28] So now let's [14:31] let's talk about what we just saw here. [14:36] Um [14:42] what's in this article? There's two [14:44] bombshells in this article. Two. The [14:47] first is the Saudi story. Okay. Saudi [14:50] Arabia, which has been playing its usual [14:52] game of hedging, pivoting towards Qatar [14:54] and Turkey one day and keeping their [14:56] distance from Israel and and then on the [14:59] next day they're in the they're moving [15:01] back towards America. Look, Saudi Arabia [15:03] quietly conducted air strikes on Iran. [15:06] This is the first time in history that [15:07] Saudi Arabia directly attacked Iran. [15:09] They're not announcing it. They're not [15:10] taking credit, but they did it. Now, [15:13] I've said many times on this channel [15:14] that the Saudis are complicated, that [15:16] they play both sides. But even the [15:18] Saudis, when Iran starts raining [15:20] missiles down on the Arabian Peninsula, [15:22] they have their limits and apparently [15:24] they hit it. But the UAE story is even [15:26] more specific because I want you to [15:28] notice something. Iran struck the UAE's [15:30] Buruge prochemical plant. And the UAE [15:33] responded by coordinating with Israel to [15:36] strike Iran's Asaluya petrochemical [15:38] facility, which is Iran's largest [15:40] prochemical plant. Target for target, [15:43] facility for facility. [15:45] In other words, the UAE is not in the [15:47] scared America bail us out camp. That is [15:50] they they were doing joint UAEs military [15:54] strikes and they're also allowing this [15:56] information out. [15:59] Say that out loud. A joint UAE, United [16:02] Arab Emirates Israel military strike. [16:04] Five years ago, the UAE and Israel [16:07] didn't even have official relations yet. [16:11] Four years ago, they signed the Abraham [16:12] Accords. [16:14] Well, no, it's not four years ago. It's [16:16] No, it's about five years ago. They [16:18] Right. What is it? Five years ago they [16:19] signed the Abraham Accords. [16:22] Abra and then [16:26] and then I'm sorry, I don't I think I'm [16:29] losing I'm losing track of time. Either [16:30] way, however many years ago was they [16:32] signed the Abraham Accords. Now they're [16:33] conducting joint military operations [16:35] with Israel. Think about that. Think of [16:37] what a a a change we're seeing [16:41] executing a strategy together. Arab [16:43] country and Israel. This is the [16:45] trajectory I've been pointing out for a [16:48] while when we talk about the UAE. And [16:50] here's the thing about Iran's strategy. [16:52] They thought that if they hit the Gulf [16:54] States, meaning when Iran started firing [16:56] at all the Gulf States right at the [16:58] beginning of the war, what were they [16:59] thinking? Why were they doing that? They [17:01] thought that if they hit the Gulf States [17:02] hard enough, they would drive a wedge [17:04] between them and the Americans and they [17:06] would beg the Americans to back down to [17:09] to stop the war. [17:12] Right? Show them the cost of aligning [17:14] with the West. Punish them. That's what [17:16] Iran was trying to do. Scare them into [17:18] submission. But here's what actually [17:19] happened. Iran fired 2,800 missiles and [17:22] drones at the UAE. And the UAE responded [17:24] by secretly joining the war, [17:26] coordinating with Israel, accepting [17:28] Israeli Iron Dome batteries, [17:31] striking back target for target, and [17:34] voting in the UN for resolutions [17:36] authorizing force to reopen the Straight [17:38] of Hormuz. Okay. Iran's strategy [17:40] completely backfired. Instead of driving [17:42] the Gulf States away from Israel and [17:44] America, it pushed them closer, much [17:47] closer. [17:49] Okay, now let me zoom out. Well, let me [17:52] pull this down now. I just want to talk [17:54] to you. Let me, you know, before I [17:57] before I finish, please make sure you're [17:59] subscribed to this channel, that you're [18:00] subscribed to Israel 365 News channel, [18:03] and go into the link of this of this [18:06] video, the link in the description of [18:07] this video, where there is a link to [18:10] sign up for our newsletter, so you don't [18:11] miss anything. You won't miss any [18:13] videos. You won't miss any um on the [18:16] Israel 365 news channel. you won't miss [18:18] all the activity that we're doing at [18:19] Israel 365 Action and and sign up for [18:22] the Israel 365 news daily newsletters. [18:25] You'll just get headlines from Israel [18:27] that mainstream media is not showing [18:29] you. All right, so let me zoom out and [18:31] tell you what I think all of this means. [18:34] Here's the big picture. For decades, the [18:38] story of the Middle East was [18:42] was was that we had these we had a lot [18:44] of these jihadists, these radicals. [18:48] Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and all of [18:50] its various [18:52] offspring, [18:54] ISIS, al-Qaeda, [18:56] Hamas, whatever, all of them [19:00] kamas andbah, right? This is who was [19:03] dictating the pace of the action as it [19:06] were. And the moderate Arab states, the [19:08] ones that just wanted to develop their [19:10] economies [19:12] and you know build a future, you know, a [19:14] prosperous future for themselves, they [19:16] were constantly on the defensive. They [19:18] were always afraid of being labeled as [19:19] traitors to the Arab or Islamic cause if [19:22] they sided too much with the West, but [19:24] they just wanted peaceful economic [19:25] engagement with the West. They were [19:27] afraid of Iran. They were afraid of [19:29] internal extremists. So they were [19:31] constantly hedging all all these [19:33] relationships like that Emirati Iranian [19:35] financial relationship I was describing [19:37] before. Always keeping their heads down, [19:39] paying lip service to the Palestinian [19:41] cause and and and and doing enough [19:44] cooperation with Iran to keep them in [19:46] check. And they avoided making any real [19:48] moves. Then October 7th shook everything [19:51] up. But the Iran war has shattered it [19:55] because here's what the UAE now here's [19:58] what the UAE has now demonstrated to the [20:01] Arab world. You can coordinate with [20:03] Israel. You can fight back against [20:06] another Muslim state. You can use [20:08] Israeli technology to protect yourself. [20:10] You can secretly join a military [20:12] campaign against Iran. And you can come [20:14] out on the other side having protected [20:16] your people and your economy. Like the [20:18] old taboss are gone. [20:21] And I'll tell you something else. Iran [20:24] issued a warning to the UAE just a [20:27] couple days ago. A member of the Iranian [20:30] Parliament's National Security Committee [20:31] said, and I'm quoting here, "Iran still [20:33] has unfinished business with the UAE." [20:36] He accused the UAE of coordinating with [20:38] Israel to drag Trump back into the war. [20:41] Now, Iran issuing threats like this, [20:44] does that strengthen the case for the [20:45] UAE backing down, or does it strengthen [20:48] the case for the UAE deepening its [20:50] security relationship with Israel and [20:52] America? [20:54] I mean, the answer's the answer's pretty [20:55] clear. [20:58] Look, the Abraham Accords were always [21:00] meant to be about more than trade. Now, [21:03] I was cynical about them because other [21:06] peace agreements that Israel's made, [21:07] Egypt, Jordan, there's all these uh [21:10] lofty idealistic uh aspirations built [21:14] into them that never materialize and [21:16] always just becomes, you know, just kind [21:19] of some security cooperation, some some [21:22] trade, [21:24] uh but not really even at the businessto [21:26] business level. [21:29] And but the Abraham Accords are turning [21:31] out to be something different. There's [21:32] more to them than trade. They were about [21:34] building a security architecture for a [21:36] new Middle East. One where the moderate [21:38] pro-Western states have have each [21:41] other's backs. And what we're witnessing [21:43] right now in real time is that is that [21:45] architecture is being stress tested and [21:48] it's holding the this UAE Israel [21:51] relationship is a huge huge story. One [21:55] final thought. Iran targeted the UAE [21:58] more than any other country in this war. [22:00] More than Israel, more than the United [22:01] States. I mentioned that before. Iran [22:04] poured more firepower into trying to [22:06] destroy Dubai's economy, its airports, [22:10] its property market, its sense of [22:11] security, than into anything else, [22:13] including attacking Israel. [22:16] Little Satan. [22:18] They thought, "Hit them in the [22:19] pocketbook and they'll fold." That's [22:21] what they thought of the Amiradis. And [22:22] the Emirates did not fold. They fought [22:25] back [22:27] and that's the story of the Middle East [22:28] right now. So that's what I wanted to [22:30] share with you in this video. I hope you [22:32] found it interesting. Please, please [22:35] share this video. Tell people what we're [22:37] doing on this channel and uh I want to [22:40] thank all of you for helping grow the [22:42] channel so quickly. It's been really [22:43] something and uh it really gives me a [22:45] lot of encouragement. So God bless. [22:46] Please drop a comment. Love to hear what [22:48] you have to say. I read a lot of the [22:50] comments as read as I read as many as I [22:51] can. So thank you all for all the [22:53] commenters. Thank you very much.
