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UAE Warns Israel’s West Bank Annexation Would Cross ‘Red Line’ and End Regional Integration Efforts
The UAE considers West Bank annexation a red line that could end its participation in the Abraham Accords, threatening prospects for Palestinian statehood and regional peace.
- The United Arab Emirates warned Israel that annexation in the occupied West Bank would constitute a 'red line' for Abu Dhabi, severely undermining the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalized UAE-Israeli relations.
- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for annexing swathes of the West Bank after Belgium announced it would recognize Palestine as a state.
- Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE foreign ministry's assistant minister for political affairs, stated that 'annexation in the West Bank would severely undermine the vision and spirit of Accords, end the pursuit of regional integration and would alter the widely shared consensus on...two states living side by side in peace, prosperity and security.
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Since Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the war between the Israeli army and the Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip and the expansion of settlement in the occupied West Bank have placed the Hebrew state in a delicate position vis-à-vis its regional neighbours. On Wednesday, September 3, the United Arab Emirates is threatening to break up its relations with Tel Aviv in case of annexation of the second.
Israeli annexation of West Bank could sink Abraham Accords, UAE warns
The United Arab Emirates warned Washington, D.C., that an Israeli annexation of the West Bank could tank the Abraham Accords, one of President Donald Trump’s most touted foreign policy accomplishments. The UAE was the first Arab signatory of the Abraham Accords, a U.S.-brokered effort to normalize relations between Israel and the Arab world. Abu Dhabi is also arguably the most enthusiastic Arab partner — it was the first country to condemn Hamas…
JERUSALEM. If Benjamin Netanyahu annexes parts of the West Bank, it will have devastating consequences for relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. That message has been secretly sent from Abu Dhabi to both Washington and Jerusalem in recent days.
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