The UAE and Its Escalating Chronic Zionism

When will the United Arab Emirates actually become… Arab?

This is no longer a rhetorical question asked only by its grieving brothers, who have watched in pain as the UAE has plunged deeper into suspicious and dangerous regional projects over the past decade. Today, this question echoes even in Arab capitals that, until just a few months ago, stood shoulder to shoulder with Abu Dhabi in the so-called “moderate axis,” which evolved into the bloc of normalizers and a vital toolkit in Washington’s hands. From Syria to Yemen to Sudan, the UAE was part of every American-led file in the region.

Since the flood began in Gaza, the American-Israeli killing machine went into full gear, many have been left stunned by the brazen audacity of the UAE’s rhetoric surrounding the Zionist genocide. From its symmetrical condemnations of both Hamas and “Israel,” to its insistence on maintaining all doors wide open for a strategic alliance with the occupying entity, including hosting provocative visits that offend every free conscience on Earth — this tiny state continues to escalate its vulgar Zionization. And now, with Trump’s looming return to the White House, this process accelerates even further.

The pinnacle of the UAE’s Zionist shift regarding Gaza became glaringly obvious during the ceasefire phase, through two particularly outrageous positions:

First, Abu Dhabi rushed to endorse Trump’s so-called plan to forcibly displace Gaza’s population into neighboring countries. From Washington, the UAE declared its explicit support for this plan when its ambassador to the US, Yousef Al Otaiba, stated just days ago — during the World Government Summit in Dubai — that his country sees “no alternative” to Trump’s plan for Gaza. “It’s difficult,” Al Otaiba admitted,  insisting that there are no other options.

Second, Abu Dhabi brazenly broke ranks with the already hesitant official Arab stance by openly rejecting a still-developing Arab reconstruction plan for Gaza, which is being studied in Cairo, Riyadh, and Amman. Anwar Gargash, senior adviser to the UAE president, declared at the Investopia 2025 conference in Abu Dhabi that the proposed reconstruction plan could not move forward. Gargash stated that investment in Gaza depends on achieving political stability, saying: “Gaza needs a reconstruction plan — a massive one — but this plan cannot be truly implemented without a clear path toward a two-state solution. Major investments require political stability stemming from a clear roadmap.”

These two stances — one welcoming Trump’s displacement plan and the other preemptively undermining a potential Arab-led reconstruction plan — expose the UAE’s full alignment with the most destructive Zionist options for the region. This blatant positioning only strengthens accusations that Abu Dhabi has become entirely Zionist in its orientation. Furthermore, this overt shift is set to trigger a dramatic reshuffling of alliances, reprioritization of files, and deepening internal fractures — not only within the normalization axis itself, but also among the silenced, oppressed Arab masses whose rage continues to simmer beneath the surface.

The critical question now is: Will the UAE’s chronic Zionism eventually expose the last remaining secrets of its total subservience to Israel? And even more importantly: at what point will those who have sold their souls for Emirati dirhams — those mercenaries serving its dangerous agendas — finally wake up to the catastrophic truth? What fate awaits them when they come face to face with the horrifying reality that they were dragged into wars based on hollow slogans, from the so-called “Guardians of the Republic” to Tareq Afash and the remnants of the treacherous, fallen leadership? These flimsy narratives will soon crumble entirely, revealing that these wars were nothing more than fronts for Zionist-Jewish goals all along.

This accelerating Arab race toward “Israel’s” embrace — bypassing even the usual American intermediaries — is being led by none other than this minuscule state, which now serves as a grotesque model of vulgarity and provocative shamelessness. It perfectly fits this era of breakneck developments that demand immediate and drastic decisions. In Trump’s world, there’s no time for diplomacy, gradualism, or backroom cooking — the reckless cowboy Trump has his orders straight from Tel Aviv: accelerate the Zionist project at all costs, especially after this project was shaken to its core by the al-Aqsa Flood operation and a massive global grassroots awakening that cracked its foundations and foreshadowed its imminent collapse.

At the heart of the terrifying Abraham Accords — a pact that spells death and destruction for all that is Arab — stands Abu Dhabi, not by coincidence but by deliberate Zionist design. For years, the Zionist project handpicked Abu Dhabi to play this dangerous role — not merely as a sponsor of normalization but as a military and intelligence hub, launching future offensives east toward the Islamic Republic of Iran and west and south toward the lands of the Two Holy Mosques, Oman, Yemen, the Arabian Sea, Bab al-Mandeb, and the Red Sea.

While it’s true that Saudi Arabia remains the Zionist project’s most strategic Arab ally, the Kingdom’s unique religious status imposes severe sensitivities. Speeding up Riyadh’s full embrace of normalization would entail a recklessness that could ignite catastrophic blowback. Therefore, the Israeli enemy has opted for a multi-pronged strategy to realize its post-America regional agenda.

Among all the Gulf oil states, none could offer the Zionist entity a more perfect platform than this tiny Emirati state — the ideal Zionist tool for executing these sinister paths. The Al Nahyan family’s agility in jumping between contradictory regional roles, both geographically and politically, is testament to this. In Syria, the UAE spent years inciting against the government, a few years before the fall of Bashar al-Assad seemed imminent, the UAE adopted a shifting, evasive, and inconsistent stance.

This Zionist maneuverability, something rarely seen in traditional Arab diplomacy, is enabled by three main factors: the UAE’s limitless wealth, its minuscule size, and the vast influence of global Jewish networks both regionally and internationally.

But will this frantic geographical expansion and political somersaulting continue indefinitely without sparking internal clashes within the normalization camp? Will the furious pace of strategic shocks and crises in the Arab world spawn new micro-states modeled after the Zionized Emirates? Or will the Emirati model itself — this temporary plastic Bedouin construct — melt and evaporate under the heat of escalating conflict?