In September 2020 Trump hosted united Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain foreign ministers at the White House where they signed knew accord of normalization also known as the Abraham accord .
In a press release it was reported on international media that Netanyahu the president of Israel has agreed to delay the annexation plan of west bank. UAE and Bahrain has got some thing positive to report to coverup their meeting of normalization Abraham accord. Most of the thinkers view it as a positive approach to solve the regional disputes over the table. But Muslim countries view on this matter was different.
The countries like UAE and Bahrain are seen in the foreground and used as pawns by Saudi Arabia so that the story has multi layered faces hidden from the public. The hidden story is all about the secret meeting of Muhammad Bin Salman and Netanyahu.
The middle is maybe about to form a new strategic design. Israel and Saudi Arabia had security concerns with Iran. The imperial interest of US, Britain and France and the isolation of turkey and Iran in the region and the struggle over the resources and power politics with in the region could be reason.
This whole is enough to understand the hidden story behind the middle east New strategic design. It seems that neo imperial powers are in control of their interest. Let’s first talk about that who these Middle Eastern countries turned from hard stance of Palestine to recognition and normalization Abraham accord.
A drone attack on 14th September 2019 on Saudi Arabia’s oil processing units in the country’s eastern part rise tensions with in the region. The Houthi movement in Yemen claimed responsibility of attack, tying it to events surrounding the Saudi Arabian intervention in the Yemeni Civil War and stating that they used drones in the attack launched from Yemen.
Saudi Arabian officials said that many more drones and cruise missiles were used for the attack and launched from the north and east, and that they were of Iranian manufacture. The United States and Saudi Arabia have stated that Iran supported and provided all sort of logistics for the attack while France, Germany, and the United Kingdom jointly stated Iran bears responsibility for it. Iran has denied any involvement.
The situation has further complicated the Persian Gulf crisis. It was the time that Saudi Arabia started thinking about it’s security in future . It was considered in the favor of Saudi Arabia to adopt the policy of enemy of an enemy is my friend .
Saudi Arabia decided to form diplomatic relations with Israel to counter Iran, a common enemy in the region.
In doing so it was not easy because since the formation of Israel, Saudi Arabia had always been on the opposite side because of Palestinian issue. Technically the issue has to be put in multiple faced layers for which UAE and Bahrain both has been used. The secret meeting between Muhammad Bin Salman and Netanyahu was to form informal relations with each other .
The informal diplomatic relations are also in the favor of Israel. Saudi Arabia for security purposes needs hardware of the weapon purchased from United States so Israel can also sort out this problem because Israel also have the same weapons. So like wise in future the relationship of US and Saudi are not expected to be as much smooth as they were previously. The new strategic design also includes the control of interest of neo imperial states.
The US has diplomatic relations with all countries in the Middle East excluding Iran, whose 1979 revolution brought to power a staunchly anti American regime. US influence in the Middle East has lessened in post cold war years. The priorities of the US government with in the Middle East region are entirely based on resolving the Arab Israeli conflict and limiting the spread of weapons of mass destruction among regional States.
For these interest US is actively supporting the new strategic design in middle east. In the formation of this new strategic design Iran has shown aggression and warned UAE and Bahrain that they would be responsible for the consequences resulting for their normalization of relations with Israel. Rouhani said Israel is committing more and more crimes in Palestine day by day.
The majority of the regional countries and their people are Muslims but their rulers neither understand religion nor help to the nation of Palestine, to their brothers who speaks their language and are a part of them.
Iran president asked his counterpart of turkey Recap Tayyep Erdogan that turkey and Iran must take a unified stance against the recent normalization deal. Both countries Iran and turkey have common say on most of the issues like Palestine cause and unification of Muslim ummah.
So both countries can have a unified stance against this new strategic design which is supposed to put middle on a new road.