>The author then can't avoid but take a dig at Israel and Zionism - her point/connection is a bit hard to understand but also feels warped. The Emirates being part of the Abraham accords was one of the greatest signs of the possibility of cross-religious existence and cooperation in the region
It's a sign of little more than that the United States will throw its weight around on behalf of the Israeli regime, no matter how racist it is, even when doing so is diametrically opposed to the interests of the United States (which these days is almost always the case).
In the case of the Abraham accords, Trump's son in law traded normalization of ties with the regime for an (empty as it turns out) promise to the UAE that further colonial annexation of the West Bank was off the table. The accords led to a dramatic uptick (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/11/un-experts-a...) in colonialist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank in the run up to Oct 7th.
It's a sign of little more than that the United States will throw its weight around on behalf of the Israeli regime, no matter how racist it is, even when doing so is diametrically opposed to the interests of the United States (which these days is almost always the case).
In the case of the Abraham accords, Trump's son in law traded normalization of ties with the regime for an (empty as it turns out) promise to the UAE that further colonial annexation of the West Bank was off the table. The accords led to a dramatic uptick (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/11/un-experts-a...) in colonialist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank in the run up to Oct 7th.