MBZ's existence is a gift to Israel's existence

The UAE's agreement with Israel was one of the most debated topics over the past week. With the agreement, after Egypt and Jordan, the UAE became the 3rd country to establish formal diplomatic relations with Israel. Of course, the timing of its having entered this network of relations as the 3rd country gains a separate importance for the meaning of the event.

This agreement comes at a time when Israel's annexation plans in the West Bank have angered the entire Islamic world and even significant segments of the Western world, and when the provocation of the deal of the century, in which an attempt is made to have Jerusalem accepted as Israel's capital, continues in all its recklessness. While Israel, with these aggressive policies of its that have grown thoroughly unruly, should be meeting with a harsh reaction from the whole world, the fact that it is being virtually rewarded by an Arab country means that all the aggressive policies it will implement from now on are being encouraged.

Although the announcement of the agreement mentioned that Israel's annexation of certain areas of the West Bank, which it had been carrying out for some time, was suspended, the nature of this emerged immediately, as expected. It is as if such a statement was arranged, for one time only, to counter the first outrage that might be caused by the UAE appearing to have given Israel everything and received nothing. And it was in any case denied soon afterward. Israel did not make even such a gesture to the UAE, which is so willing to serve it voluntarily. It did not see any need to save even the appearances of honor and dignity that were being dragged on the ground for it.

As expected, the agreement was seen as a complete treason agreement toward Palestine, and indeed toward the entire Islamic world. But it must be said that this agreement has no meaning other than making the hidden manifest and formalizing a relationship that already existed. The UAE has long been acting like Israel's Trojan horse in the Islamic world anyway.

All the policies it implements in the region serve Israel directly or indirectly. The truth is that there is no data at hand as to which column of its own profit ledger the policies the UAE is currently implementing in the region could be written under. The UAE does nothing but sow seeds of discord everywhere in the Islamic world. Suffocating the will of peoples in the region, disrupting the stability of countries, and making the Islamic world flounder in perpetual chaos and instability through the fires of discord it has lit: this is the summary of the UAE's policies.

What logic, what purpose could there be among all this, and in what respect could all this serve the UAE? I do not think there is an international relations theory or explanation that could answer this question. In fact, all these questions are ones whose answer can be found precisely when we see what kind of state the UAE has been turned into in the hands of Crown Prince Muhammed bin Zayed (MBZ).

What MBZ has been doing across the entire Middle East, from Yemen to Egypt, from Sudan to Qatar, from Libya to Tunisia, from Iraq to Palestine and Syria, from Morocco to Turkey, serves, for himself, no purpose other than to swell his own criminal file. Yet when all these deeds are considered at some point from the standpoint of Israel's interests in the Middle East, all the missing pieces of the picture are completed and the picture becomes clear. MBZ's existence has become a gift to Israel's existence.

It was Israel that perceived the greatest threat from the Arab Spring process. Indeed, had the Arab Spring gone on its course throughout the Islamic world, Israel's business would not have been easy at all with countries like Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, each of which was surrendering its own people. It could neither have dared to implement today's annexation plans nor found an environment in which to declare Jerusalem its capital. Moreover, since the Arab Spring process would have brought with it the democratization of Arab countries, serious quality of governance and development would inevitably have followed. Having strong, governable, reconciled-with-their-peoples, accountable administrations fill its surroundings is the last thing Israel would want. There is no possibility of sustaining the Camp David order with democratic governments. It is that plain and clear.

For that reason the course of events was a serious danger and had to be stopped. But Israel had no possibility of doing the job of stopping it with its own means and instruments. This is exactly the job that MBZ did voluntarily on behalf of Israel and for Israel.

There is no other explanation for MBZ's fear of democracy. What he tries to demonize in the Islamic world as the Ikhwan or political Islam is nothing other than plain democracy. His own style of politics and mentality is far more dangerous, far more intolerant, far more fascist and despotic than the most fundamentalist, most radical, most bigoted religiosity. The war crimes he has committed in Yemen, and the terrorist organizations he has supported in Somalia, Syria and Libya in order to serve his coup, thoroughly bar him from uttering the word "terror" about any structure whatsoever.

MBZ is behind every kind of terrorist movement in the Islamic world, and he is trying to whitewash all of this with the services he renders to Israel's Zionist policies. But how far will he whitewash? Sooner or later he will be called to account for all this violence, terror, coups and discord he has caused in the Islamic world.

MBZ's agreement with Israel is nothing but the exposure of a relationship that already existed.

In one respect, it is good that he made it manifest. The world will no longer be subjected to the hypocrisy he has displayed until now by doing and saying the exact opposite. In any case, this agreement will not legitimize Israel's occupying presence, nor will it ensure its greater acceptance in the Islamic world even by a little.

And in any case this heartfelt friendship with Israel will bring MBZ no benefit, and will be the cause of his ruin as well.