Emirati security officer urges Arab Gulf to further strengthen ties with Israel

The Commander-in-Chief of the Dubai police in the United Arab Emirates urged Arab Gulf nations in a series of X posts on Tuesday to further strengthen their relations with Israel and to have no hope in the region’s fellow Arab nations beyond the Gulf peninsula. “To the people of the Arab Gulf, strengthen cooperation with Israel. My advice is that the states of the region are no good,” Dhahi Khalfan Tamim wrote, implicitly praising his country’s alliance with Israel and criticizing Arab states outside of the Gulf area. Tamim’s posts came during the regional war that began in late February when the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, leading to the latter’s retaliation, including through attacks on the […]