In this regard, the episode (8/16/2020) of the "Beyond the News" program asked about the significance of the UAE's retreat so quickly from the attempt to market its normalization with Israel as a price for agreeing to stop annexing parts of the West Bank?

For his part, writer and political analyst Saleh Al-Naami attributed the UAE's retraction of its novel to two main reasons: The first is that Israel torpedoed the UAE's justifications for concluding the peace agreement and denied its intention to stop the annexation policy.

The second reason is that the UAE is trying to hide dangerous files related to this agreement, especially those related to the fact that the agreement allows Israel to make the UAE an advanced base to confront Iran.

And he considered that the rulers of the Emirates, through this agreement, are risking the fate of the state, by setting its capabilities to serve the strategic goals of the Zionist entity without the latter bearing any consequences, calling on the UAE not to fall into the dangers of the Israeli trap and turn into a shield for it in the region.

Al-Naami also indicated that all that concerns Israel is its own interest only, as it deals with the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to it, and therefore it is ready to employ all countries and groups to face this challenge. He wondered if the UAE was really able to pay the consequences of this situation.

The Iranian position
For his part, Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Shanqeeti, a professor of political ethics at Hamad bin Khalifa University, said that if Iran feels that the agreement threatens its national security and that Israel is within a few miles of its borders on the land of the Emirates, the equation may change. Expecting coordination with the Houthis to inflict painful strikes on the UAE.

He added sarcastically that the Israelis do not respect their Emirati friends, because they did not persevere with their lie for a few hours and refute it.

Al-Shanqeeti also considered that the issue of national sovereignty and Arab dignity is used in the wrong way, as it is used when colluding with the Israelis and committing sins and political punishments that are rejected by the peoples of these countries first before they are rejected by the rest of the Arabs.

He went on to say that the UAE knows that there are no guarantees and evidence to support its narrative, but rather relied on what it called understandings and a level of trust, stressing that there is no room for placing confidence in Israel and manipulating the Palestinian file, as well as stopping trading in the Iranian file.

On the other hand, political analyst Ahmed Al-Anani said that this initiative will freeze the annexation of Palestinian lands to the Israeli side, believing that the UAE will play a role in bringing peace to the region through this agreement.

It is noteworthy that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in his latest statements regarding the normalization agreement with the UAE, that this agreement differs from previous agreements, and that it comes from a standpoint of strength and the logic of peace in exchange for peace and not withdrawal from the land.