Foreign Policy said that the normalization treaty - which the UAE concluded with Israel and surprised the world last Thursday - was the result of nearly 20 years of secret relations between the two parties, and that its beginning dates back to the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.
The American magazine - in a report by journalist Jonothan Verziger under the title "How the events of September 11 and the Corona epidemic pushed the UAE and Israel to rapprochement" - stated that the accused Saudi kidnappers in those events used Dubai (the UAE) as a main point of transferring money, and that the Emiratis rushed to contact Israel to develop Cybersecurity software that will help Abu Dhabi salvage and rebuild its credibility as a major financial center in the Middle East.
She also said that the Emirate of Dubai has worked to strengthen its position as a global trade center linked to greater relations with Israeli companies and banks, and that the transactions between the two parties flourished and turned into an extraordinary wide relationship.
According to the report, commercial relations between the UAE and Israel have expanded over the past two decades to include computer monitoring systems, airport security, shipping, water desalination, agricultural technology, real estate and tourism, and the most prominent areas of cooperation in recent months have been the UAE's interest in obtaining Israeli research to find a vaccine against the Coronavirus.
Foreign Policy pointed out that many factors played a role in concluding the Emirati normalization agreement with Israel, including the common threat that Iran poses to the two parties, the aspirations of the Emiratis to a greater regional role, the Palestinian issue, and Washington's pressure. Meanwhile, the ground for the peace agreement was formed as a result of commercial and financial relations and the dominance of Israeli technology used for civilian purposes, and in the field of defense and intelligence.