The British news site Middle East Eye said that the Emirati-Israeli alliance is not targeting Iran as it is alleged, but rather Turkey, whose influence in the region "poses a threat to the rulers of the Gulf."

The site’s editor-in-chief, David Hearst, confirms in an article that analysts were confused about the US peace plan in the Middle East, known in the media as the "Deal of the Century," which US President Donald Trump unveiled months before the UAE announced that it was about to recognize Israel in a breach of the status quo that remained. They will not normalize until after the Palestinians establish their state.

Hearst wondered about the significance behind Trump's efforts to conclude a deal boycotted by Palestinian leaders and rejected by Arab countries, and it will not succeed.

And he added, "Abu Dhabi's announcement of the normalization of its relations with Israel did not provide an answer to that question."

Although Bahrain, Serbia and Kosovo announced that they would follow the example of the UAE, large or densely populated countries rejected such a step, as countries such as Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Oman or Kuwait did not join it.

If the Palestinians are not the desired target of this deal, then who is the target?

The British journalist asks before answering that the goal of Jared Kushner, the chief advisor to President Trump and his son-in-law, is "Jewish and national in character, which is to establish the Greater Israel as a permanent reality on the ground."

But against whom does this Emirati-Israeli alliance seek to defend itself?

Israel has been telling Arab diplomats for some time that it no longer considers Iran a military threat. Even the head of the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) Yossi Cohen told Arab officials that Iran "can be contained."

Trump was about to engage in a direct military confrontation with Iran, but he turned a blind eye to that, according to Middle East Eye.

Threat Iran

And when Iran responded to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, in Baghdad last January, by launching a barrage of missiles at US forces in Iraq, Trump did not find that the striking force that he himself had gathered in the Gulf was resolved.

Hearst returns to ask again, "If Iran was not the target of the emerging Emirati-Israeli alliance, then who would it be?"

However, the answer to it came this time - according to the editor of the British site - in the form of a series of statements this week issued in the wake of a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo.

The target country or "real enemy" was none other than Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

"The new foreign invaders threatening the Arab world are not the Persians or the Russians, of course, but the Turks," he added.

The writer goes on to say that the entire eastern Mediterranean countries are very angry with Turkey, under the pretext that it wants to restore Ottoman rule.

It is ironic that the Palestinian delegation that presided over the Arab League meeting had prepared a draft of an "angry" statement condemning the Emirati-Israeli agreement and considering it a "betrayal."

However, the university council dropped the statement and decided to establish a permanent sub-committee to monitor "Turkish aggression."

The statements of the Arab League did not go unnoticed in Ankara, as the Middle East Eye website quoted a high-ranking Turkish government source as saying that the UAE has been carrying out the mission of isolating Turkey at the practical level.

And the source added that the Emiratis have been participating in every act that would establish an alliance against Turkey.

The paradox is also that there is another sub-committee of the Arab League against normalization with Israel that still exists and adheres to the principle of land for peace included in the Arab Peace Initiative launched by Saudi Arabia in 2002. But this committee was ignored, as Israel is no longer the enemy of the Arab League but Turkey.

Efforts to isolate Turkey from its regional surroundings in the eastern Mediterranean are not limited to the United States, Israel, the Emirates and the Arab League, as there are other external parties.

According to David Hearst, the French military role in supporting the rebel Libyan Major General Khalifa Haftar in his attempt to control the capital, Tripoli, was documented just as he used Emirati aircraft and Russian pirates to this end.

During his last two visits to Beirut, French President Emmanuel Macron spread his rhetorical wings - according to Hearst's expression - by declaring that if France did not play its role, the Iranians, Turks and Saudis would interfere in Lebanon's internal affairs motivated by their economic and geopolitical interests.

Macron has been declaring that his disagreement is not with the Turkish people, but with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but this tactic - in Hirst's opinion - has been tried before and has not met with success.

Whatever the issue of the criticism directed by many of Erdogan's opponents at home, there are also those who support him as a national leader for foreign policy, especially in the eastern Mediterranean.

Among his supporters is the former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who has been striving to undermine the conservative Islamist base supporting Erdogan more than any other Turkish politician.

Hearst says that Erdogan has made Turkey an independent country with a strong army (Reuters)

Turkey and Erdogan

The author of the article believes that Erdogan has made Turkey an independent country with an army capable of confronting Russian forces in Syria and Libya, and at the same time engaging in negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Turkey has an economy the size of its Saudi counterpart, and its army is self-sufficient.

It began manufacturing unmanned aerial vehicles with high technology after the United States and Israel refused to supply them.

Turkish companies have also proven that they have the technology to enable them to develop the newly discovered natural gas fields in the Black Sea, and to supply the local market with technological products.

In his article, Hirst pointed out that in its 2020 report, the Israeli Military Intelligence included Turkey among the list of organizations and countries that threaten the national security of Israel, although the report excluded the outbreak of a military confrontation between the two countries.

The editor-in-chief of the British website commented on the Israeli intelligence report, saying that "the authoritarian and bloody Emirati and Saudi regimes do not have such desires."

He continued by saying, "The UAE and Saudi Arabia are afraid that Turkey will stand by their people," referring to the struggle between Ankara and Riyadh over the leadership of the Sunni world, since "there is a time when Saudi Arabia claimed leadership of the Sunni Islamic world," and it will not be the case again if Riyadh normalizes its relations with Israel in the end. According to the writer.