The falsity of the UAE's justification for the alliance with Israel and the normalization between the two countries to freeze the plan to annex parts of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley to Israeli sovereignty was revealed when it signed 4 agreements in Abu Dhabi with settlement factories and companies, at a time when the boycott of settlement products is expanding around the world.

According to these agreements signed between the Settlements Council and the Emirati "FAM" company, Abu Dhabi will import products of settlement companies and factories worth one billion dollars per year, which is considered to strengthen the economy of the settlement project that opposes international law and conventions, and faces repercussions and financial losses as a result of the global campaign to boycott Israel due to Its settlement project in the Arab territories occupied in 1967.

With these agreements, the UAE strengthened commercial and economic relations with settler leaders and owners of companies and factories through close cooperation with the Regional Council for "Shomron" settlements in the Nablus region, which includes 30 settlements, and its president, Yossi Dagan, who boasted that Samaria products - which is the biblical name for areas in the West Bank - will be sold in quantities. Great in a Muslim country, knowing that Dagan calls for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over all of historical Palestine, and opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state on parts of the West Bank, even if it is a demilitarized state.

Dagan, accompanied by many Jewish businessmen and owners of some companies and factories in the settlements, stayed 4 days in Abu Dhabi to complete the agreements, in conjunction with the participation of a delegation from the Center for Local Authorities in Israel headed by Haim Pepas, head of Modi'in settlement, in the activities of the "GITEX" technology conference. Which was established in the Emirates.

The first container of goods from Israel to reach Jebel Ali port in the UAE (Al-Jazeera)

Settlements wines

Trade agreements provide for the UAE to import products from settlement companies and factories established on lands privately owned by Palestinians, including olive oil, wine and wines, honey and tahini, and other settlement products that were included at the beginning of the year 2020 on the UN blacklist issued by the United Nations and includes 112 factories and companies in the settlements Which is considered illegal by international law.

The Emirati company "FAM" will import wine and wines from the "Arnon Wine" company and factories in the Itamar settlement, which was built on private lands for Palestinian residents of the villages of Awarta, Beit Furik and Aqraba in the Nablus governorate. Thousands of dunams of agricultural land were forcibly seized by the Palestinian population, which were transferred to agriculture. Settlement.

Whereas, the olive oil will be imported by Abu Dhabi from the "Bracha" settlement established on the lands of the villages of Burin and Kafr Qalil, south of Nablus since 1983, when the settlement, which was established in 1982 as a military outpost of the occupation army, seized large areas of the lands of the refugees and the inhabitants of Palestinian villages. Thousands of acres with olive trees, and it also established a factory for oil and olive products.

Settlements' products of wine, wines and olive oil are marketed in the Emirates (Al-Jazeera)

Settlement Agriculture

And from the settlement of "Rahalim", which was established in 1999 on a military base on occupied lands from the villages of Iskaka, Yasuf and Yatma in the south of Nablus governorate, and it was officially declared a colony in 2002. The UAE will import wine and olive oil from the settlement company, Toura, knowing that the company was expelled by force of military orders. Hundreds of Palestinian families have prevented them from cultivating their lands, which were turned into settlement farming.

From the "Hermesh" settlement, which was established in 1984 and seized hundreds of dunams from the village of Qaffin, north of Tulkarm, the UAE will import honey from the "Paradise" company that is based in the settlement. At this stage, the Israeli government is looking to seize 5,000 dunams. New ones for the expansion of the settlement and the strengthening of the settlement project in the northern West Bank.

From Mount Gerizim in Nablus, which is inhabited by Samaritan Jews, the UAE will only import tahini from the "Tahina Jabal Al Baraka" factory owned by the Cohen family.

Emirati initiatives

Last November, the UAE started importing agricultural products from Israel, following the agreements signed between Abu Dhabi and Israeli companies operating farms and factories in the Jordan Valley and Wadi Araba.

The agreements provide for Israel to export agricultural products and crops, including vegetables and fruits, to the UAE. It was also agreed to assign the Israeli company "Carmel Agricco" to invest, establish farms and develop agricultural projects in the UAE using the latest technology innovations.

Last October, he announced the establishment of an Israeli-Emirati-American fund called the "Abraham Fund", to which more than $ 3 billion would be allocated to economic and commercial projects and initiatives in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem in particular.

The injection of Emirati money into the settlements' economy comes at a time when the settlements are costing the Palestinian market losses of about $ 3.4 billion annually as a result of the occupation authorities preventing Palestinians from accessing and using lands and investing in areas named "C", according to a report by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of National Economy.

Land privately owned by Palestinians whose owners are prevented from entering, to be seized and used in settlement agriculture (the island)

Settlements Economy

The number of settlement companies and factories is estimated at about one thousand companies, operating in 16 to 20 industrial zones in the West Bank, and extending over about one hundred thousand dunams of agricultural settlement lands that were confiscated from the Palestinians.

The settlements economy constitutes about 30% of the Israeli gross national product, as Israeli estimates that are based on IMF projections indicate that the national product for 2020 will reach about $ 383 billion, with Israel ranked 29th in the world.

By decisions of successive governments, Israel has established more than 132 settlements spanning nearly 800,000 dunams that were confiscated from Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where about 450,000 settlers live, in addition to a hundred illegal settlement outposts from the Israeli point of view, which the Regional Council of Settlements has been establishing in contravention of decisions The government is seeking to legalize and whitewash 90% of these outposts under the "settlement bleaching law" that was approved by the Knesset in February 2017.