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Comment by nailer

3 years ago

Hamas is defeated and Gaza is policed by the UAE. Movement across the border to Israel doesn’t resume. Movement across the border to Egypt continues to not happen.

Does the UAE actually want Gaza? It seems like a country a bit closer would be better off taking control even if UAE wants it. However, it is important to note that none of the neighbors want the Palestinians (Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan). They may want the land though?

  • Nobody wants Gaza, not Israel, not Egypt, and not the UAE. However the UAE want regional peace and don’t like seeing Arabs be poor.

    • Well, I think most countries in the area want the land (or wouldn't mind having it, if it was given to them). I've seen some estimates of 1.7 billion barrels of oil in Gaza. I doubt any of the neighboring countries would turn that down.

      The issue is nobody wants the people.

Why in the world would the UAE want to get involved in that mess?

  • US will give them some concessions and UAE has historically been Gazas biggest benefactor. The other option is Israel let’s gazans starve which uae doesn’t want.

  • You’ll gave to ask them that but the Hamas attacks were to disrupt normalisation of relations between Saudi, UAE and Israel, and some of the better analysts have said that was the plan. Taking a guess, I imagine it would be that regional peace benefits everyone.