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In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Today, statements by both Ms. Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE Minister of State, and Dr. Anwar Gargash, advisor to UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed, caught my attention. These statements converged on one point: a type of warning, not a threat, to the Israeli occupation state. They stated that the UAE would downgrade its diplomatic relations with the Israeli occupation state if it proceeds with annexing the West Bank. This is because there is very strong talk now that the Israeli Knesset is about to convene to annex the West Bank to the occupation state, and definitively so, after they completely changed its name in the Knesset from the West Bank to Judea and Samaria.
When the UAE threatens to downgrade relations with Israel, the obvious question is: why not sever these relations from the very first moment the genocidal crimes in Gaza were committed? Soft diplomacy with an entity that only understands the language of force is not wisdom, but rather a cover-up for failure. Whoever speaks of extremist views should re-examine themselves, for true extremism is silence in the face of killing and starvation. Positions are not measured by statements, but by actions, and the UAE, to date, is content with words.
Of course, this is a useful stance, no doubt. It is useful to have a warning or even a threat to Israel that if you annex the West Bank, we will downgrade diplomatic representation. But it is not sufficient at all, not sufficient. This threat is insufficient. If this state annexes the West Bank, after committing the war of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and starvation in the Gaza Strip, and killing more than, say, 70,000 martyrs, injuring 250,000 others, including about 30,000 children and infants, then downgrading relations with them is not sufficient at all. Rather, severing relations is the strong response, because these people have committed all forms of crime against a defenseless people in the Gaza Strip and also in the West Bank. They do not respect sovereignty, nor do they respect ceasefire agreements. Did you see what happened in the Gaza Strip? They took the living prisoners and are now playing with about 30 skeletons, and they are threatening to return to the war of genocide. Also, in southern Lebanon, there have been more than 550,000 ceasefire violations, and every day there are massacres and killings of our people in southern Lebanon, the Beqaa, and elsewhere. So, what we want to say is that downgrading relations is not enough. Non-Arab and non-Islamic countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa have severed their relations with the Israeli occupation state and expelled ambassadors. We should have said the same thing. There is no peace in Abraham [Accords] in light of this war of genocide, and the UAE should lead in this direction. Because when the Abraham Accords were signed under pressure from Trump in his first term, they said it was to preserve Palestinian lands. Did you see the destruction that occurred in the Gaza Strip? Did you see that 95% of Gaza is now destroyed? Did you see how our people in the Gaza Strip have become and the tragic situation they are living? Dr. Gargash says extremist views are no longer in Russia. Well, my brother, what have moderate decisions achieved? Show us what they have achieved. If one's country is destroyed, his family is killed, and they starve to death, how can he have moderate views? How can his opinion be moderate? And the diplomatic flexibility that Dr. Lana Nusseibeh spoke of? What diplomatic flexibility with people who are committing genocide, stopping water, electricity, all means of life, and medicines, and destroying more than 40 hospitals in the Strip? What diplomatic flexibility with these people? We are speaking from our anguish, from our hearts, from the tragedy we are witnessing. Therefore, we urge the UAE to lead by completely severing relations with the occupation state, because there is no peace with them. They do not want peace, and they speak of Greater Israel, incorporating lands from more than five or six Arab countries. So, how can we have peace with these people? I will stop here, and thank you, and goodbye in the next video.