alt Hacker News> Put together, we’re seeing an Emirati-Israeli axis emerging to balance Saudi hegemony in the Gulf and Iranian hegemony over the Persian Gulf. I’d expect to see an Emirati deal with Egypt and India next if this hypothesis is correct.
Don't Egypt and Israel hate each other though? Could UAE feasibly align with both?
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bilegeek • yesterday at 2:09 PM
They're not buddies per se, but Egypt was the first ME country to normalize relations.
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j_maffe • yesterday at 2:10 PM
Egyptians and Israelis hate each other, not their governments. They're on friendly terms relatively speaking.
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aprilthird2021 • yesterday at 2:21 PM
If Egypt were a democracy, its government would hate Israel. That's why the current dictator overthrew the last democracy and had its elected leader die in jail, and that same dictator is now supported heavily by US funding
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diogenes_atx • yesterday at 2:14 PM
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Virtually all Arabs hate Israel but Arab governments are more varied. The modern Egyptian state is oriented toward close partnership with the US, and a large part of that was peace with Israel post '73.
So yes, the UAE could align with both.