Has India snatched Saudi Arabia from Pakistan?

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A landmark agreement was reached between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, according to which Israel would postpone its plans to annex large parts of the West Bank and diplomatic relations would begin between the two countries.

Till now Israel had no diplomatic relations with the Arab countries of the Gulf. The agreement was announced by US President Donald Trump himself.

According to reports, Palestinian leaders are reportedly shocked by the deal. According to the news of Arab News, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has proposed to call a meeting of Arab League after this agreement.

They fear that after this agreement, other Gulf countries will also strengthen relations with Israel and this will have an impact on the ‘Arab Peace Agreement’.

Polarization of Islamic countries

In a way, his concern is also legitimate. The initial reaction of other Islamic countries has just come to this decision of the United Arab Emirates. Egypt and Jordan have welcomed this decision.

This entire development will affect the relations between the Gulf countries, the politics of the Middle East and other countries of the world that have relations with them, and India will not remain untouched by that.

With the new agreement, the Islamic world seems to be polarizing.

Senior journalist Harendra Mishra, who lives in Israel, says that currently the Muslim country of the world seems clearly divided into three camps.

Iran is seen standing apart, Saudi Arabia and UAE seem to lead together in the second camp, and a third camp is seen of Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan. Overall, this factionalism of the Islamic world will increase further after this decision.

The effect of the agreement on India

In such a situation, the question arises that what effect will this decision have on India. According to Times of India diplomatic editor Indrani Bagchi, India has good relations with both Israel and the UAE.

The thinking of Israel and India is also similar to regional security in the Middle East. The UAE is an emerging force there. Therefore, if both countries come together, India will welcome it too.

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But will the coming together of this pair have any effect in isolating Pakistan?

On this, Indrani says, “Pakistan has isolated itself by going with China. But Pakistan will always dominate the Islamic countries, we cannot easily deny this fact. Pakistan alone in Islamic countries There is a country which has nuclear power. Because of this, it holds a different status in Islamic countries. “

She says that if Pakistan is a little bit isolated today, then the reason for this is itself and its policies.

Harendra Mishra says that earlier Saudi Arabia and UAE were considered with Pakistan, but for some time, their relationship with India has improved a lot compared to Pakistan.

As an example of this, he mentions last year’s Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in which India was called as a special observer even after Pakistan did not want to. Pakistan was against this invitation, but the UAE did not listen.

Pakistan Factor

This was the first time after five decades, when India was called to this meeting. Not only this, in the annual meeting of the OIC to be held this year, Pakistan accused India of actively promoting Islamophobia, which was rejected. This time Maldives had landed in support of India.

Says Harendra Mishra, “A close resemblance with the UAE and Saudi Arabia was seen even after the Balakot attack. There were reports at some places that Saudi Arabia played an important role in the rescue of India’s pilots.” There was a lot of pressure from the UAE and Saudi Arabia as well. “

Recently, when Pakistan raised questions in the OIC about the removal of 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, then it clearly told Saudi Arabia that this is an internal matter of India.

After this, in view of the attitude of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan to pay a loan of one billion dollars, which it took in 2018.

In 2019, the United Arab Emirates also awarded PM Modi its highest civilian honor.

All these developments suggest that India’s relations with the UAE and Saudi Arabia have been very good and if any kind of agreement has been reached with Israel, then certainly India will stand with this group of Islamic countries.

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Other Gulf countries, who will be supporters of this agreement, will also have good relations with India. It will also help India in a way to isolate Pakistan. Not only this, where the world is moving towards the multipolar world today, India, USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia are seen together in a big group.

Harendra Mishra sees another major impact of this decision on India. Several agreements have been signed between India and Israel to make defense equipment in recent times. Gulf countries are considered to be a major market for defense equipment. In such a situation, whatever military equipment India will make with the help of Israel, there will be no time in selling it.

The Defense Minister of India has also given the slogan of self-reliant India in the defense sector.

After UAE, Saudi Arabia’s turn

The friendship between the UAE and Saudi Arabia is also well known. In such a situation, most people believe that Saudi Arabia will also follow the path of UAE. But Indrani has a slightly different opinion on this. They believe that Saudi Arabia may not be fully exposed. Behind that It also explains the reason.

According to him, Saudi Arabia is considered to be the most protectionist ideology in religious affairs in the Middle East. Because of this, given the past history with Israel, it may be difficult to openly come to Saudi Arabia with the Jews. Although politically, the Saudis have been with Israel for many years.

Indrani says that Saudi Arabia has allowed India to use its airspace to start the airline between India and Israel. This is an example of how Saudi’s attitude towards Israel has changed in the recent past.

But Harendra Mishra does not think so. He says, “There is an old saying friend’s friend, friend and friend’s enemy enemy. Right now the enemy of both Saudi Arabia and Israel is Iran. So there is a lot of possibility that both will also come together in future.”

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He says that this is also indicated by the press conference of the US President on Thursday.

Speaking to the press after the deal, the US President said, “Now that the ‘ice’ has melted, I hope that some more Arab-Muslim countries will follow the United Arab Emirates.”

Israel and Saudi Arabia’s friendship

In fact, Saudi Arabia came with Israel, such Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu himself also wants. There is a demand for his resignation at this time in Israel. He is also accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust as well as not being able to handle Corona epidemic properly.

In such a situation, he wants that the more countries with which relations are good, the more successful they will be in isolating the Palestinians and it will be easier to create a positive environment for themselves.

In addition, both Israel and Saudi Arabia consider Iran as their enemy. In this regard, the relationship between the two has been of cooperation in the last few years.

Today, Iran’s rivalry with other countries in the Arab world is religious. Iran leads Shia minorities, then Saudi Arabia Sunni majority. As a friend of America, Israel is always on the target of Iran. After the Israel-UAE agreement because of America, now the rift in Iran and Israel will increase further.

On several occasions, Israel’s army chief and other leaders have said that the two countries have a common interest. Iran is a concern for us in the Middle East and we are ready to fight together. Both countries have also been sharing intelligence information against Iran for some time. Israel has accepted this thing itself.

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