📰 “Welcome to Israel’s War”: Gulf States Watch, Wince, and Do Nothing

Once hailed as the new crossroads of peace, Dubai now watches Israeli missiles streak across skies once reserved for luxury drones and influencer reels. Tel Aviv promised tech and trade. Instead, it delivered war—and a region now wondering if normalization came with a hidden war clause.

💬 “Now the madman with a gun is Israel, it’s not Iran.”

— Mohammed Baharoon, Director, B’huth (Dubai think tank)

🏦The Deal of the Century… Went Up in Smoke
Just weeks ago, Trump was posing in Riyadh beside Gulf royals and Saudi-American flags, celebrating hundreds of billions in investment deals. Now, those same allies are waiving visa fees for stranded Iranians and scrambling to contain a conflict that threatens to derail their post-oil economic dreams.

🧨 Normalization, meet napalm
As Israel bombs centrifuge halls in Iran, what was supposed to be the “new Middle East” is learning that partnerships with a nuclear-obsessed rogue actor come with fallout—literal and diplomatic. Gulf officials privately cheer a weakened Iran but publicly decry Israel’s recklessness. Privately pragmatic, publicly panicked.

⚓️ No brakes, no roadmap
Even those who hate the Iranian regime now worry more about the friend who won't take his finger off the trigger. As one diplomat put it: “This is Israel’s world, and we’re just watching it right now.” Washington, despite being the only one who might restrain Netanyahu, seems more interested in bunker-busting than bridge-building.

⛩ If every Israeli missile turns Gulf investment into ash and no Arab state is willing to say “enough”—what exactly was the Abraham Accord buying, and for whom?

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