Les pays du Golfe et Israël : une convergence d’intérêts ?

Marteu, Élisabeth

doi:10.3917/pe.201.0067

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“…After 2011, joint Gulf initiatives emerged with greater rapidity and the realisation that the Arab Uprisings posed an existential threat to monarchy. The 2013 coup against President Morsi in Egypt added a sense of urgency for cooperation between Israel and Gulf countries, Saudi and UAE in particular, because of their common animosity against Muslim Brotherhood parties and the perception that US President Obama was ‘soft’ on Iran (Marteu, 2020, p. 70). Thus, coming to power in 2017, Trump's first main diplomatic tour to Saudi Arabia and Israel and his rejection of Obama's deal with Iran in 2018 were no coincidence: he simply endorsed the vision that Israel and the Gulf had developed since 2007 or 2008, and which deepened in the mid‐2010s.…”

Section: Pushing the Settler Colonial Critique: Seeing The Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This third transformation accelerated the trend of the Gulf as a magnet for security experts. Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ), a key security figure in the 2010s, and ruler of the UAE since May 2022, was a harbinger of cooperation with Israel on technology and security (Marteu, 2020). Another of these security experts is Palestinian strongman Mohammed Dahlan, who fell out of favour with President Abbas in 2009–2010, (Tartir, 2019, p. 222, fn.…”

Section: Pushing the Settler Colonial Critique: Seeing The Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8) but who was appointed by MBZ to enact Emirati security policies. The Israeli Foreign Ministry and members of the intelligence community paved the road for more collaboration with Gulf countries (Marteu, 2020, p. 69). After the crushing of the Manama protests in March 2011, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) deepened its military cooperation, and the subsequent developments contributed to ‘a militarized hypernationalism’ with mercenaries from as far as Africa and Latin America flocking to the Gulf region (Al‐Rasheed, 2018, p. 21).…”

Section: Pushing the Settler Colonial Critique: Seeing The Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Innovation as erasure: Palestine and the new regional alliances of technology

Tarvainen,

Challand

2023

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This article explores the growing connections between the Persian Gulf states and the heavily militarised Israeli innovation ecosystem. The Gulf actors now play an increasing role in support of Israel as a globally expanding ‘Start‐up Nation’, and are involved in transforming Palestinian land into a regional frontier of technology in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israeli‐Gulf cooperation and its impact on Palestinians, however, has not been thoroughly researched. Drawing from fieldwork among Palestinian and Israeli innovation elites, we map these growing connections between Gulf state actors and Israel and analyse how the occupied Palestinian territories are further enmeshed in complex networks of financial capitalist and settler colonial security interests. Theoretically, the paper advances the critique of the contemporary settler colonial frontier, venturing beyond its usual Eurocentric and binary geographies. We conclude that ‘innovation’ is both (a) the terrain of expanding structures of Israeli colonisation and (b) the site of productive ambivalences and novel forms of resistance in an evolving regional and global reality.

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Section: Pushing the Settler Colonial Critique: Seeing The Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pushing the Settler Colonial Critique: Seeing The Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%