Abu Dhabi may be committed to the Abraham Accords, mainly due to the political immunity it perceives the deal to provide. Its involvement in the Sudan genocide is increasingly becoming a PR catastrophe that could test the utility of the accords. Domestically, however, the messaging has changed.

Originally shared on X by (/@MohanadElbalal), Somalia’s Professor Abdi Ismail Samatar speaking at the pan-African Summit: “The UAE is comparable to those who supported apartheid … we should deal with them exactly as we dealt with supporters of apartheid.”

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Amused by the change in UAE’s domestic propaganda. Nothing tells me enthusiasm for the Abraham Accords have waned like the podcast episodes they keep churning out.

Host: Describe the Jewish character.

Usama al-Shadhili: It is one of perpetual victimhood, and perpetual whining.

Khazal Al Majidi tells Emirati Jamal Al Mulla that Israel wants to take over the entire Middle East and rule over the Arab world; ‘it wants to enslave us.’

The UAE is changing its tone on Israel altogether. Popular podcaster hosts an Iraqi historian who disputes that the Jewish homeland is tied to Palestine. He argues that there’s no archeological evidence to Moses and his people having supposedly lived in Egypt either.

That’s where we’re at now.

There’s a trend on TikTok of Khaleejis using a sound of a Persian-speaking lady to post videos of themselves supposedly calling to check in on relatives in Iran.

For the record, UAE’s Anwar Gargash is not only Ajam, his mother and his wife are both Iranian.