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Israel Online · Sep 14, 2026

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UAE Academic Questions the Future of Arab Alliances Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a prominent Emirati political science professor, expressed deep frustration with the state of regional alliances in a post on X. “The Arab coalition has expired. The Red Sea coalition was born to die. The Mecca alliance dissolved like a pinch of salt when the moment of truth came,” he wrote. Abdulla also argued that the Gulf Cooperation Council failed to activate joint Gulf defense during what he described as Iranian aggression, said the alliance with the United States cannot be relied upon, and declared that the Arab “moderation axis” has disappeared. He ended with a blunt question: “What is to be done?”

*UAE Academic Questions the Future of Arab Alliances* Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a prominent Emirati political science professor, expressed deep frustration with the state of regional alliances in a post on X. “The Arab coalition has expired. The Red Sea coalition was born to die. The Mecca alliance dissolved like a pinch of salt when the moment of truth came,” he wrote. Abdulla also argued that the Gulf Cooperation Council failed to activate joint Gulf defense during what he described as Iranian aggression, said the alliance with the United States cannot be relied upon, and declared that the Arab “moderation axis” has disappeared. He ended with a blunt question: “What is to be done?”

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