Two more Muslim countries ‘will join Abraham Accords’

One of the United Arab Emirates’ most influential writers and strategists, Amjad Taha, has predicted that two more countries — Malaysia and Indonesia — will join the Abraham Accords by the end of 2026. 

Taha, speaking at a private lunch in central London held by the Elnet think tank, told Jewish News that talks with the two countries were at “an advanced stage” and that he also believed a number of “small African countries” would follow suit.

The event, moderated by the former Bicom chief executive Dermot Kehoe, featured two other UAE-based political strategists, Ahmed Sharif Al-Ameri and Mozah Alkindi. Elnet described Taha as “one of the most visible and energetic advocates for Arab-Israeli normalis-ation in the international media. He led the first independent youth delegation from the Gulf to visit Israel, and was a founding member of the Sharaka Institute, an NGO dedicated to building people-to-people connections between Israel and the Arab world.

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“In the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks, he became one of the most prominent Arab voices defending Israel’s right to self-defence on the international stage, appearing on CNN, Sky News, Fox News, GB News, and Newsweek.”

Taha, who has more than two million followers on social media, brought a simple, central message to the journalists and activists present: Britain must ban the Muslim Brotherhood. He and his colleagues made the same case to MPs in parliament on Wednesday morning, warning of almost inevitable future terror attacks in Britain, not all of which would be directed only at the Jewish community.

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In wide-ranging remarks, Taha spoke of the steadfastness of countries already signed up to the Abraham Accords, declaring that what he labelled the Hamas “genocide” of October 7 2023 had been specifically designed to undermine and destroy the agreement. “But the Accords did not collapse”, he said, and the UAE in particular had maintained its support for its own growing Jewish community and for burgeoning trade with Israel. There were now more than 300 plus Israeli companies trading in Dubai and he was confident that there would be more.

His country had taken “a moral stance” after October 7, he said, adding that “there is no cause that could ever justify the kidnapping and killing of an eight-month old baby”, referring to the murders of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, together with their mother.

He noted scornfully of the lack of protest in the West over the 40,000 Iranian citizens killed in January by the Islamic Republic’s regime; and, referring to recent antisemitic attacks in the UK, to the fact that “an Orthodox Jewish person can go anywhere in the UAE, but apparently not in the UK”.

He reminded his audience that “antisemitism is a crime in the UAE,” and described how his government trod firmly on travellers appearing to support the Muslim Brotherhood, by deporting them and refusing them visas for life.

Asked how Dubai viewed the current “peace deal” between America and Iran, Taha acknowledged that “there is no way that this is a good deal,” which he believed mistakenly rewarded Iran. He described it as “shameful and disastrous”. He was critical, too, of Pakistan as the supposed brokers of the deal. “Were we happy with Pakistan in this role? Absolutely not”.