A Study of the Normalization of relations between the Persian Gulf Countries and the Zionist Regime; A Case Study of United Arab Emirate and Bahrain

The process of normalization of relations between Arabs and the Zionist regime after the futile fights and conflicts began with the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Jordan was the second country which signed a Peace Treaty with Israel to normalize the relations. Madrid Peace Treaty in the 1990s was a stepping stone for the Zionist regime to begin the secret diplomacy with the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf in two branches of arms and security diplomacy. Gradually, the diplomatic convergences of the Zionist regime and Arabs were formed based on the emergence of the common threat. The covert information, security, arm-dealing cooperation and common political projects in order to oppose the axis of resistance in the West Asia continued for years. The United Arab Emirate, Bahrain and the Zionist regime did whatever they could to weaken the axis of resistance led by the Islamic Republic of Iran; however, after the strategic successes of the axis of resistance, Islamic awakening and all the transformations that followed, they had no choice but to reveal their mutual relations and make them official. This revelation of the relations presents both goals and consequences which the present paper seeks to find.