Islamic human rights organisation, Muslim Rights Concern, has said nothing good will come out of the “hobnobbing” of Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a chat with The PUNCH on Wednesday, said the United States and other countries in the West are “coercing” the countries in the Middle East to befriend Israel.
According to MURIC director, Israel must apologise for the war crimes its troops committed in May on Palestinian soil before engaging in any peace move with Arab states.
Akintola said, “The hobnobbing of UAE with Israel including the recent opening of an embassy in Israel is under influence, UAE is being intimidated. The Arab countries befriending Israel are acting under Western influence, America’s influence in particular.
“One of the gains of capitalism is strangulation, forceful coercion, intimidating people and nations to do things against their will. You can compare it to the way the Western countries tried to bastardised African culture and Nigerian traditional values by asking Nigeria to accept same-sex marriages, homosexualism, lesbianism and all that kind of trash.
“UAE is not acting of its own volition. It is being intimidated and this friendship cannot last for long.”
He said the Middle East was being coerced by all the countries supporting “Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and their Allah-given rights”, adding that the UAE-Israel deal was not geared towards peace in the Middle East as it was painted.
