{"id":116180,"date":"2026-05-16T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:23:07","slug":"as-netanyahu-spotlights-israels-ties-to-the-uae-its-rulers-prefer-to-be-discreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116180\/","title":{"rendered":"As Netanyahu spotlights Israel&#8217;s ties to the UAE, its rulers prefer to be discreet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6LOUHD6VZVBMJJW4AU6TVYBUKU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">JERUSALEM \u2014 The tight relationship between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is typically managed discreetly. But this week, it was thrust into the open, illuminating tensions underlying the alliance as the Iran war embroils the entire region.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5DU3UJC26FE45GA6MHYJ2H3HUU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mike-huckabee-trump-israel-ambassador-palestinians-gaza-18b197a670d448acf62604bd7b4c8fa0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Huckabee<\/a> , first brought attention to the strengthening ties between Israel and the UAE by revealing that Israel had sent <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-defense-iron-dome-yemen-missile-iran-647f515541d408e6002ae96f4257529e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Dome air-defense weapons<\/a> and personnel to operate them to help protect the UAE from Iranian attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM \u2014 The tight relationship between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is typically managed discreetly. But this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[197,196,37,768,39999,200,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-116180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-general-news","9":"tag-iran-war","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-military-and-defense","12":"tag-ml-israel-uae-explainer","13":"tag-war-and-unrest","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116582587001186497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}