It was very rare that the Gulf of Qatar could have been done against the state ballistic missiles, Israel Firal fired it about two weeks ago.
As Media reportAround 10 Israeli fighter jets flew over the Red Sea on 9 September – ensuring that no other country was in the airspace – before firing missiles, known as the “Over the Horizon” attack.
In this way, ballistic missiles travel in the upper atmosphere of the Earth or even external space before coming down again. The ultimate goal of the Israeli missiles was a member of the militant Hamas Group, who held a meeting to discuss a potential Gaza Ceasefire in a Upskale neighborhood in Qatar’s capital, Doha. Six people were killed, although Israeli did not apparently the goals.
Because the missiles flew unexpectedly, from the horizon, Qatar could reduce themselves to protect themselves. As it is, one of the most important security measures of Qatar against Israel has nothing to do with the sophisticated wrong defense systems. Israel’s largest ally, the US, is the largest regional basis in the country and Qatar has recently been given the status of “major non-NATO allies”.
But it does not seem that Israel is not sufficient to stop Israel from making its first known attack on the Arab state. So it’s a trick America’s ability should have been known.
We were seen as an incredible
Scholar Christin Dewan, a senior resident of the Arabian Gulf States Institute in Washington, said, “Israel’s strike … shakes the Gulf notion about its relations with the US and shakes the Gulf notes and a senior resident scholar of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington will bring the topper together.” Wrote shortly after the attack“These oil monarchies are very much the same … find a direct strike on your sovereign and anthma for the alleged safety topic.”
As a result, “Gulf rulers are moving forward with the discovery of more strategic autonomy and are firm to defend against risks on the basis of America,” Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa Program of Chautham House, confirmed in OP-AD in the UK newspaper, MentorThis month.
Why all this is, in the last one week, there is a matter of formation of a “Islamic NATO”, a Raksha alliance of Islamic and Arab states that can work similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.
Last week, at an emergency summit organized by the Arab League and the organization of Islamic cooperation, Egyptian officials suggested a NATO-style, Joint Task Force for Arab nations. In a speech at the summit, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani called for a collective outlook for regional security. And six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – Activated a provision in a joint defense agreement, first signed in 2000, signed in 2000, stating that a member state states what is an attack on all.
Phrasing is the same used in Article 5 of NATO Treaty.
Following the initial emergency summit, the Defense Minister of Gulf States held another meeting in Doha and agreed to increase intelligence sharing and air status reports and to track a new regional system for ballistic missile warnings. Plans for joint military exercises have been announced.
The same week, Saudi Arabia announced that it was entering the “strategic mutual defense agreement” with Pakistan. The two countries declared that “any aggression against any country will be considered aggression against both.”
Is this the beginning of ‘Islamic NATO’?
It may seem that something like the “Islamic NATO” is being made to combat Israel in this way, but the reality is slightly different, supervisors told DW.
“The alliance of a NATO-style is unrealistic because it will be for wars to the Gulf states that they do not consider to be important for their interests. No ruler in the Gulf wants to be drawn with Israel on Egypt’s Beelf, for example, a senior lecturer at the Security Study School at Kings College London, said.
However, things are changing after the Doha attack, supervisors say.
“Security in the Gulf has long been based on an auxiliary argument, [where] Originally you pay to someone else to take care of your safety, “War continues.” This mentality has started shifting after the attack on Doha, “Hey accepts,” but only slowly. ,
What can the world see instead of “Islamic NATO”, it is the so -called “6+2 format”, Cinezia Bianco states, the Gulf State Specialist in the European Council on foreign relations, or ECFR. phrase, “6+2,” refers to six GCC states and Türkiye and Egypt.
Bianco believes that such a format is likely that the leg discussed this week on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly.
“This is not real about an article 5 types of arrangements, however, he told the DW -Gulf States to protect each other that he is not solid like members of NATO.” It is likely to be more about being safety and collecting defense currencies and, perhaps, the most important thing is that the message of deteralrence is sent to Israel, “he explained the DW.
Military help from elsewhere
“6+2” makes more understanding than a “Islamic NATO”, the war continues. Turkey is actually “the most reliable non-western partner for the Gulf, since 2017, Qatar has the real ability to move quickly in the already deployed soldiers and crises,” war arguments. “Although Egypt is more complex. It has military mass but its credibility is questioned in some Gulf capitals.”
And even if the “6+2” is on the format card, it will gradually and quietly, both war and Bianco notes.
“Most of the serious changes are behind the curtains,” the war predicts. “We will see public communism, summit and joint exercises. But important tasks such as sharing radar data, integrating initial-warning systems or granting basing rights will be prudent.”
It is possible that the states of the Gulf, which have a large extent in the US, may try to expand defense relations with other countries.
Sinum Sengies, a researcher at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University, said, “There are definitely other actors like Russia and China, who are ready to change the US.” “But it is unlikely that any external actor will change America.”
There is no way that the states of the Gulf want Bianco to say anyway. They are dependent on American military technology. For example, after the Doha attack, Qatar revived the US that he was still his partner.
“The import side here has been noted openly against such regionalization of defense,” says Bianco. “They have really always encouraged a single ballistic missile defense architecture for Gulf countries.”
In fact, more military integration in the Gulf may mean more, as the American systems are the backbone of regional defense, waring.
“But the political meaning has moved,” he concludes. “Washington is no longer seen as the last guarantor of security, but as a partner whose support and transaction.
Edited by: M. Cousin