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The UAE announced it’s withdrawing from OPEC on May 1st. This decision comes as the Gulf nation wants to expand its oil production and as a consequence of the war on Iran which disrupted shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. What does this mean?
Al Jazeera’s Marah Rayan explains.
The UAE has announced it’s withdrawing from OPEC and OPEC+.
Al Jazeera’s Michael Appel outlines the significance of the announcement and its likely impact on the energy market.
متحدہ عرب امارات کا 60 سال بعد اوپیک اور اوپیک پلس چھوڑنے کا فیصلہ۔۔سعودی عرب سے اختلافات میں اضافہ یا تیل کے کوٹے میں اضافے کی خواہش پوری نہ ہونے کا غصہ ؟تفصیلات دیکھیے
The United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC, dealing a blow to the group and its leader Saudi Arabia as the global oil industry grapples with the massive supply disruption caused by the Iran war.
@JoumannaTV explains https://t.co/PRXSmlrNG2
Breaking news: The United Arab Emirates has said it is leaving Opec, dealing a significant blow to the oil cartel and its de facto leader Saudi Arabia https://t.co/nQXvmiqhEo
Beyond easing Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions, China-led Urumqi process serves Beijing’s broader strategic interests. Ihsanullah Tipu Mehsud explains why this process holds more significance than earlier mediation attempts by Doha, Istanbul and Saudi Arabia. https://t.co/hCJwFGNeob
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In the ever-turbulent theatre of Middle Eastern geopolitics, Israel’s own *Jerusalem Times* has just reported a development of historic magnitude: the formation of a new strategic bloc uniting Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia a constellation representing some 500 million people.
Pakistan brings nuclear deterrence; Saudi Arabia, its unparalleled energy leverage; Egypt, sovereign command of the Suez Canal; and Turkey, NATO membership allied to a sophisticated defence-industrial base. Together they signal a potential reordering of regional power that cannot be dismissed lightly.
A balanced observer, surveying the sweep of the past sixty years, is compelled to a sobering conclusion. Successive Israeli governments acting under the ideological banner of Zionism’s “Greater Israel” project have engaged in a pattern of territorial expansion, settlement activity, and military operations that have repeatedly breached international law, strained moral norms, and inflicted profound suffering upon Muslim-majority states and populations. From the displacements and conflicts of 1948 onward, through the occupations and annexations that followed, to the devastating campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria in recent years, the cumulative effect has been a deepening perception across the Muslim world that Israel constitutes an existential threat not merely to Palestinians but to the security and sovereignty of every Muslim state in the region.
The horrors witnessed in Gaza described by respected international bodies and legal scholars as meeting the threshold of genocide have served as a tragic capstone to this long arc. What began as a nationalist vision of maximalist territorial control has, through its own logic of unending pressure and pre-emption, produced precisely the outcome its architects least desired: the galvanisation of a coherent, multi-dimensional counterweight.
Under the protective strategic umbrella of the United States, Israel’s policy of sustained military dominance and demographic engineering has backfired. Instead of neutralising threats, it has forged a defensive solidarity among states that might otherwise have remained divided by sect, ideology, or competing national interests. The new bloc is not an offensive pact born of aggression; it is the rational, self-preserving response of nations that have watched, for six decades, a pattern they can no longer afford to ignore.
History is littered with examples of expansionist projects that, by their very relentlessness, created the coalitions that ultimately contained them. Whether this alignment proves durable or merely tactical remains to be seen. What is already clear is that the era of unchallenged Israeli exceptionalism in the region may be drawing to a close not because of ideological triumph on the other side, but because the human, legal, and strategic costs of the status quo have finally become intolerable to those most directly affected.
The Middle East is changing. And the change, ironically, has been accelerated by the very policies that sought to prevent it.
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If someone in the audience manages to turn an unrelated discussion into a question about Pakistan, chances are they’re Indian. It’s a curious obsession!