Arabs behind Israel’s business

Israel’s economy has faced serious damage in the last year. However, it still managed to survive because the Arabs were behind Israel’s business.

Arab and Muslim governments participated in the campaign to support Gaza last year and were not allowed to buy Israeli goods. This campaign was noticed at first, but later the trade of these countries with Israel returned to normal, as statistics show that their trade with the occupation regime has increased instead .of decreasing

The latest customs report of the Zionist regime shows that imports from Arab countries have increased recently. This issue has led to some kind of policy of other countries being less effective against this regime. The interesting thing to note here is that the origin of the imported goods is not very important for the countries that import goods from Israel. In other words, these countries can easily import the same goods from other countries. For this reason, this duality has led to political tension in the Middle East. On the other hand, its economy depends on the import of goods more than it has anything to say.

behind Israel’s business is what

According to the annual report of the Abraham Peace Institute, trade between the Zionist regime and 7 Arab countries has broken records in 2023. These countries that have normalized their relations with Israel have become importers of goods rather than taking economic benefits from this country. So that they have imported 4 billion dollars of goods from this country in one year. This amount of import has increased by 16% compared to 2022.

The interesting point is that the bilateral trade between these countries and the Zionist regime, after the start of the Gaza war last October, decreased by only 4%, that is, from 937 million dollars to 903 million dollars. In contrast, the total trade of the Zionist regime with the world decreased by about 18%. This has meant the boycott of most non-Arab countries from the products produced by the Zionist regime.

In the annual peace report of Abraham, the diplomatic relations after the beginning of Al-Aqsa storm are described as “stable”, but at the same time, it is acknowledged that the war had a strong negative impact on the public opinion of the region towards the Zionist regime. On this basis, the amount of use of Israeli goods in the region should be significantly reduced. This shows that the main reason for the increase in the entry of Israeli goods into the consumption market of Arab countries is the policy of their governments.

The Zionist regime has invested heavily in the construction of its ports in the past years. On this basis, it has strengthened the transit of goods. In such a way that the entire region has imported goods and re-exported them to other countries in the region. The transit of each shipment not only strengthens the economy of the occupant. Also, these economic interactions inform the hidden current of the formation of hidden political relations.

Türkiye continues to export to Israel through Greece

Türkiye was the first Muslim country to establish diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv. Statistics show that the export of goods to the Zionist regime has grown significantly, to the point where this country has been at the top of the countries that export goods from West Asia. The value of Turkish exports in 2020 was about 5.7 billion dollars. This statistic constitutes 6.2% of the total imports of the Zionist regime in that year.

The goods that Turkey exports to Israel include iron and steel ($1.06 billion), plastic ($464.67 million), electrical and electronic equipment ($346.83 million), vehicles ($331.48 million). , machinery ($298.89 million), metals ($261.66 million) and construction materials ($188.39 million).

While the Ankara government has always emphasized that in response to the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, it will completely stop its trade with this regime. Trade between Türkiye and the Zionist regime continues through third parties such as Greece. Statistics published by the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Zionist regime show that this regime imported goods worth 116 million dollars from Turkey in May 2024. Although compared to 377 million dollars in the import of goods compared to the same period last year, it has decreased by 69%, but it shows that the trade with this country has continued through intermediaries. Because the data of the Turkish Export Administration shows that the country’s exports to Greece reached 375 million dollars in May 2024, which has increased by 71% compared to the same period of 2023.

Also, according to the report of Turkish Statistical Institute, the value of trade between the two sides last year was 6.3 billion dollars, 76% of which was Turkish exports.

Targeting the UAE’s $10 billion trade

The United Arab Emirates ranks second in trade with Israel. This country normalized its relations with Tel Aviv with the “Ibrahim Agreement” signed in 2020 with the mediation of the United States. The UAE was the first Arab country to sign a free trade agreement (2022) with Israel under a plan to boost bilateral trade to $10 billion a year. The export value of this country reached 1.89 billion dollars in 2022. This amount of trade is about 2.1% of the total export of goods to the Zionist regime.

  The noteworthy point is the 1543% increase in the value of UAE exports to the Zionist regime since the agreement on the normalization of relations between the two sides. The most important exports of the UAE to Israel include precious metals and stones ($525.32 million), iron and steel ($483.95 million), electrical and electronic equipment ($210.71 million), and crude oil ($94.55 million). Is. However, a report by the Abraham Peace Institute showed that trade between the two sides decreased by 14 percent in the last quarter of 2023, following the start of the Gaza war.

The high value of Jordan’s trade with Israel

Jordan ranks third, trade with Israel.   Its export to the Zionist regime in 2022 has reached 469.25 million dollars.   Compared to 2018, Jordanian trade increased by 489%. Jordan’s main exports to Israel include plastic ($135.2 million), electrical and electronic equipment ($127.93 million), and iron and steel ($74.35 million).

According to the report of the Abraham Peace Institute, which examines and analyzes the progress of relations between Arab countries and the Zionist regime in the third year since the signing of the agreements. The actual trade value of the Abraham deal, including deals in natural gas, water and defense, is likely to be more than $10 billion.

Israel’s trade with Jordan in the first 9 months of last year decreased by 8 percent compared to 2022. Then, in the last quarter of the year, it decreased by 42%. However, this decrease was attributed to the jump in the export of Jordanian agricultural products in 2022. The value of natural gas and water exports from the Zionist regime to Egypt and Jordan is estimated at more than 2 billion dollars.

۱۶۸% increase in Egypt’s exports to Israel

Egypt is the first Arab country to have a peace treaty with Israel. In 2022, Egypt’s exports to this occupying regime were estimated at 179.31 million dollars. Egypt’s main exports to Israel include inorganic chemicals, precious metals ($61.15 million), construction materials ($14.26 million), food ($12.78 million), and plastic ($11.32 million). . The report of the Abraham Peace Institute indicates that in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Zionist regime’s trade with Egypt increased by 168% compared to last year and reached 191 million dollars from 71 million dollars.

The growth of Algerian trade contradicts the political position of this country

Algeria’s trade with Israel ranks fifth among countries in the region. Algeria’s export to the Zionist regime in 2022 was about 21.38 million dollars. Its major part was composed of inorganic chemicals, compounds of precious metals and isotopes. The United Nations database has announced an upward trend in economic relations between Algeria and the Zionist regime. This statistic contrasts with Algeria’s stance against normalization, including its criminalization two years ago.

Morocco exports food to Israel

With exports of 17.92 million dollars to Israel in 2022, Morocco ranks sixth in trade with this country. Morocco’s main export to Israel is food, Rabat has resumed diplomatic and commercial relations with the Zionist regime as part of the 2020 agreements. The data of the Abraham Peace Institute showed that Israel’s trade with Morocco increased by 8% in the last quarter of last year, from $24 million to $26 million.

Arabs behind Israel’s business: Bahrain

Finally, Bahrain’s exports to the Zionist regime reached 10.58 million dollars in 2022. The 12 thousand and 83 percent increase in Bahrain’s exports compared to 2020 has happened based on the signing of the agreement to normalize relations between Manama and Tel Aviv. Bahrain’s main exports include aluminum ($8.78 million) and iron and steel ($2.62 million). In this way, the total export of West Asian countries to Israel between 2020 and 2022 grew by about 111%.

Importing energy to the Zionist regime

The Zionist regime is heavily dependent on oil and natural gas for its electricity production. These sources constitute 80% of the total energy required. On the other hand, this regime is a large exporter of natural gas, which reached 9.4 billion cubic meters in 2022. Its details are that 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas were sent to Egypt and 2.9 billion cubic meters of gas to Jordan.

On the other hand, the Zionist regime supplies all the oil it needs through imports. It consumes approximately 220,000 barrels of oil per day. Of this amount, 62% of oil imports are from two Muslim countries, Kazakhstan (93 thousand barrels) and the Republic of Azerbaijan (45 thousand barrels). The rest is supplied from Brazil and West African countries including Gabon, Nigeria and Angola, and an unknown amount is transported illegally from Iraqi Kurdistan.

Ceyhan port in the southeast of Türkiye plays an important role in facilitating the import of more oil to the occupied territories. This port is the place to load oil from Kazakhstan and the Republic of Azerbaijan, which is transported through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Tankers also transport oil from Iraqi Kurdistan along the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the ports of Haifa and Ashkelon.

Oil tankers enter the occupied territories through the two main ports of Ashkelon with 22 tanks with a capacity of 11 million barrels and Eilat port with 16 large tanks with a capacity of about 1.4 million cubic meters of oil.

The activity of Eilat port has decreased by 85% in the midst of the increase in naval operations of the Yemeni armed forces in the Red Sea against ships bound for the occupied territories and related to the occupying regime.

Approximately 180,000 barrels of oil per day are imported to Ashkelon. From there, it is transported to the ports of Ashdod and Haifa using internal pipelines. Both ports have oil refineries with a capacity of 100,000 and 197,000 barrels per day. In addition, a pipeline connecting Ashkelon and Eilat crosses the Negev desert with a capacity of 1.2 million barrels per day.

Türkiye is the cause of bypassing Israel’s trade in the face of Yemen’s attack

Despite the growing tensions and harsh rhetoric of some countries in the region against the Zionist regime since the start of the Gaza war, commercial activities have remained largely uninterrupted. Although Turkey calls the Zionist regime a terrorist state, by helping Tel Aviv to circumvent the blockade of Yemen, increasing its overall exports to the Zionist regime, and playing a central role in the transportation of oil, it contributes a lot to the economic prosperity of the Zionist regime. .

Turkish exports during the Gaza war increased from 319.5 million dollars in November 2023 to 430.6 million dollars in December of the same year. It even surpassed the $408.3 million export in July, which was before the Al-Aqsa typhoon operation on October 7.

Exports to the Zionist regime from the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco are not surprising. These are the Arab countries that most defend regional policies that serve the interests of the occupying government.  However, the increase in trade relations between Algeria and the Zionist regime, which is contrary to the position of this country, is a sign of change in the sites behind the scenes.

To understand the real positions of governments, one must ignore the official rhetoric and examine the economic relationships in which real politics are often hidden.