Israel’s Post-Gaza Plan: The CVE-Driven, Pro-Israeli “Abrahamic Family House”

This is the second article in a special Ramadan series. The series is aimed at uncovering the ideological component to the post-Gaza plan based on UAE’s approach to deforming Islam and forcing an Israel-friendly secularism through the patriarchal figure of Abraham. The first part can be accessed here: Israel’s Post-Gaza Plan: “Denazification” as a Code for De-Islamisation.

Our previous article established how the Zionist entity is using UAE’s de-Islamisation agenda as inspiration for its so-called “denazification” policy.

This piece will shed light on this agenda by briefly outlining the current strategy before detailing its provenance.

Revisiting the Abraham Accords

The current iteration of UAE’s ideological war on Islam is inextricably linked to the Abraham Accords.

In 2020, UAE spearheaded “peace” agreements — the Abraham Accords — with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco in normalising diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations with Israel. UAE sold the deal to the Arabs as a “peace accord” requiring Israel to halt the annexation of Palestinian territories. In reality, with expanding settlements, this provision was a sham designed to placate widespread Muslim outrage whilst allowing Netanyahu to pursue the Greater Israel expansion.

The Accords represent a vital plank in Israel’s strategy to efface Palestine and its inhabitants and build a temple of Masjid Al-Aqsa. Netanyahu has cited the agreements as a watershed moment for the Zionist entity. Chief Israel cheerleader and neocon hate preacher Douglas Murray has declared them an “enormous success.” At the same time, even Jordan Peterson succumbed to playing the role of a bargain basement salesman for the Zionists, peddling the Accords to Muslims.

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For MbZ to freely knife the Islamic world via the Abraham Accords and effectively mind-control Muslims, there’s a crucial need for an ideological cornerstone revolving around a shared, age-old patriarchal figure.

Enter Netanyahu and his band of Zionist schemers, eagerly eyeing this ideological leverage against Muslims.

As we shall now see, this strategic limb has been meticulously cultivated over time through the ruse of Countering Violent Extremism Agenda.

Abrahamic Family House

In February 2019, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula in a highly publicised visit to Abu Dhabi, where he was welcomed by MbZ himself. During this visit, on February 4^th, the Pope participated in a meeting held by the UAE-based Muslim Council of Elders (MCE) headed by the Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb in the Zayed Mosque.

Together they signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together. The following day, MbZ announced the construction of the Abrahamic Family House to commemorate the event.

We will scrutinise the document and address the implications of the composition of the Abrahamic Family House in the next instalment of the series of articles, in sha’ Allah. Here, we elaborate on the organisations that shaped the achievement of these milestone events.

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Countering Violent Extremism

The involvement of MCE places these series of events in the context of the discredited neocon-framed Countering Violence Extremism (CVE) framework. Since 9/11, CVE has been the choice policy to suppress the Islamic revival and engineer a Westernised so-called “moderate” Islam. Whilst UAE adopted the framework in the early phase of the War on Terror, it accelerated and proliferated it through the discourse of “moderation,” “tolerance,” and “interfaith coexistence” following the Arab Spring. The CVE framework operated as a tool to peace-wash and even legitimate the UAE’s authoritarian police state, its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, its murderous foreign policy interventions, and its current “peaceful” oversight of the Palestinian genocide.

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The MCE is a project of the Abu Dhabi-based Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS). Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah is the president and moderator of the Peace Forum (Hamza Yusuf is its vice president) and is also a council member of the MCE.

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Relevant here is the Abu Dhabi-based Hedayah, the International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism. As detailed in a previous article, Hedayah was born from the Global Counterterrorism Forum on Countering Violent Extremism spearheaded by the UK and UAE. Intriguingly, UAE first participated in the Forum during the Arab Spring of 2011. Despite the pressing social concerns prevalent among Muslims during this era, the UK set the focus of the global CVE agenda as “a battle of ideas,” whilst the neoconservative, pro-Israel Institute for Strategic Dialogue also influenced the thinking. At the helm of Hedayah was Maqsoud Kruse, serving as its executive director.

In a journal article outlining the various models of CVE that Muslims in the Islamic world are currently subjected to, Kruse explains that both the FPPMS and MCE represent one “axiom” in UAE’s multi-pronged CVE policy. Underpinned by the flawed notion that ideology is the primary cause of political violence, this axiom effectively operates as a propaganda arm to promote a “culture of moderation” and “peace” through “alternative narratives” to surface the “true nature of Islam.”[1] In other words, a new version of Islam that is based entirely on Western sensibilities and the recognition of Israeli aspirations concerning the site of Masjid al-Aqsa.

Of course, what is omitted in these tools-for-autocrats is that these fora, under the feel-good words of peace and moderation, also double up as vehicles for normalising relations with Zionists.