According to five people with knowledge of the circumstances of the event, a conference between US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and a group of older Egyptian officials about a fortnight before turned into an unexpected shouting match between a senior adviser to the Palestinian president and the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates.
The intense conflict reflects the suspicion surrounding the Arab Authority’s planned reforms and the internal conflict between the Arab world’s leaders. Both of these could thwart the efforts of the Biden administration to create a plan for the day following the Gaza conflict.
On the eve of the World Economic Forum meet, the meeting took place on April 29 in Riyadh. A popular method for the day following the Gaza War was the focus of the meeting.  ,
In addition to Blinken, the conference was attended by the unusual ministries of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Israeli Minister Hussein as- Sheikh, who is the closest director to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
According to the options, Al-Sheikh claimed that the Palestinian Authority was implementing changes and creating a new authorities as the US and Egyptian countries had demanded, but it was not receiving sufficient political and economic assistance at the time of the meeting.
Towards the end of the meeting, the UAE’s foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, responded by saying that he had not seen any major transformation in the Palestinian Authority, the resources said.
The Emirati foreign minister claimed that top Palestinian Authority officials are “useless” and that “replacing them with one another will just lead to the same result” at the meeting.
” Why should the United Arab Emirates support the Palestinian Authority without actual reforms”? he asked.
Al-Sheikh retaliated against the Emirati foreign minister, saying no one would give the Palestinian Authority instructions on how to carry out its changes, according to the options.
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bucket Farhan tried to calm the contentious change, according to the sources, and asserted that changes take time.
But the appointment was already out of power. The Emirati secretary yelled at one another until the other got up and left the room in rage.
Ayman Safadi, the Israeli foreign minister, left the meeting and afterwards appeared with the UAE foreign minister, who thanked Blinken for being present for the incendi.
A top UAE national confirmed that the Emirati Foreign Minister expressed his views at the conference and added that the Palestinians would be in a much better position if the Palestinian Authority gave its residents the same level of consideration as it did security coordination with Israel.
Al-Sheikh and the US State Department declined to comment.
Political and personal variations
The conflict between the Palestinian Authority and the United Arab Emirates is brought on by both personal and political variations. There has been a gap for decades between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohamed al Zayed.
One of al Zayed’s closest advisers is Mohammed Dahlan, Abbas’s major political enemy, which increased Abbas’s fear of the UAE. On the other hand, Abbas and the Arab administration have long been accused of corruption in the United Arab Emirates. After the Emirates normalized ties with Israel in 2020, the Arab leadership alleged that the UAE had betrayed them.
The United Arab Emirates acted against him and told the Biden administration that he was one of Abbas ‘ partners before the visit of the new Israeli Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa.
Previous Israeli Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who is known to get a writer of Abbas, was put in by The Emirates to replace him.
