Beyond Performative Support: How the Gulf Can Shift from Two-State Rhetoric to Real Palestinian Leverage

The UAE and Saudi Arabia have recently begun publicly positioning themselves as champions of Palestinian rights: condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide,” emphasizing Palestinian statehood, and carving out roles as rational regional leaders. Yet, much of this remains tied to the outdated, performative two-state solution — a framework Israel has already rendered impossible tchrough its explicit ambitions to annex the West Bank and maintain absolute control over Gaza.

Furthermore, their impositions surrounding African land acquisition, infrastructure control, poor worker conditions, and resource supply chains tell a different story: one of silent colonization, sovereignty erosion, and recursive dependency. As it currently stands, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are prototypes for a new model of regional imperialism: extractionism, development by displacement, the inhumane exploitation of a low-paid labour force.

But as global attention fixates on Gaza, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh have a chance to break the cycle of suppression — not in Africa, where reversing their biocidal incursions would take years — but in Palestine, where moral courage is needed now.

Dark Money in the DNC Isn’t a Scandal — It’s a Systemic Risk to Investors

The West’s centuries-long monopoly on story-based control is fracturing in real time. Investors, policymakers, and global competitors are watching U.S. institutions lose control of their own story.

International entities, China and Russia included, don’t care about surface-level squabbles. They already assumed both parties were corrupt. What they’re paying attention to is the permission slip this article represents. And trust me: they are already making plans to capitalize on the strategic implications of these cracks.

The discourse surrounding Lorenz and her critics — e.g., Elizabeth Booker Houston, A.B. Burns-Tucker, Kenneth Walden — shouldn’t register as a simple domestic partisan issue. It is a symptom of the rapid systemic disintegration I’ve been consistently illustrating since June. The fact that this is happening now, at an unprecedented rate of change, proves my model correct. The cascade of Western collapse is accelerating, and it’s rapidly translating into lost ground in market confidence.