2023-04-29 15:46:10
Israel, the UAE and Bahrain signed an agreement to normalize relations in mid-September 2020 under the name “Abraham Accords”.
A Kuwaiti activist’s Twitter account, Walid Al-Mutairi, posted a video clip of him chanting “Freedom for Palestine” in front of an Israeli family at Dubai airport.
The clip spread widely on social media, and exceeded millions of views within three days.
The pioneers of social networking interacted between supporters of Al-Mutairi’s position, which is consistent with Kuwait’s position rejecting normalization, and opponents of him and his style, which they considered “terrorizing children,” as they described it.
What happened?
The clip published by Al-Mutairi does not exceed a minute, and a young woman with three children appears in it, and the man’s voice appears in the background without showing his face as he cheers for Palestine, and a picture of the tail of a plane with an Israeli flag is attached to the clip.
And the owner of the clip titled his tweet, saying: “I just wanted to help them, and I am returning from Dubai I endured to make them forget,” apparently intended to upset the members of the Israeli family pictured.
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In his responses to the commentators on the video, the account owner stated that he finished his speech in the clip by saying, “Thank you” because he tried to suppress his laughter – as he described it – because of the family’s reaction following his anger in front of them.
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Regarding his comment on the weakness of his English in the passage, Al-Mutairi stated in his response that he spoke within the limits of his capabilities, and that he was afraid of making mistakes in what he learned.
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On the other hand, the general view of the account shows its owner’s focus on blogging and talking regarding general political regional affairs, and Kuwaiti local affairs in particular, but the account owner does not appear in the main account image or other images, and the username also does not indicate his personal name. .
An Israeli response to the communication sites
Israeli journalist Eddie Cohen republished the clip, commenting on it, by asking the UAE authorities to investigate, and to prevent Al-Mutairi from entering the UAE once more. .
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The UAE is the first Arab country to exchange visa exemptions for tourists with Israel since October 2020
Cohen also demanded, in a separate tweet, access to a lawyer of Emirati nationality, and attached the tweet to a design that added the text of an Emirati law related to photographing children in public places.
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Cohen also participated in a hearing conducted by Kuwaiti journalist residing abroad, Jassem Al-Juraid, which was titled “Kuwaiti (Khamisi) terrifies an Israeli woman and her children in the Emirates.”
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“accused of extortion”
Some social media pioneers published tweets attributed to Eddie Cohen threatening to publish video clips of Al-Mutairi in his hotel room if he did not apologize.
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However, these tweets do not appear in the account of the Israeli journalist Cohen, as some of the pioneers of the communication sites accuse him of deleting the tweets at a later time.
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Talking regarding threatening Al-Mutairi and trying to blackmail him by publishing videos of him raised the concerns of some social media pioneers, and they questioned the truth regarding filming hotel guests in Dubai.
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They also demanded that this matter be investigated and that those responsible be held accountable, if true.
While others questioned the existence of espionage, and considered that this aspect carries a clear distortion of the UAE’s role and image in the region.
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In the audio room that brought him together with the journalist Al-Jareed, Cohen considered that what was published regarding filming videos in the Emirates was a lie, as he described it.
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Variation in responses
Kuwait prohibits, according to its law, normalization with the Israelis
Supporters of Al-Mutairi’s position saw in it “courage and telling the truth,” as they described it, and considered it “support for the Palestinian position” in the conflict with Israel.
The pioneers of social networking sites supporting what Al-Mutairi did cited some previous Kuwaiti positions that show its opposition to the Israelis.
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On the other hand, those who objected to the clip saw that Al-Mutairi insulted the image of Kuwait in his behavior, and that he did not respect the host country in his behavior.
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Others demanded that Al-Mutairi be prevented from entering UAE territory, and that the clip that was spread to him be investigated.
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