Before October 7, 2023 and the Hamas attack on Israel, the UAE-Israel Business Council had been posting almost daily on social media. The Council, based in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, enthusiastically told the world just how good trade relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates were, after the two countries normalized their relations in 2020 when they signed the so-called Abraham Accords.

That changed after October 2023. The Council's last post was on October 8. Since then, nothing — and the Council itself didn't respond to DW enquiries as to why they had stopped celebrating UAE-Israeli business ties. Because, despite a year of conflict, these have actually remained comparatively robust.

Leaders in countries that have trade ties with Israel, including the UAE, Jordan and Egypt, have all criticized how Israel is conducting its military campaigns in Gaza and now Lebanon.

Since the Israeli military campaign in Gaza began last October in response to the Hamas attack, over 42,000 people have been killed in the enclave, including more than 3,400 children.

After Israel began a military campaign in Lebanon last month, more than 1,300 people have been killed there.

As a result, rhetoric from Arab leaders is becoming increasingly blunt.

Jordan's foreign minister Ayman Safadi met with top US diplomat Antony Blinken this week and spoke about events in northern Gaza. "We do see ethnic cleansing taking place, and that has got to stop," Safadi said.

At a UN Security Council Meeting in mid-October, Egypt's foreign minister Badr Abdelatty told council members that Israeli actions were to blame for "an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe," in........

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