The diplomatic advisor to the president of the United Arab Emirates said today that the US must press for an end to the Israel-Hamas war and that a new process must be found in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the US will be branded ineffective.

Anwar Gargas also said that the Israeli policy of containment, which has been the “hallmark” of the Palestinian issue for the past two decades, has failed and called for a new approach that would also discuss the issue of refugees, borders and East Jerusalem.

“American involvement will be determined by when we end this war, the sooner the better, and whether we can have another kind of process in solving the problem, solving the issue“, he said while addressing a policy meeting in the capital Abu Dhabi.

“If this crisis continues, and especially the humanitarian side, and if this crisis brings us back to the same point, to the old containment policy of the period before October 7, I think the American role in it will not be considered right or wrong, but it is to be considered effective“, he added.

The United Arab Emirates was the most prominent Arab state to sign the 2020 Abraham Accords, a US-brokered pact to establish diplomatic relations with Israel that did not follow decades of pan-Arab policy, which called for a Palestinian state before smoothing.

A Gulf Arab power, the UAE is one of the United States’ closest partners in the Middle East and hosts US forces. He has also pursued a more independent and assertive foreign policy over the past decade, evidenced by his ties to Israel.