Israel is testing just how far Gulf partners will let it run amok in the region while equities and interconnects deepen. The UAE signal is the clearest: if Israel moves to annex the West Bank, Abu Dhabi is prepared to downgrade the normalization path, which could mean ambassadorial recall and visibility limits for Israeli defense firms for starters. That’s leverage, not rupture, and it’s already being floated to Washington as much as it is to Tel Aviv. The Saudi side of things is slower and more conditional. For Riyadh, any Saudi…
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