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Israel's Military Cooperation with UAE Is "Revolutionary"
(Medialine) Maya Margit - Dr. Dan Schueftan, who heads the International Graduate Program in National Security Studies at the University of Haifa, called the deployment of Israel's Barak 8 aerial defense system in the UAE "revolutionary." "For a long time, the perception of Israel was not only that it was not beneficial for powers to cooperate with Israel, but also that it could be counterproductive because Israel was so hated and isolated in the region. This has now changed in a very fundamental way." Israel's burgeoning alliance with several Arab states "makes it much easier for Israel to defend itself because before, Iran had allies on the borders of Israel and Israel had no allies on the borders of Iran. This is now changing." While Israel has refused Ukraine's requests for Iron Dome, Schueftan argued that this missile defense technology is not suitable for Ukraine. "The instruments that Israel developed are for tiny territories. There are not enough Iron Dome systems in the universe to defend a small fraction of Ukraine. Israel does not even have enough projectiles to defend itself from all the existential threats."