January 1, BETRAYAL: How Western Mobs Do Iran’s Dirty Work While Gulf Arabs Embrace Peace

Wyatt’s Take

• Iranian missiles didn’t discriminate—they hit Arabs and Jews alike across the Gulf, but Western protestors only attack synagogues and blame Jews
• The UAE proves coexistence works: rabbis walk freely through Dubai, kosher restaurants thrive, and Jewish life flourishes in a Muslim nation—exactly what Tehran fears most
• Antisemitism is Iran’s cheapest export, and useful idiots on college campuses are doing the ayatollahs’ work for free

When Iranian missiles and drones streaked across the skies of the Gulf this spring, they didn’t pause to ask who below was Arab and who was Jewish. They struck Abu Dhabi, Manama, Amman and they struck Tel Aviv.

They killed civilians in the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait who were simply going about their lives, just as they killed Israelis sheltering with their children. The regime in Tehran has never made a distinction between us.

It’s long past time the rest of the world stopped making one. Yet too many Western cities and college campuses responded to this war with a surge of hatred—not at the regime that started it, but at Jews.

Monitoring groups recorded a spike in antisemitic incidents worldwide within days of the war’s outbreak. Synagogues, Jewish schools and Jewish charities have been attacked from London to North America, with several plots traced back to fronts of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Think about what that means. The ayatollahs fire missiles at Jews in the Middle East, and their sympathizers answer by terrorizing Jews in the West.

This isn’t only immoral. It’s strategically illiterate.

Blaming Jewish communities for Iranian aggression is precisely the outcome Tehran has spent four decades engineering. Antisemitism is the regime’s favorite export, cheaper than oil and far more corrosive.

Every torched synagogue in Europe is a victory the IRGC didn’t have to pay for.

Want to see the alternative? Walk through Dubai or Abu Dhabi today, and you’ll see rabbis moving openly through hotel lobbies and souks.

You’ll find kosher restaurants, Jewish day schools and the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue standing beside a mosque and a church at the Abrahamic Family House. You’ll meet Jewish entrepreneurs and investors building companies with Emirati and even Iranian partners who live in the UAE, signing deals in Hebrew, Arabic, and English in the same afternoon.

This isn’t a public relations exercise. It’s daily life in the United Arab Emirates, and it’s the most powerful rebuttal to antisemitism anywhere on earth: a Muslim-majority nation where Jewish life, like the lives of all communities in the UAE, is not merely tolerated but welcomed, protected and celebrated.

That’s exactly why Iran targets them. The UAE is home to more than 200 nationalities, including over 300,000 Iranians and 50,000 Americans who live and thrive in this land of peace, prosperity, and coexistence.

It’s also a country leading the AI industry as if it were the oil of the future and helping Arabs reach Mars.

Tehran didn’t attack the Emirates despite their peace with everyone in the region. It attacked them because of it.

Coexistence is the one weapon the regime cannot counter because its entire ideology depends on convincing Muslims, Jews and Christians that they are eternal enemies. The Abraham Accords proved that to be a lie, and the ayatollahs have never forgiven them for it.

Here’s what the cynics predicted in 2020: that the Accords were a fair-weather arrangement that would collapse under the first real strain. The opposite has happened.

Under fire, the partnership between the Abrahamic accords has deepened. Trade continues in the billions.

The war has made their peace permanent.

So when protesters in Western capitals chant against Jews in the name of the war, any Emirati or Bahraini could tell them: you’re not standing with the people of the Middle East. The people of the Middle East are building a future with the Jewish people, as neighbors, partners and friends.

You’re standing with a dying regime that kills Arabs, Jews and Persians with equal enthusiasm and would happily watch your own societies tear themselves apart over the oldest hatred in history.

The choice before the region has never been clearer. There’s the Tehran model: missiles, militias, conspiracy and ruin.

And there’s the Abu Dhabi model: synagogues beside mosques, commerce instead of chaos and two peoples who chose each other when it would have been easier not to.

Why It Matters

While America’s college campuses burn with hate and our streets fill with Iranian-funded rage, working people in the Middle East—Muslim Arabs and Jews alike—are proving peace works better than bombs. That’s a lesson worth remembering when leftist mobs tell you who the real enemy is. The folks building businesses together in Dubai have more sense than the entitled brats tearing down American flags in Manhattan.