A recent image has been circulated that portrays two women and a man dressed in traditional Arab attire holding Israeli flags, suggesting that Arabs continue to support Israel during the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Verified accounts on twitter, including @raviagrawal3 claimed that the picture of two women and a man in Arab attire shows the Arabs supporting Israel in the current war. The archive can be read from above.
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— Izlamic Terrorist (@raviagrawal3) February 16, 2024
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What is the Actual Truth About this Incident? : Fact
The same photo was discovered on a November 2020 Facebook post from an Israeli user. According to the Facebook post, this picture shows Arab Muslims in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, holding the Israeli flag. This photo was taken at the White House to commemorate the normalisation agreements between Israel and two Arab nations, when Benjamin Netanyahu joined the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Hananya Naftali posted about this in a Facebook post on Nov 16, 2020.
@netanyahu shared the photo from Dubai on Oct 7, 2020.
תמונה מרגשת מדובאי — שלום תמורת שלום יוצר חברים חדשים במזרח התיכון. 🇮🇱🇦🇪 pic.twitter.com/hzuaWemp3I
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) October 6, 2020
We visited CNN, which published an article on this incident on September 15, 2020 with the headline “READ: Full text of the Abraham Accords and agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates/Bahrain”.
D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) February 17, 2024
ANALYSIS: Distorted
FACT:An image that features two women and a man in Arab traditional attire holding Israeli flags has been shared as a recent image & is being projected as Arab people supporting Israel in the present time even after the ongoing #IsraelPalestineWar .(1/3) pic.twitter.com/RSTBfKvRCD
Intent:
Propagandists are circulating old images to set their narrative over ongoing war. An image that features two women and a man in Arab traditional attire holding Israeli flags has been shared as a recent image & is being projected as Arab people supporting Israel in the present time even after the ongoing Israel Palestine War. The same photo was discovered on an Israeli Facebook account that was posted in November 2020. This photo shows Arab Muslims in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, holding the Israeli flag, according to the Facebook post. Benjamin Netanyahu took this photo at the White House to commemorate the normalisation agreements between Israel and two Arab nations, along with the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Conclusion:
Claim : A recent image that shows two women and a man dressed in traditional Arab attire holding Israeli flags has gone viral and is being used to suggest that Arabs still support Israel today, despite the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Fact : We found the same image on an Israeli Facebook account uploaded in November 2020. As per the Facebook post, this image features Arab Muslims holding the flag of Israel in Dubai, UAE. This picture resulted from Benjamin Netanyahu joining the foreign ministers of the UAE and Bahrain at the White House to mark normalization agreements between Israel & 2 Arab countries.
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