Why does Vox oppose peace?

In an article on anti-peace song 'Dubai,Dubai," Vox uses Qatar's tools to thrash UAE

Why would Vox’s Jonathan Guyer write an info op on the ‘Dubai,Dubai’ song that takes the side of Qatar against UAE’s peace with Israel, aka the Abraham Accords?

In his piece on the satirical Israeli song, Guyer unleashed all of Qatar’s tools to argue that public opinion in UAE opposes peace with Israel, but suppressed and therefore unheard.

But if UAE public opinion is oppressed and unheard, how could Guyer and Vox be so sure that a majority of Emiratis opposes peace with Israel? Maybe if heard, it will turn out that the UAE do support peace with Israel.

In making his case, Guyer cited “polls” conducted by the Doha Institute and a Qatari think tank in DC. He quoted a Palestinian academic whose pieces appear in Qatari papers and advertises for the Qatari DC think tank and DI.

On her Twitter feed, the Palestinian academic (specialized in authoritarianism) has nothing on authoritarianism in Qatar, Assad’s Syria, Lebanon, Iran or even in Hamas’s Gaza. Authoritarianism, to her, is only in countries that make peace with Israel.

To substantiate their claims that the song went viral, Vox and Guyer say it was picked up by media giants Al-Jazeera and Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, both funded by Qatari government. Vox even used a cartoon that insults peace and UAE’s crown prince.

The singer of ‘Dubai, Dubai,’ Noam Shuster-Eliasi, was the star of an Al-Jazeera funded documentary.

To give Vox and Guyer the benefit of the doubt, we can assume that they stepped into something they know nothing about. If I were them, I’d stay away from such issues, at least to maintain credibility as a professional media outlet, not an activist hit team.