After years of quietly absorbing what it regards as destabilizing provocations, Algeria has formally severed diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and closed its airspace to Emirati military aircraft — a rupture that places two competing visions of Arab identity and regional order in open confrontation. Algiers frames the break not as an act of aggression but as the exhaustion of patience, the point at which accumulated grievances over Libya, Sudan, the Sahel, and the normalization of ties with Israel could no longer be absorbed in the name of Arab unity. The decision reveals how deepl