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An unarmed U.S. "Shadow" drone is pictured in flight in this undated file photograph, released on 5 January 2011. (Photo: REUTERS - AAI Corporation - Handout - Files) January 15, 2012 A UAE attempt to buy Israeli drones is "shameful", a leading BDS activist told Al-Akhbar. "The UAE establishment was caught several times normalizing relations with Israel, in sports, in diamonds, in retail, and even in academia, but this is by far the worst instance of this shameful normalization," said Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and co-founder of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.