UAE-Israel: The Call for Peace has been answered!
The United Arab Emirates has always been keen to promote peace in different parts of the world. They’ve always centered their focus on humanitarian acts and activities that promotes life. This country has always been a center of development and they have also evidently proven this by their great response to the Covid-19 pandemic, no doubt that they can surely create a ripple of peace in the Middle East.
On September 15, the UAE and Israel will sign their landmark peace treaty in Washington D.C., known as the Abraham Accord. The UAE agreed to normal relations with Israel as part of the agreement, declared at the White House on August 13 after what officials said were 18 months of negotiations, while Israel agreed to proceed with plans to postpone its West Bank annexation. The US-brokered deal was announced on August 13 between the UAE and the Jewish state, with a group of Israeli officials landing in Abu Dhabi two weeks later to establish partnership in a number of fields. A UAE delegation was invited by the Israeli government to visit the Jewish state but no date was set, a Jerusalem official told AFP. In the midst of a pandemic, this week, the geopolitics of the world’s most unstable region took a dramatic turn, when the UAE and Israel signed an agreement to “normalize” relations, under the benign gaze of US President Donald Trump. The agreement opens up new opportunities for India to play a far greater role in the Gulf ‘s regional security and stability, where both Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem enjoy unique links with New Delhi. The barebones of the agreement allow for the establishment of daily diplomatic relations between the UAE, the rising dominant force in the Gulf, and Israel, the region’s “Incredible Hulk,” but a nation officially not on terms with most of its Arab neighbours.
The deal has been in the making for a while, the former Indian envoy to the UAE, Navdeep Suri said. In the last couple of years numerous proposals have been made. The Israeli culture minister visited Abu Dhabi and wrote a Hebrew message in the Sheik Zayed Grand Mosque guest log. That was a sign. In June, in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Yousef Al Otaiba, MBZ ‘s close advisor and UAE ambassador to Washington, wrote an oped in Hebrew proposing standardization in exchange for annexation of the shelving.
Many countries and opportunities are involved in this peace agreement and it will surely open new doors to great wonders yet unseen. Let us all be glad and answer this call for peace.
