More importantly, I believe that the agreement will be a reboot like no other and the dawn of a new era not only in foreign relations and geopolitics in the Middle East, but also in the status quo of a deep understanding and commitment between Muslims, Jews and Muslims. Christians from all over the world.
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I was one of the few Muslims in the East Hall of the White House in January when I saw President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce their agreement on a vision of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Tragically for the Palestinian people, their leaders have even refused to talk about Trump’s plan to bring peace between themselves and the Israelis. This refusal causes serious harm to the Palestinians, whose lives would be far ahead under a fair and equitable peace agreement such as that proposed through Trump and accepted through Netanyahu.
As a Muslim, I know that there is no theological or ancient explanation of why Muslims and Jews are enemies. Indeed, for much of history, Muslims and Jews have lived together in peace in many Muslim-majority countries, in what is now Israel, and also in other countries.
The cooperation that the confrontation between Israel and its neighbors, and between Jews and Muslims, makes both practical and ethical meaning.
I know that many Muslims feel the same way I do about the desire to make peace with our Jewish brothers and sisters, many remain silent on this issue to avoid complaints and threats of violence from some fellow Muslims.
I follow my mourning Muslim parents in October 1981 when they heard the news of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the brave statesman who signed the Camp David peace accords with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, negotiated through US President Jimmy Carter. in 1978. I was only thirteen, but I even knew that a wonderful guy had been taken out of the world too soon.
Sadat, a career army officer, patriot and proud Muslim who paved the way for peace with Israel. Until Thursday, Egypt and Jordan were the only Arab nations that had signed peace treaties and established diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, making the new agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates even more meaningful.
While Sadat led his country to the Yom Kippur war opposed to Israel in 1973, he wisely concluded that making peace with the Jewish state would be the greatest advantage for the Egyptian people. The resolve of THE leaders of the United Arab Emirates to follow in their footsteps is rewarding.
The cooperation that the confrontation between Israel and its neighbors, and between Jews and Muslims, makes both practical and ethical meaning.
The United Arab Emirates resolve to advance the identification of general relations with Israel is a sure sign that leaders of other Arab nations will also realize that it makes no sense to allow Palestinian parties at war with Israel to take the long term of the region hostage and call for a perpetual state of hostility to the Jewish state.
The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and the past Israeli-Palestinian peace plan are largely attributed to Jared Kushner, a senior adviser and law-end to President Trump. He and other American officials have worked hard to identify non-public friendships with Muslim leaders across the Middle East, leading me to conclude that the agreement announced Thursday will follow the status quo of relations between Israel and more of its neighbors.
It is not unexpected that the federation of seven members of the United Arab Emirates, now under the leadership of the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Commander-in-Chief of the formidable armed forces of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, has the first Muslim country to normalize relations with Israel since Egypt and Jordan did so. Their long-term courage and vision mean that Israel and the United Arab Emirates will now have embassies in their respective capitals.
Muslims will fly directly from the United Arab Emirates to Israel to pray at Islam’s third holy site: al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Israelis will visit painting and industry with the United Arab Emirates, one of the leading regions in the world. You’ll appreciate the commentary of the Shaykh Bin Zayed Mosque, explore the amazing art the region has amassed, and see the world’s largest Falcon hospital, one of my favorites, as a doctor.
Israelis and citizens of the United Arab Emirates will also meet and meet each other in a non-public way, building friendships and professional relations. The United Arab Emirates is home to some of the region’s most knowledgeable and self-reliant Muslim women, adding Major Mariam Al Mansouri, the first female fighter pilot from the United Arab Emirates, who led her country’s first airstrike opposite ISIS. I’m sure he’d get along with the Israeli army I know.
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All of us, friends of peace between Israel and the Arab and Muslim world, will have to wait now for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to follow the trail of his neighbor and best friend of the United Arab Emirates to identify normalized relations. with Israel.
It is of interest to all Muslim nations, adding the other 16 Arab nations that continue to boycott Israel, yet settle for the fact that Israel’s fashionable state exists and is here to stay.
Crown Prince Mohammed of the United Arab Emirates has long been a source of wisdom, direction and political progression in the scenes for Crown Prince Mohammed of Saudi Arabia, and the two countries have worked in combination at an incredibly complicated time.
Neighbouring countries have jointly clashed with those of the terrorist organization ISIS; intensified hostilities and open and undeclared confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran; that of the terrorist organization and Hezbollah, representative of Iran; The Syrian Civil War; and the harmful risk they face from Iran itself.
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