Abraham Accords
“Ultimately, without the application of sovereignty, at least in portions of Judea and Samaria, they’ll never be a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he told JNS.
Battles with high-profile Pakistani politicians aside, for most of the group, in Israel for the first time, the visit was an eye-opening experience.
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 73, was credited with helping lead Mideast cooperation in science, business, technology, academia and tourism, as well as working with the Jewish community that resides in the United Arab Emirates.
The National SCOPUS Award honors those who “demonstrate humanitarian concerns throughout their lifetime” and are distinguished by “their civic engagement, their concern to achieve peaceful coexistence among people and nations, and their work on behalf of important causes locally, nationally and internationally.”
Cooperation between Israel and the Gulf states could extend considerably to include capability-sharing, joint missile alerts and even selling Israeli air-defense systems.
While the country isn’t participating in certain regional group think right now, interest lies on the horizon. But for the immediate future, its aim is to keep its population in check.
Among the mission’s key drivers was a desire to showcase regional technology and know-how “founded on coexistence,” says former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon.
Exigent seeks to establish Jerusalem as a financial center and to advance the Abraham Accords through win-win business-to-business partnerships.
This is the third reported visit for a security Israeli delegation in six months.
The agreement, the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab country, must now be signed and ratified by both countries.
“It is our duty to build on them and widen the circle of peace—regionally and globally—through these meetings of the Abrahamic faiths to send a clear message of reconciliation, acceptance and inclusion,” said Israeli Minister of Intelligence Elazar Stern.
“There is much work to do to bring the region together—to pull the countries that are present today closer together,” said Eitan Na’eh, Israel’s ambassador to Bahrain.
