- [Julie] Ambassador Eiten Na'eh

is Israel's first diplomatto the United Arab Emirates.

CBN news spoke with Na'ehon a trip to Abu Dhabi

regarding the reaction of the UAE

to the recent conflict with Hamas.

- I visited a salon hereduring the Gaza campaign

and I heard things that I don't think

that Israelis had heard before.

So the whole time untilthe Abraham Accords

we only got one side,the Palestinian side.

And now for the first time

we can hear the otherside, the Israeli side.

- [Julie] Last year, Israel, the UAE,

and other Arab countriesestablished diplomatic ties

known as the Abraham Accords.

Na'eh described those ties as an effort

by what he called thepeople of tomorrow to depart

from the rocket-firingpeople of yesterday.

- It doesn't mean that thereare not that many people

who will try to challengeit, who will try to test it,

but I think that thedetermination is here.

The strategic decisionis here and we are back

to normal to build relations,to sign agreements,

to create contacts, tobuild our embassy here.

So we are continuingand that's the messages

we get from our Emirati counterparts.

- [Julie] In the lastseven months Na'eh said

Israel has been able toadvance the idea that there are

two sides to theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict.

He said the ForeignMinistry's Arabic pages

on social media had 56 millionviews in the last few days.

- The Israeli narrative, inspite of what seemed to be

the contrary, is gettingtraction in the Arab street

and I think we shouldpay attention to that.

- [Julie] One sign ofthe growing relationship

is the opening of the first-everHolocaust Memorial exhibit

in the Arabian Gulf in a museum in Dubai.

- I think it's very importantto recognize and acknowledge

and to have the compassionand to have the courage also

to acknowledge thisnegative story that happened

at that time, history of the massacre,

of ethnic cleansing, singlingone ethnicity, one religion.

This was very, very bad.

- [Julie] Na'eh as wellas the Jewish community

were invited to the opening.

- As we can see with thisexhibition is the exact opposite

of what we see in Gaza: tolerance,

the whole normalization process,a departure from the past,

from the wars and the battlesand the rockets firing.

- [Julie] The exhibit at the Crossroads

of Civilizations Museum isdesigned to raise awareness

among local Emiratis and others.

It explores the eventsleading up to the Holocaust

and includes a tribute to the Arab heroes

who defended and saved Jews.

Na'eh said it's important to recognize

that the Middle East isin a different place,

to embrace it, andnurture those relations.

Julie Stahl, CBN News,

Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.