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Israeli Ambassador in UAE Says ‘Cooperation’ Is Key to Normalization, New Peace Model in Middle East as Israel Dedicates Its New Embassy

Israeli Ambassador in UAE Says ‘Cooperation’ Is Key to Normalization, New Peace Model in Middle East as Israel Dedicates Its New Embassy Read Transcript


- [Julie] New Foreign Minister Yair Lapid

is the highest ranking Israeli official

to visit the United Arab Emirates

since the signing of lastyear's peace agreement.

- This is an historic moment,

and it is a reminder that history

is created by peoplewho understand history

but are willing to change it,

people who prefer the future to the past.

- [Julie] In the capital of Abu Dhabi,

Lapid dedicated the Israeliembassy in a ceremony

that included Jewish prayer

and placing a mezuzah on the doorpost.

- Israel wants peacewith all its neighbors.

We aren't going anywhere.

The Middle East is our homeand we're here to stay.

So we call on all thecountries of the region

to recognize that to come to talk to us.

- [Julie] Lapid alsothanked leaders responsible

for bringing the AbrahamAccords to fruition,

the first peace agreement between Israel

and Arab nations in more than 25 years.

- To Israel's former primeminister, Benjamin Netanyahu,

who was the architectof the Abraham Accords

and who worked tirelesslyto bring them about.

I want to thank former USPresident Donald Trump.

- [Julie] Since the agreement's signing,

Israel has established severalhundred million dollars

worth of trade agreements with the UAE

and more than 200,000 Israelitourists have visited there.

Lapid also opened a consulatein the Emirate of Dubai.

- It's a place of life,of tourism, of business,

of dialogue between two talented peoples

who can and who want tocontribute to one another.

- [Julie] Ambassador Eitan Na'eh,

head of mission at theIsraeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi,

told CBN News the AbrahamAccords opened the way

for a different future.

- I think the Abraham Accords,

first of all, are a dream and a vision,

and now, we are down torealizing it, materializing it,

and really, rolling up our sleeves

and starting the hardwork of making it happen,

creating the new model of peace

and normalization in the Middle East

where cooperation is the key word.

- [Julie] Na'eh said it doesn't mean

there won't be challenges,

but there's a strategic decisionto build normal relations.

- Within a few weeks, we will sign

quite a few more agreements

to really cement the cooperationand the relationships

to show peoples andgovernments in the region

of what true, closerelationships look like.

- [Julie] Na'eh saidthey want other countries

in the Middle East to askthemselves, "Why not us too?"

Julie Stahl, CBN News, Jerusalem.

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