Good news! Blessed are the peacemakers! The Abraham Accords keep on giving! Hopefully, more to come!
This UAE ambassador Mohamed Al Khaja (born 1980) sounds very optimistic! He is well educated in the U.S. and in Vienna, Austria.
"... On that momentous day [signing of the Abraham Accords on 9/20/2020], Emirati, Bahraini and Israeli leadership signed a commitment to create a new Middle East based on peace and a sustainable economy for the whole region. We are all dedicated to creating this future for our children so that they grow up knowing that peace is the solution to fixing problems and creating opportunities. Instead of looking at the Middle East through the lens of regional security threats – as generations before us did – we must look at it through the lens of opportunity and empowering our youth so that this relationship becomes impenetrable. ...
Recently, we opened our embassy in Tel Aviv and Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid visited Abu Dhabi where he inaugurated Israel’s new embassy. ...
I have been living in Israel for nearly six months and during this time, I have developed relationships with many Israelis – including Arabs – who are very supportive of the vision we are trying to build. They continue to introduce me to others who are equally as committed. I have welcomed many to our new embassy and some visitors remark how unbelievable it is to have an ambassador from the Arabian Gulf in Tel Aviv. ...
If we look back at our joint heritage, we can learn from our Golden Age where we – Muslims, Jews and Christians and other ethnicities – worked together to set the foundation for arts and culture, sociology, medicine, astrology, chemistry, engineering and more. We did this all before there was racism and hate thrown into the mix. We brought together our greatest minds to create opportunity and we must work together and do that again. ...
The only way to achieve this is to look forward, not backward, and for us to focus on the opportunities that are ahead [Here the ambassador contradicts himself a little bit, see above]. ..."
Recently, we opened our embassy in Tel Aviv and Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid visited Abu Dhabi where he inaugurated Israel’s new embassy. ...
I have been living in Israel for nearly six months and during this time, I have developed relationships with many Israelis – including Arabs – who are very supportive of the vision we are trying to build. They continue to introduce me to others who are equally as committed. I have welcomed many to our new embassy and some visitors remark how unbelievable it is to have an ambassador from the Arabian Gulf in Tel Aviv. ...
If we look back at our joint heritage, we can learn from our Golden Age where we – Muslims, Jews and Christians and other ethnicities – worked together to set the foundation for arts and culture, sociology, medicine, astrology, chemistry, engineering and more. We did this all before there was racism and hate thrown into the mix. We brought together our greatest minds to create opportunity and we must work together and do that again. ...
The only way to achieve this is to look forward, not backward, and for us to focus on the opportunities that are ahead [Here the ambassador contradicts himself a little bit, see above]. ..."
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