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Today, Tuesday (December 1, 2020), the first Israeli commercial flight to the United Arab Emirates took off from Ben Gurion International Airport on its way to Dubai.
“Another historic day in the Middle East, when the first Israeli airliner took off for Dubai,” wrote Ophir Gendelman, spokesman for the Israeli prime minister, on his Twitter account. “The first Emirati commercial flight to Israel landed here last Thursday.”
Gendelman concluded his tweet by saying, “Direct flights bring us closer to each other.”
According to Israeli press reports, the Israeli airline, Israir, feared being forced to cancel the flight due to Saudi Arabia does not agree to use its airspace.
AFP / WB (AFP, Reuters, DPA)
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Declaration of incorporation and recognition
On May 14, 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. The United States was the first to support and recognize that country, and the flag of the new nation was raised in front of the United Nations building in New York. The establishment of Israel widened the door to the “Middle East conflict.”
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
“Promised land”
Jews are the largest component of Israeli society. Today, the population of the Jewish state is more than 8.5 million. The Jews call their current home “the promised land” because they believe that God promised and promised Abraham that this land would be for his descendants and that it would be the land to which the Jews would return.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
The nakba
“Independence Day” for the Israelis is the memory of the “nakba” for the Palestinians. Due to the 1948 war, many Palestinians lost their homes and their livelihoods. An estimated 700,000 Palestinians left their country at that time, and today they are called Palestinian refugees.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
War of the six days
There were many wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors. On June 5, 1967, a new war broke out between the Hebrew state and between Egypt, Syria and Jordan, to be the third in the series of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But it quickly ended with an Israeli victory and the seizure of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Sinai and the Golan Heights.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Refugees in neighboring countries, in the West Bank and Gaza
The number of Palestinian refugees today is estimated at about 5 million Palestinian refugees. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Palestinian refugees are in 58 camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. . The word “refugee” is applied to those who left Palestine after the 1948 catastrophe, while “displaced persons” are said to refer to those who left Palestine after the 1967 “setback.”
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Bad conditions
Palestinian refugees live in harsh social and economic conditions in the camps. UNRWA revealed in its reports about the miserable conditions of these people, which are generally characterized by poverty, dense population and cramped living conditions. In addition to inadequate infrastructure such as streets and sewers. It should be noted that the Palestinian refugees in these camps do not “own” the land on which their dwelling is built, while they can “use” the land for residential purposes.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
لماذا أنوروا؟
UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Work to help, protect and support them, until a solution to their suffering is found. The agency allocates schools, health clinics and distribution centers inside and outside the camps. The agency was established by Resolution No. 302 (IV) of the United Nations General Assembly.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Fourth war
On October 6, 1973, the Egyptian and Syrian armies launched a surprise attack on Israeli forces stationed in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. The Egyptian army achieved its objective of the war by crossing the Suez Canal, destroying the Bar-Lev Line and taking defensive positions. The war officially ended at the end of October 24 with the ceasefire agreement signed between the Arab and Israeli parties.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Egypt opens the door
On November 19, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat surprised the world with his visit to Israel, launching arduous US-sponsored peace negotiations that culminated in September 1978 with the signing of the Camp David Accords, a Those that followed the signing of the peace treaty on March 26, 1979. The treaty ended a state of war and Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula. Peace was not supported in the Arab world, as the Arabs at the time considered it a “betrayal” of the Palestinians.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
The Oslo Agreement
After months of secret negotiations parallel to the peace process that began in Madrid in 1991, on September 13, 1993, on the White House lawn, the Oslo Accords were signed, which was a declaration of principles on self-government agreements. for the transition. Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres received Nobel Peace Prizes. But the treaty was rejected by Palestinian factions. Many rounds have been carried out to complete the peace that faltered with the outbreak of the second intifada.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Treaty of Wadi Araba
On October 26, 1994, under the auspices of US President Bill Clinton, the President of Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty between them. The Wadi Araba treaty formally ended decades of war, but it has yet to gain popular legitimacy in Jordan today. In the eyes of the largest segment of Jordanians, more than half of whom are Palestinians, Israel remains an “enemy.” Under the treaty, Jordan retained its right to supervise religious affairs in Jerusalem.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Right of return
The right of return is a dream of most Palestinian refugees. And the Palestinians, especially after the Oslo agreement, resorted to the formation of committees and institutions with the aim of preserving the refugee issue and defending the right of return.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Emirates and the Hebrew state announce full normalization
The United Arab Emirates and Israel have reached a “historic peace agreement,” according to President Trump, who said they will soon hold meetings to conclude several agreements. The United Arab Emirates is the first Gulf country to announce full normalization with Israel. Mohammed bin Zayed announced in a tweet that, in contact with Trump and Netanyahu, “an agreement has been reached to stop the annexation of Palestinian lands by Israel. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied that the Annexation plan was “postponed” but “not canceled”.
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The Abrahamic Agreement … the last link on a stagnant path of war and peace
Bahrain joins the Emirates
A month after the Israeli-Emirati declaration, Bahrain joined the two countries and Benjamin Netanyahu signed a peace agreement with the UAE’s foreign ministers, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Bahraini Abd al- Latif al-Zayani. It is believed that Bahrain will not be the last, and that there are Arab countries that can unite, in a new indication that an official end to the Arab-Israeli conflict will soon turn into a Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but there are countries in the region that will not. they will change positions, like Iran.
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