While Israel made peace with Egypt in 1978 and Jordan in 1994, and cooperates closely with both countries on matters of intelligence and security, it has not managed to establish friendly relations with either. There is limited trade, and less tourism; Egyptians and Jordanian who visit Israel risk being greeted with opprobrium when they return, and their parliaments and media tend to be intensely anti-Israel, if not anti-Semitic. By contrast, American, Israeli, and Emirati leaders have stressed their hope that the normalization of relations between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi will lead to a warm peace—a “peace between peoples” rather than merely governments. Jeremy Sharon reports on one bit of evidence that this might be true:
The emirate of Abu Dhabi has sent a message to all hotels in its territory saying that they should provide kosher food options to their visitors, in the expectation of a surge in Israeli and Jewish visitors following the pending normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. In a message sent to hotels in the emirate on Tuesday, the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism said that hotels were “advised” to adopt the measure to guarantee that all visitors are catered for.
Sarah Besnainou, an active member of the Jewish community in Abu Dhabi, welcomed the measure, saying that the tourism department was [taking] “extraordinary steps to welcome Jews and Israelis,” following the recent agreement to normalize relations between Israel and the UAE.
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