Abu Dhabi prepares to receive first flight from Tel Aviv
The peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is opening many channels of cooperation between the two states.
The spokesman of Israel's national
carrier, El Al, declared that the Israeli carrier would operate its first
commercial flight to the UAE on September 1.
He said the two states would move
ahead in the normalization of relations in the coming period.
The flight will take off from Ben
Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. It will have an Israeli delegation and some aides
of U.S. President Donald Trump, who brokered the peace deal on August 13, on
board.
An American official revealed that
Jared Kushner, who is a senior advisor to Trump, would be one of the Trump aides
to travel to Abu Dhabi on board of the El Al flight which will take off at
10:00 a.m. on August 31.
Reuters quoted the El Al spokesman
as saying that the same plane would leave Abu Dhabi for Tel Aviv on Tuesday
noon.
This will make the United Arab
Emirates the first Gulf state to have official commercial dealings with Israel.
Israel will be able to enter Abu
Dhabi and Dubai in an official manner as well. As a move, this will contribute
to bringing international investments to the two countries.
New move
Political analyst Abdel Khabir
Attallah described the first flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates
as one good step on the road of peace between the two states.
The commercial flights will boost
peace between the two countries, Attallah told The Reference.
He added that each of the two
states would benefit commercially and politically from the other.
Attallah noted that the presence of
aides of President Trump on the plane travelling from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi
gives signals about the strength relations between the UAE and the U.S. are
preparing to assume.
These relations, he said, can play
an important role in settling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.



