Is the UAE ready to go ‘official’ with Israel yet? An unbranded Emirati plane landing at Tel Aviv airport suggests yes and no
The Emirati side, however, were careful to frame the flight not in terms of their relationship with Israel, but instead as humanitarian help to Palestinians.
The optics don’t get any better within the Arab and Muslim world as the flight came just days after Palestinians marked 72 years since the mass displacement of Palestinians from their ancestral lands in 1948, known as ‘the nakba’ or ‘catastrophe’. “ would easily argue that medical aid to combat Covid-19 trumps any concerns about the annexation plans, which the Emirati foreign ministry has condemned,” Abdulrazaq told TRT World.
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