From the Israeli captain’s emotional greeting in Arabic upon takeoff in Tel Aviv, to the warm Emirati reception on the ground in scorching Abu Dhabi, it was obvious this was no typical flight.
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Jared Kushner who is the architect of the Abraham Accord to bring peace to the Middle East. For the moment, at least, it's working.
"Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place." Isaiah 28:14-17 (KJB)
All throughout the Middle East there is a renewed sense of hope and excitement, as Israel and the UAE take the first concrete steps outlined in the Abraham Accord. Just today, El Al Airlines made the historic first flight between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and Jared Kushner was center stage through it all. How far can this thing go? Well, as I see it, today it is landing in the UAE, tomorrow it will be landing in Daniel 9:27, and that's just about how fast it all will go.
Are you ready for what comes next?
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CHRISLAM ‘ABRAHAM ACCORD’ BETWEEN ISRAEL AND UAE WAS MISSING LINK NEEDED TO LAUNCH VATICAN ABRAHAMIC FAITHS INITIATIVE
A new ‘sense of hope’: Israel-UAE flight feels like start of a bigger journey
FROM THE TIMES OF ISRAEL: Monday’s El Al flight LY971 marked the first-ever direct flight from Israel to the United Arab Emirates, placing a significant stamp on this month’s historic US-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two nations.
The journey was steeped in symbolism. US and Israeli flags adorned the tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport as Israeli music played, and the word “peace” was emblazoned in English, Hebrew and Arabic above the cockpit window of the Boeing 737. On board, the “Making History” motto featured prominently on each seat’s headrest covering and complimentary fabric bags of the “Abraham Accord Inaugural Flight” were distributed.
A special menu was prepared, highlighting touches of Middle Eastern cuisine, and the director-general of Israel’s Health Ministry even handed out a limited-edition face-mask featuring the Israeli and Emirati flags. The American diplomats on board sported a tri-country face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Prior to boarding, the deal’s mastermind, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, waxed poetic on the flight’s meaning.
“While this is a historic flight, we hope it will start an even more historic journey for the Middle East and beyond,” he said. “This is a very hopeful time and I believe that so much peace and prosperity is possible in the region and across the world.”
But only after takeoff did that take on concrete significance, as the El Al aircraft veered east toward the desert terrain rather than west over the Mediterranean Sea as it does on nearly all its outbound flights. Pilot Tal Becker proudly announced the historic moment when the El Al aircraft crossed into Saudi airspace for the first time ever, noting that the flight would now take “just” three hours and 20 minutes to Abu Dhabi, rather than the more than seven hours it would have taken to circumvent the Arabian Peninsula.
Kushner visited the traveling press corps in the back of the plane while over Saudi airspace to say it was “gracious” of the kingdom to make such an extraordinary gesture, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a recorded in-flight address over the loudspeaker noting so as well. By granting Israel access, Saudi Arabia gave a strong indication of its approval of the newfound normalization with Israel and raised hopes it could be next to take its covert relations with Israel up a notch.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said “it hurts us very much” to see the Israeli plane landing in the UAE. He noted that the plane was called “Kiryat Gat,” a southern Israeli town built where Arab villages once stood before the war surrounding Israel’s establishment in 1948.
“We would have liked to have an Emirati plane landing in liberated Jerusalem, but we live in a difficult Arab era,” Shtayyeh said.
While the Palestinians have cut off ties with the US, Kushner said the US and the “whole region” is ready to help them. “But they can’t be stuck in the past. They have to come to the table,” he said.
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