The sole Arab member of the United Nations Security Council normalised relations with Israel in 2020 but war is causing fresh divisions
Lana Nusseibeh, the permanent representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, speaks during a security council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war on Monday. Photograph: Michael M.
Emirati ambassador to the UN Lana Zaki Nusseibeh urged the council to act on last Friday’s General Assembly recommendation, supported by 121 countries that “stood up for the humanitarian imperative, for human rights, for international law and, most importantly, for the self-evident truth that Palestinian life is precious”.‘Terrorists are not born that way. They learn to hate’
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Gulf sheikhdoms did not have educated and trained personnel and relied on Palestinian teachers, administrators, economists and businessmen to fill the gaps until local people could be trained. Emirati-Palestinian relations continued to flourish after independence in1971.
The Emirates’s UN stand has been echoed around the Gulf. Oman’s foreign minister Sayyid Badr Abu Saidi condemned “Israel’s inhumane actions”. He called for exerting “political, diplomatic and legal pressure” to halt Israel’s offensive, which he said involved “killing innocent civilians, destroying their infrastructure and depriving them of water, food, fuel and medicine”.
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