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The UAE Foreign Minister's visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is nothing short of history
Ben-Zayd's arrival at the site of Hitler's office is one of the most important normalization steps his country could take.
The Emirati minister knew that the Holocaust touched every Israeli and Jew, and wanted to use it to send a message.
In a reality where an epidemic is not raging, the event would have grabbed the headlines in the news releases
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Tuesday, 06 October 2020, 22:29
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In the video: Foreign Minister Ashkenazi and his colleagues from Germany and the United Arab Emirates visit the Holocaust memorial in Berlin (Photo: Reuters, edited by Itai Amram)
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the photos that came out of Berlin today (Tuesday).
United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah Ben-Zayed visits the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, accompanied by Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and his German counterpart, Heiko Mas - this is nothing short of history.
In another reality, in which there is no epidemic and senior Israeli government officials do not compete with each other in violating the closure guidelines, this event would also have grabbed the headlines of the new editions.
This public visit to the site of Adolf Hitler's office 75 years ago is one of the most important normalization steps the UAE could have carried out.
In a country where the memory of the Holocaust plays such a dramatic role, the images near the concrete pillars that resemble a huge cemetery touch every Israeli and every Jew.
Ben-Zayed knew this well and wanted to use this visit to send a message to Israelis and Jews all over the world.
Sources on the subject say that the foreign minister of the Emirates is the one who wanted to visit the place together with Ashkenazi, and when the emirates updated the White House and asked if this was a good idea, they received enthusiastic responses.
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No less than history.
Ben-Ziad on tour of the Holocaust memorial in Germany, today (Photo: Reuters)
The Emirate's foreign minister is one of a very short list of Arab leaders who have visited museums or monuments in memory of the Holocaust.
The first was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
During his historic visit to Israel in 1977, he arrived at Yad Vashem with then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
In January 1998, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat wanted to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, but the museum's management refused to invite him. As a replacement, Arafat visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam two months later. "I wanted to see for myself the facts about the suffering the Jews went through.
The important normalization marches that the UAE could carry out.
Foreign Ministers in Berlin, today (Photo: Reuters)
The Holocaust is a very sensitive and controversial issue in the Arab world, especially in light of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the fact that during World War II there were Arab states and leaders who supported the Nazis.
One of the prevailing perceptions in the Arab world is that the Palestinians paid the price for the fact that Western countries supported the establishment of the State of Israel because they wanted to clear their conscience regarding the Holocaust of the Jews.
In many Arab countries, the education system is not at all involved in studying the events of the Holocaust, and in some cases Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism are common in the media and in public and political discourse.
In recent years there has been a slow change in this issue in the UAE and also in Saudi Arabia.
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The Americans expressed support for the summit.
Ashkenazi, Ben-Ziad and Mas make a statement today (Photo: Reuters)
The German hosts are very pleased with the summit organized between Israel's foreign ministers and the United Arab Emirates.
To make sure Ashkenazi arrives they sent a German Air Force plane to fly him from Ben Gurion Airport to Berlin. The German foreign minister made sure to update the White House in advance on his initiative to convene the summit, making it clear he was not trying to bypass the United States. Sources close to the matter said that the Americans expressed support for and encouraged the move, and that the
Germans also informed senior Palestinian Authority officials in advance as they promoted. Senior officials in the country approached their Palestinian counterparts and asked if there was any issue they wanted Ashkenazi and Ben-Zayed bring up. To the Emirates listen and respond in the negative.
Wanted to use agreement with Emirates to resume negotiations between Israel and Palestinians. Mas (Photo: AP)
The German foreign minister stressed to Ashkenazi and Ben-Zayed that he did not want the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to push the Palestinian issue.
On the contrary, he wants to find ways to use the agreement to push for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
At the press conference in Berlin, Ashkenazi called on the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
"The more we drag it out and the longer we wait the conflict will pass on to future generations who will face a tougher reality," he said.
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