Gideon Sa'ar meets with UAE Foreign Minister

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar met today (Sunday) with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi.

In his statement on X, Sa'ar said that "We discussed the full range of regional issues, as well as furthering bilateral relations between our countries. There are major challenges ahead of us in the Middle East, but there are partners for a better future of cooperation and stability. Thank you to our hosts!"

Relations with the UAE, Bahrain, and others have flourished since the signing of the Abraham Accords, arranged by President Donald Trump and his son in law Jared Kushner in the first Trump administration. The Accords have led to the mutual opening of embassies and increasing cooperation on a range of issues including trade and security.

Israel and the Gulf partners to the Abraham Accords have a shared enemy in the form of Iran, which seeks to eliminate the former and dominate the latter with the aid of its numerous terrorist proxies around the region and the threat of developing or perhaps deploying and even using nuclear weapons.