New Delhi, July 28 -- By: Tarek Fatah, New Delhi Times Exclusive

UAE become the First Gulf Arab nation to open an embassy in Israel, nearly a year after both countries signed an agreement to normalise diplomatic ties.Israeli President Isaac Herzog hailed the embassy opening as "an important milestone in our journey towards the future, peace prosperity and security- important step for the entire Middle East."

Israel and the UAE announced in August 2020 that they would normalise diplomatic relations, bringing over a decade of covert ties into the open. Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco later also joined the US-brokered Abraham Accords.

The U.S.-brokered accords, which challenged a decades-old allegiance to Palestinian ambitions as a major driv...