Human-To-Human Relations

In my view, anything that makes the Middle East more like the European Union and less like the Syrian civil war is a good thing. ...

I can't predict how it will all play out, but when the most technologically advanced and globalized Arab state, the U.A.E., decides to collaborate with the most technologically advanced and globalized non-Arab state in the region, Israel, I suspect new energies will get unlocked and new partnerships forged that should be good for both Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Muslim human-to-human relations.

-- Thomas L. Friedman, The Love Triangle That Spawned Trump's Mideast Peace Deal, New York Times, 15 September 2020