If they can proudly embrace religious pluralism, so can others

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Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel unleashed a whirlwind that, 15 months on, has yet to subside. Israel is strong. Her encircling enemies are defeated, crippled or vulnerable. The Middle East is in flux. But the Abraham Accords on normalizing relations with Israel, which Hamas and Iran’s other proxies had hoped to sabotage with their terror attack and beyond, have not yielded to the chaos. On the contrary, the likelihood is that they will expand under Donald Trump’s renewed patronage.

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Thanks to Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi, the U.A.E. was the first Arab nation to take the bold step of signing the 2020 accords, followed by Bahrain and Morocco, and in probability, Saudi Arabia.

Pivotal as a sign of MBZ’s good faith was a courageous commitment to combatting antisemitism, notably by adding Holocaust studies to its school curriculum. In November 2022, to mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht, 91-year-old writer and Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler was invited by the U.A.E. to give personal testimony of her family’s experience before a mixed, respectful Dubai........

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