Kashrut in the United Arab Emirates Is a Sign of a Warm Peace

While Israel made peace with Egypt in 1978 and Jordan in 1994, and cooperates closely with both countries on matters of intelligence and security, it has not managed to establish friendly relations with either. There is limited trade, and less tourism; Egyptians and Jordanian who visit Israel risk being greeted with opprobrium when they return, and their parliaments and media tend to be intensely anti-Israel, if not anti-Semitic. By contrast, American, Israeli, and Emirati leaders have stressed their hope that the normalization of relations between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi will lead to a warm peace—a “peace between peoples” rather than merely governments. Jeremy Sharon reports on one bit of evidence that this might be true: