Zionist Foreign Minister: The Middle East is our home, we have come to stay.
At the opening ceremony of the Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi, the Israeli Foreign Minister emphasized the Israeli occupation and called West Asia and the Middle East the home of Tel Aviv and said that they would not leave it.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Israeli embassy in the United Arab Emirates, UAE Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said that the Zionist regime was “here to stay” and called on Arab countries to enter into talks with the regime.
“Israel wants peace with its neighbors, with all its neighbors,” Lapid said during the opening ceremony of the new Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi, according to the Russian network Rashtoudi.
“We are not going anywhere,” the Zionist official stressed, emphasizing the Zionist regime’s occupying positions. The Middle East (West Asia) is our home. We are here to stay. “We call on all countries in the region to recognize this issue and come to us for talks.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid left for the United Arab Emirates yesterday for an unprecedented visit to open the embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Consulate General in Dubai.
In September 2020, the UAE, through the mediation of the then US administration led by Donald Trump, signed a compromise agreement with the occupying regime in Jerusalem called the “Abraham Accords” and formally established diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, after which it signed several cooperation agreements with Israel.
In addition to the UAE, Morocco and Sudan formally established diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime through the mediation of Trump and the signing of the Abraham Agreement.
Lapid’s visit, however, comes just weeks after a new government in Israel was formed in a power-sharing deal that named the ideologically hawkish, right-wing Naftali Bennett as Israel’s prime minister.
His visit also comes less than six weeks after emotions ran high across the Middle East amid Israel’s 11-day war in the Gaza Strip that killed 254 Palestinians, including dozens of children. In Israel, 13 people died as a result of the conflict.
Lapid told diplomats gathered at the official opening of the Israeli Embassy in Abu Dhabi that the moment represented “the right to determine our fate by ourselves.” Israel, he said, isn’t going anywhere.
“The Middle East is our home. We’re here to stay. We call on all the countries of the region to recognize that. And to come to talk to us,” he said, according to the speech released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
