; Whereas in 2015, Israel opened a diplomatic-level mission to the International Renewable Energy Agency in Abu Dhabi, UAE; Whereas in 2018, after an Israeli athlete won first place in an international judo tournament in Abu Dhabi, the Israeli national anthem publicly played for the first time in the UAE; Whereas in 2019, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, proclaimed the year 2019 to be The Year of Tolerance in the UAE, and during 2019, the UAE announced the construction of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, which will house a mosque, a church, and a synagogue and the appointment of the first chief rabbi of the UAE; Whereas the UAE is set to host the World Expo in 2021, and in 2019 event organizers in Dubai invited Israel to participate; Whereas in 2009, Bahrain’s crown prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa urged Arab countries to move toward real peace now by consulting and educating our people and by reaching out to the Israeli public to highlight the benefits of a genuine peace. ; Whereas when former president Shimon Peres died in 2016, Bahrain was the only Gulf country to publicly mourn his death; Whereas in 2018, then Foreign Minister of Bahrain Khaled bin Ahmed al Khalifa tweeted in Arabic that Israel has the right to defend itself and said, we do believe that Israel is a country to stay, and we want a better relation with it, and we want peace with it. ; Whereas in order to ensure the sustainability of state-to-state normalization, the agreements should be followed by greater people-to-people normalization; and Whereas in 2008, Congress enacted legislation ( Public Law 110–429 ) amending the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) to require that any certification to Congress relating to a proposed United States arms sale to any country in the Middle East other than Israel must include a determination that the sale or export of such would not adversely affect Israel's qualitative military edge over military threats to Israel : Now, therefore, be it