[ April 19, 2024 ]
We are watching history being made — history of epic proportions.
Israel and Bahrain on Sunday agreed to establish formal diplomatic relations, making the small Gulf country the fourth Arab state to normalize ties with Israel.
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Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al Zayani greets the Israeli-US delegation on Oct. 18, 2020.
Story continues below advertisementThe prime minister “welcomed the first flight from Israel to Bahrain,” and said that it was a “continuation of the breakthrough toward peace,” according to an official statement.
By World Israel News Staff and AP, October 18, 2020:
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by telephone with Bahraini Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin ahead of the signing in Bahrain of seven memorandums of understanding (MOUs) between Israel and Bahrain.
Netanyahu “welcomed the signing” and said Israel and Bahrain “are making giant steps toward peace.”
The prime minister also “welcomed the first flight from Israel to Bahrain, which landed today, and said that it was a continuation of the breakthrough toward peace,” said an official statement from Netanyahu’s office.
Earlier i the day, a high-level delegation of American and Israeli officials landed in Bahrain to cement agreements to establish formal diplomatic relations between Israel and the Gulf Arab state.
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×Mnuchin and Israel’s national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabbat, led the delegations. Bahrain became just the fourth Arab country to have full diplomatic relations with Israel.
“My hope is that this visit marks another step forward on the road to a truly peaceful, secure, stable and thriving Middle East,” Bahrain’s foreign minister, Abdullatif al-Zayani, said at a welcoming ceremony at the airport.
Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates at a festive White House ceremony last month marking the “Abraham Accords,” a pair of U.S.-brokered diplomatic pacts with Israel. While the UAE’s deal with Israel formally established ties, the agreement with Bahrain was less detailed and included a mutual pledge to follow suit. Sunday’s one-day visit by the Israeli delegation aimed to complete that task.
The El Al flight landed at Bahrain International Airport on Sunday afternoon. The kingdom’s state-owned television channels did not carry the arrival live, nor did the state-run news agency announce the Israelis’ presence. Bahrain’s state-run news agency later published pictures of the arrival, acknowledging the Israeli officials were there to sign documents “establishing diplomatic relations between the kingdom of Bahrain and the state of Israel, in addition to a number of memoranda of understanding in the areas of joint cooperation.”
“Today is a great day.” Ben-Shabbat told the airport ceremony. “Another chapter in the vision of peace becomes a reality.”
Mnuchin said it was “incredible” to be on what was believed to be the first flight by Israel’s national carrier El Al to Bahrain. “The opportunities here are quite enormous, both economic, trade, investment, cultural and security between the three countries,” he said.
At Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport, U.S., Israeli and Bahraini flags festooned the tarmac before take-off. Ben-Shabbat, one of the key Israeli officials involved in negotiations with Bahrain, said the visit could “translate plans to actions and concrete agreements” with the signing of a range of deals involving finance, investment, trade, tourism, communications, technology and agriculture.
Another Israeli official said the visit would include a joint statement late Sunday formally establishing diplomatic relations, including the opening of embassies and exchanges of ambassadors in the coming months.
The decision to establish ties with Israel was rejected by the Palestinians, whose leadership has scathingly criticized both the Emirati and Bahrain moves as a betrayal and an undermining of the Arab stance that recognition of Israel should come only after Palestinians achieve an independent state of their own.
The Palestinians have severed ties with the White House. In the meantime, U.S. officials cultivated ties between Israel and Arab states.
Bahraini civil society groups and opposition figures, already targeted in a yearslong crackdown on dissent, have spoken out against normalization with Israel.
Bahraini and Israeli officials have held numerous conversations since announcing their intention to establish full ties. Sunday’s face-to-face meetings, however, are seen as another step toward normalization.
Meanwhile, Israel and the UAE have already signed a number of business, banking and intergovernmental agreements.
Bahrain and the UAE signed the agreement to normalize relations with Israel in a ceremony at the White House on Sept. 15. Egypt and Jordan are the only other two Arab states to sign diplomatic treaties with Israel, in 1979 and 1994, respectively.
The accords made public what had been a gradual strengthening of quiet ties between Israel and several Gulf states — forged in recent years over a shared concern over regional rival Iran. Other Arab countries could follow suit, with analysts and insiders pointing to Sudan, Oman and Morocco as possibilities.
The trip to Bahrain on Sunday also came as U.N. arms embargoes on Iran expired despite American objections. Bahrain, like several other Gulf Arab nations, views Iran as the most serious threat to its security in the Persian Gulf.
The Israeli delegation was slated to fly back to Tel Aviv later Sunday, while the Americans will head to the UAE before flying to Israel on Tuesday.
Last month, the first known commercial flight between the two countries brought a delegation of Israeli officials to Manama to discuss cooperation between Israel and Bahrain following the signing of an agreement to normalize ties.
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12 Comments
3 years ago
I wouldn’t trust this muslum sheikh to sell me a used car and you can bet I wouldn’t turn my back on him.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I was about to type something similar, none of these dirty Muslim bastards can be trusted. However at least it’ll piss off their fellow Arabs who are hell-bent on driving the Jews into the sea.
Divide and conquer works for me. If we can make some of them our allies, even if its fake, so long as they don’t go to war against you, then it’s better than nothing. This further isolates the Fakestinians and their terror-donations will dry up.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Bwahahahahahahaha, you’ll have to try better than that Abdullah Arseclown!
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
In the OT book of Daniel, it is foretold that in the end days, the Antichrist will ‘confirm’ a peace deal for a 7yr time.
Daniel 9:27, “Then he shall confirm a covenant (treaty) with many for one week…”, (a week is a 7yr period). This 7yr period is called the “great tribulation’, and it is divided into two 3.5yr segments. It is at the end of the first half that the true identity and nature of this Antichrist is revealed. The Jews realize that Jesus was/is their true Messiah at this point, and the ‘peace and security’ facade of the first 3.5yrs comes crashing down in a torrent of destruction worldwide.
With one prophecy after another being fulfilled in these last days, and as though all that wasn’t enough to convince the sceptic, we now have this ‘peace between enemies’ being ratified, by treaty, at unprecedented levels. And, from what I can tell, there is really little difference in this ‘Deal of the Century” from other attempts in the past. It is still a ‘two state’ deal that permits the co-existence of the Israeli state alongside her Islamic neighbors. All that hatred…all the calls for annihilation…peace, peace, peace??? Where did it all go? Where did sudden peace come from?
The nonbeliever will of course not acknowledge the hand of God in any of these events, even in spite of the prophetic record, but it almost goes without saying, that peace treaties must be in place first for them to be ‘confirmed’. There is no ‘randomness’ to this and the many other events that were all prophesied thousands of years ago and are fulfilling in abundance, yet the sceptic, the mocker, will remain unfazed by it all.
May eyes and hears be opened to receive the truth of Christ while it can still be found.
3 years ago
this seems to me a HUDNAH like Mo himself made with the Jews of his day – a 10 year truce – only to start killing his enemy after 3 years of training up additional soldiers
3 years ago
Reply to
CHANGE MY MIND
I thought it was the next day, wouldn’t put it past the fat white dwarf.
3 years ago
10 years, Muhammad said 10 years is the maximum of any treaty, why would these be any different?
3 years ago
These are some of the smartest Muslims. They can then take over Israel by other means besides war, by buying into Israeli businesses and the economy, buy property, influence local Israeli politicians, lobby for the Palestinians, etc…
3 years ago
Reply to
AncientOrthodoxEcclesia
Excellent analysis — allowing islamic petrodollars to invest in Israeli businesses is another in for islamic influence — just like across the dying atheist West.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Yes, the sharper ones of the more powerful Muslim groups will play a longer game, just as you said; ” just like across the dying atheist West”.
3 years ago
Reply to
BettyO
China though doesn’t have the resources to do much power projection, at least not yet, so they prefer to have bought and paid for politicians working for them wherever they have an economic interest, like in Africa. That’s what the Democrats have been reduced to, flunkeys ultimately of the Chinese like they were some third world grifters. But, like us, they have a Muslim problem too.
