Trump Peace: Israel’s FM Lapid Lands In Bahrain on Landmark Trip To Open Embassy, Sign Agreements

We are reminded every day that what President Trump accomplished in the Middle East was a miracle. The tragedy is that if President Trump was still in office, the Abraham Accords would have expanded to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and other Muslim majority countries across Asia and Africa. Today, the Biden Administration has no interest in expanding the Abraham Accords. They are only interested in appeasing Iran and re-entering the JCPOA.

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Lapid lands in Bahrain on landmark trip to open embassy, sign agreements

1st visit to Gulf country by minister since diplomatic relations established; nations to confirm water, environment, sport deals; direct Manama-Tel Aviv flights launched

By TOI, September 30, 2021

MANAMA — Foreign Minister Yair Lapid landed in Bahrain on Thursday morning for the first ministerial visit to the island kingdom since relations were formally established last year.

He is set to open Israel’s embassy in Manama later in the day, and to sign agreements on water, environment and sports.

Lapid was received on the tarmac by Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani.

Israel’s top diplomat placed his hand on his heart and bowed slightly to his host, who returned the gesture.

Lapid and Zayani are slated to hold an initial meeting after the Israeli foreign minister’s COVID-19 results come through. The meeting is part of the official diplomatic dialogue the countries agreed upon in 2020.

This is not the first time the two have met, having held a meeting for the first time in Rome in June.

However, Lapid is the first foreign minister to visit Bahrain. In 1994, Environmental Affairs minister Yossi Sarid traveled to the kingdom to participate in regional talks and meet with Bahrain’s foreign minister.

The first commercial flight between Manama and Tel Aviv also took off for Israel Thursday morning shortly after Lapid landed. Passengers include the heads of Gulf Air and a Jewish chef named Alex, who owns a restaurant in Bahrain and is flying to Israel to see his mother and two sisters.

The Israeli foreign minister is accompanied on his trip by Foreign Ministry Director General Alon Ushpiz and Deputy Director General for Middle Eastern Affairs Oded Yossef.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met on Sunday in New York with both Zayani and UAE Foreign Minister Khalifa al-Marar on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Bennett told Zayani that he was looking forward to meeting with Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at some point in the future.

Earlier this month, longtime diplomat Eitan Na’eh was tapped to serve as Israel’s ambassador to Manama. The nomination of Na’eh — who is still serving as an envoy to the United Arab Emirates pending his confirmation — came on the same day that Bahraini Ambassador to Israel Khaled Yousef al-Jalahmah met Lapid in the Knesset and presented the foreign minister with his credentials.

Two weeks later, Jalahma officially presented his credentials to President Isaac Herzog, a day before the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords.

Jalahma said it was “a great honor” to be Bahrain’s first ambassador to Israel, adding that he was “confident that this historic step will lay a solid foundation for relations between our two countries, based on the values of tolerance and coexistence between peoples, beliefs, and religions.”

Since becoming foreign minister in June, Lapid has also visited the United Arab Emirates and Morocco, two countries that Israel has normalized relations with over the past year.

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